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BARA BANKI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARA BANKI , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India in the See also:Fyzabad See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The town, which forms one See also:municipality with See also:Nawabganj, the administrative headquarters of the district, is 17 M. E. of See also:Lucknow by railway. The See also:population of Bara Banki alone in 1901 was 3020. There is some See also:trade in See also:sugar and See also:cotton. The district has an See also:area of 1758 sq. m. It stretches out in a level See also:plain interspersed with numerous jhils or marshes. In the upper See also:part of the district the See also:soil is sandy, while in the See also:lower part it is clayey and produces finer crops. The See also:principal livers are the See also:Gogra, forming the See also:northern boundary, and the See also:Gumti, flowing through the See also:middle of the district. In 1856 it came, with the See also:rest of Oudh, under British See also:rule. During the See also:Sepoy See also:war of 1857-1858 the whole of the Bara Banki talukdars joined the mutineers, but offered no serious resistance after the See also:capture of Lucknow. The cultivators are still, for the most part, tenantsat-will, See also:rack-rented' and See also:debt-ridden.

In 1901 the population was 1,179,323, showing an increase of 4 % in the See also:

decade. The principal crops are See also:rice, See also:wheat, See also:pulse and other See also:food-grains, sugar-See also:cane and See also:opium. Both the bordering See also:rivers are navigable; and the district is traversed by two lines of the Oudh and See also:Rohilkhand railway, with branches. Trade in agricultural produce is active.

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