Banda (Hindi: बांदा, Urdu: باندہ) is a city and a municipal board in Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Banda lies south of the Yamuna river in the Bundelkhand region. It is the administrative headquarters of Banda District. The town is well connected to major cities with railways and state highways. The town is near the right bank of the river Ken, 95 m. S. W. of Allahabad.
Banda was a town and district of British India, in the Allahabad division of the United Provinces. The population in 1901 was 22,565. It was formerly, but is no longer, a military cantonment.
History-:Banda district , which forms one of the districts included under the general name of Bundelkhand, has formed an arena of contention for the successive races who have struggled for the sovereignty of India. Kalinjar town, then the capital, was unsuccessfully besieged by Mahmud of Ghazni in A.D. 1023; in 1196 it was taken by Qutab-ud-din Aibak, the general of Muhammad Ghori; in 1545 by Sher Shah Suri, who, however, fell mortally wounded in the assault.
About the year 1735 the king of Kalinjar's territory, including the present district of Banda, was bequeathed to Baji Rao, the Maratha Peshwa; and from the Marathas it passed by the treaties of 1802-1803 to the East India Company. At the time of the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857, 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 April 1858. The fiscal system was remodelled, and the district has since enjoyed a greater degree of prosperity only interrupted by famine.
Baji Rao and his second wife Mastani had one son named Krishna Swami, later changed to Shamsher Bahadur after their death in 1741. It was Baji Rao's deepest desire to invest Krishna Swami with the sacred thread, as he was the son of a Chitpavan Brahmin (Baji Rao himself) and the grandson of the greatest proponent of the Pranami Panth, Maharajah Chhatrasaal. But he was strongly opposed in this mission by the orthodox lobby of Pune Brahmins; and after his death, his son Shamsher Bahadur was married off to a Muslim convert. Shamsher Bahadur's son was named Ali Bahadur who was sent off from Pune as the Nawab of Banda to rule over the lands that had been bequeathed to Baji Rao by Mastani's father, Maharajah Chhatrasaal of Bundelkhand. Ruling as a Muslim over his Hindu cousins, he was effectively deprived of his patrimony.
Places of Interest-:
- Vamdeveshwar Temple & Mount
- Kalinjar Fort
- Bhuragarh Fort
- Jama mosque,built by Nawabs
- Nawab Tank
- Ken River
- Jamia Arabia Hathaura
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