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from Afghānistān (1647.) The fort of Shāhābād, 20 miles south of it, was built some years later. A smaller place, Umrpur, about 10 miles north-west of Shāhjahānpur, was founded by a Yusufzāi Pathān. The Afghān settlements in this easternmost tract did not form a compact dominion obeying one great chieftain who might have united and led the colonists on to greater power or welded the area into a self-contained district by his possession of the whole of it. It was a mosaic of colonies standing in isolation from one another. From this cause as well as their geographical position, the Afghāns of this tract did not share the fortunes and policy of their brethren further west, but usually gravitated to the politics of the dynasty of Oudh on their eastern border.