Shahabad, a town of Oude, 80 miles NW. of Lucknow by rail, with a pop. of 18,510—only a third of what it was in the 16th century. In 1868 there was a savage riot here between Hindus and Mussulmans at the Moharram festival.
Shahabad
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 360
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