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BANDA , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Allahabad See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The town is near the right See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Ken, 95 m. S. W. of Allahabad. The See also:population in 1901 was 2-2,565. The town possesses 65 mosques and 168 See also:Hindu temples. It was formerly, but is no longer, a military See also:cantonment. The district is' the most barren and backward portion of the See also:province. It contains an See also:area of 3061 sq. m. In some parts it rises into irregular uplands and elevated plains, interspersed with detached rocks of See also:granite; in others it sinks into marshy lowlands, which frequently remain under See also:water during the See also:rainy See also:season. The sloping See also:country on the bank of the See also:Jumna is full of ravines. To the S.E. the See also:Vindhya See also:chain of hills takes its origin in a See also:low range not exceeding 500 ft. in height, and forming a natural boundary of the district in that direction.

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principal river of the district is the Jumna, which flows fromnorth-See also:west to See also:south-See also:east, along the N.E. boundary of the district, for 125 M. In 1901 the population was 631,058, showing a decrease of 11 % in the See also:decade, due to the effects of See also:famine. The See also:black See also:soil of the district yields crops of which the principal are See also:millet, other See also:food-grains, See also:pulse, See also:rice, See also:cotton and oil-seeds. Banda cotton enjoys a high repute in the See also:market. A See also:branch railway from Manikpur to See also:Jhansi traverses the length of the district, which is also crossed by the East See also:Indian See also:main See also:line to See also:Jubbulpore. Banda, which forms one of the districts included under the See also:general name of See also:Bundelkhand, has formed an See also:arena of contention for the successive races who have struggled for the See also:sovereignty of India. See also:Kalinjar town, then the See also:capital, was unsuccessfully besieged by Mahmud of See also:Ghazni in A.D. 1023; in 1196 it was taken by Kutab-ud-din, the general of Muhammad Ghori; in 1545 by Shere Shah, who, however, See also:fell mortally wounded in the See also:assault. About the See also:year 1735 the See also:raja of Kalinjar's territory, including the See also:present district of Banda, was bequeathed to Baji See also:Rao, the Mahratta See also:peshwa; and from the See also:Mahrattas it passed by the See also:treaties of 1802–1803 to the See also:Company. At the See also:time of the See also:Mutiny the district, which was poverty-stricken and over-taxed, joined the rebels. The town of Banda was recovered by General Whitlock on the 20th of See also:April 1858. The fiscal See also:system was remodelled, and the district has since enjoyed a greater degree of prosperity only interrupted by famine.

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