Where to Stay in Najībābād, Uttar Pradesh

What is Najībābād known for?

Nawab Najib-ud-Daula founded Najībābād in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the fort, the tomb, and the cemetery he left are all protected by the Archaeological Survey of India. Industry carries it now. The town is a working manufacturing centre with rail and national highway links, which is a different life from the Kashmir trade it was founded to catch.

What are the main landmarks in Najībābād?

Four sites here are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India. Najibabad Fort, also called the Pathargarh Fort and known locally as Sultana Daku Ka Qila, is the largest of them and was built by Najib-ud-Daula himself. His tomb and the cemetery beside it are the other two.

The fourth is a surviving portion of the works from the same Rohilla period, and together they are why an industrial town still reads as an eighteenth-century foundation.

What is the history of Najībābād?

Najib Khan Yousafzai was a Rohilla soldier who served both the Mughal Empire and the Durrani Empire, and the title Najib-ud-Daula came to him from the Mughal emperor. He founded Najībābād in 1751, at the height of a career that took him to Grand Wazir in succession to Safdarjung, and he governed Saharanpur and Dehradun from 1757 to 1770. The site was chosen for trade.

George Foster, writing in 1790, judged the ground low and swampy and unsuited to a capital, but well placed to catch the Kashmir commerce that had shifted away from Lahore and Delhi and now came through the mountains by the Lall Dong Pass. In 1857 his successor Nawab Dundu Khan rose against the British, and the estate was confiscated with a part of it given to Rampur.

Where is Najībābād?

Najībābād sits in the terai below Garhwal, a short way off the Malan River, in the northern part of Bijnor district. Bijnor itself lies south. The ground is low and was described as swampy when the town was new, which is the same flatness that now carries the rail line and the national highways through it towards the hills and back down into the Uttar Pradesh plain.

What is the climate of Najībābād?

Sitting in the terai gives Najībābād a wetter year than the plain further south, with the monsoon banking against the Garhwal hills and falling heavily here. Winters turn foggy and cold. The low ground that George Foster called swampy still holds water after the rains, and the season shapes both the farming and the road traffic through the town.

How do you get to Najībābād?

Najībābād is a junction town and easy to reach. It has its own railway station and sits on national highways running between the Uttar Pradesh plain and the hills, which is what makes it an industrial centre rather than a backwater. Bijnor lies south and is the district town.

The roads north lead into Garhwal.