BARA BANKI  , a

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

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

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