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Encyclopedia Britannica



BASTI

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 500 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BASTI , a town and
district
  of British India, in the Gorakhpur division of the United Provinces. The town, a
coll
 ,ection of villages, is on the river Kuana, 40 M. from Gorakhpur by railway. The population in 1901 was 14,761. It has no municipality. The
district
  has an area of 2792 sq. m. It stretches out in one vast marshy plain, draining towards the
south
 -
east
 , and traversed by the Rapti, Kuana, Banganga, Masdih, Jamwar, Ami and Katneihia rivers. The
tract
  lying between these streams consists of a
rich
  alluvial deposit, more or less subject to inundations, but producing good crops of
rice
 , wheat and barley. In 1901 the population was-1,846,153,showing an increase of 3 % in the decade. A railway from Gorakhpur to Gonda runs through the district, and the river Gogra is navigable. A large transit
trade
  is conducted with Nepal. The export
trade
  of the district itself is chiefly in
rice
 ,
sugar
  and other agricultural produce.


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