FARRUKHABAD, a city and district of British India in the Agra division of the United Provinces. The city is near the right bank of the Ganges, 87 m. by rail from Cawnpore. It forms a joint municipality with Fatehgarh, the civil headquarters of the district. Pop. (1931) 56,503. At Fatehgarh is the government gun-carriage factory; and other industries include cotton-printing of curtain material and the like, and the manufacture of gold lace, metal vessels and tents.
In the early part of the 18th century Mohammed Khan, gov ernor of Allahabad and later of Malwa, established a considerable state of which the present district of Farrukhabad was the nucleus, founding the city of Farrukhabad in 1714. After his death in 1743, his sons were embroiled by Safdar Jang, the nawab wazir of Oudh, with the Rohillas, and afterwards with the Mahrattas, the struggle ending by the country becoming tributary to Oudh. In 1801 the nawab wazir ceded to the British his lands in this dis trict. In 1804 the Mahrattas, under Holkar, ravaged this tract, but were utterly routed by Lord Lake at the town of Farrukhabad. During the Mutiny the titular nawab was re-instated on the throne. The English military residents took shelter in the fort, which they held until July 4 when, the fort being undermined, they endeavoured to escape by the river. One boat succeeded in reaching Cawnpore, but only to fall into the hands of Nana. Its occupants were made prisoners, and perished in the massacre of July 1o. The other boat was stopped on its progress down the river, and all those in it were captured or killed, except four who escaped. The prisoners were conveyed back to Fatehgarh, and murdered there by the nawab on July 19. The rebels were de feated in several engagements, and on Jan. 3, 1858 the English troops recaptured Fatehgarh fort. In 1931 the population was 877,392. Part of the district is watered by distributaries of the Ganges canal; tobacco, potatoes and fruit, cotton-prints, scent and saltpetre are among the principal exports.