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Gonda district
Gonda district is an administrative district in the Awadh region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The district headquarters is located at the city of Gonda, which also serves as the administrative centre of the Devipatan division. The district covers an area of 4,003 km2 (1,546 sq mi).
The area of present-day Gonda district lay within the ancient kingdom of Kosala, one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of early India, with Ayodhya and Shravasti as major centres. Archaeological remains associated with early Buddhism have been discovered in the region, particularly around Shravasti.[unreliable source?]
In the early medieval era, the region was ruled by the Kalachuris of Sarayupara (c. 8th–11th centuries), whose domain along the Sarayu (Ghaghara) included parts of Bahraich and Gonda. From the 12th century onward, Gonda was gradually absorbed into larger north Indian polities and became part of the administrative apparatus of the Awadh region under successive sultanates and later the Mughal Empire.
Gonda was originally part of the Nizamat of Gorakhpur. After the cession of Gorakhpur to the British in 1801 under a treaty with the Nawab of Oudh, Gonda was united administratively with Bahraich.
When Awadh was annexed in 1856 by the British, Gonda was constituted as a separate district. On 7 January 1875, a boundary settlement ceded the tract between Baghaura Tal and the Arrah River to Nepal.
The village of Chhapaiya in Gonda district is widely recognized as the birthplace of Swaminarayan (born Ghanshyam Pande in 1781). This is an established fact in local government and pilgrimage sources, though academic historical research on the early life of Swaminarayan is limited.
Gonda was involved in India’s struggle for independence. Notably, Raja Devi Bakhsh Singh escaped to Nepal during the 1857 rebellion. It is also recorded that Chandra Shekhar Azad sought refuge in the region, and Rajendra Lahiri was imprisoned and executed in Gonda Jail.[citation needed]
In independent India, the district came into the national spotlight following the 1982 Gonda Encounter, in which 13 persons were killed in a staged police encounter. In 2013, a special CBI court sentenced three policemen to death and five others to life imprisonment for their roles in the case.
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Gonda district
Gonda district is an administrative district in the Awadh region of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The district headquarters is located at the city of Gonda, which also serves as the administrative centre of the Devipatan division. The district covers an area of 4,003 km2 (1,546 sq mi).
The area of present-day Gonda district lay within the ancient kingdom of Kosala, one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of early India, with Ayodhya and Shravasti as major centres. Archaeological remains associated with early Buddhism have been discovered in the region, particularly around Shravasti.[unreliable source?]
In the early medieval era, the region was ruled by the Kalachuris of Sarayupara (c. 8th–11th centuries), whose domain along the Sarayu (Ghaghara) included parts of Bahraich and Gonda. From the 12th century onward, Gonda was gradually absorbed into larger north Indian polities and became part of the administrative apparatus of the Awadh region under successive sultanates and later the Mughal Empire.
Gonda was originally part of the Nizamat of Gorakhpur. After the cession of Gorakhpur to the British in 1801 under a treaty with the Nawab of Oudh, Gonda was united administratively with Bahraich.
When Awadh was annexed in 1856 by the British, Gonda was constituted as a separate district. On 7 January 1875, a boundary settlement ceded the tract between Baghaura Tal and the Arrah River to Nepal.
The village of Chhapaiya in Gonda district is widely recognized as the birthplace of Swaminarayan (born Ghanshyam Pande in 1781). This is an established fact in local government and pilgrimage sources, though academic historical research on the early life of Swaminarayan is limited.
Gonda was involved in India’s struggle for independence. Notably, Raja Devi Bakhsh Singh escaped to Nepal during the 1857 rebellion. It is also recorded that Chandra Shekhar Azad sought refuge in the region, and Rajendra Lahiri was imprisoned and executed in Gonda Jail.[citation needed]
In independent India, the district came into the national spotlight following the 1982 Gonda Encounter, in which 13 persons were killed in a staged police encounter. In 2013, a special CBI court sentenced three policemen to death and five others to life imprisonment for their roles in the case.