page_title: Barabanki district
section_title: Medieval India
hierarchical_section_title: Barabanki district / History / Medieval India
caption_attribution_description: English: Shia Muslims take out a Ta'ziya procession on day of Ashura in Barabanki, India, Jan, 2009. Muharram is a month of mourning when Shia Muslims recall the seventh-century death of Imam Hussain, grandson of Prophet Mohammad.
context_page_description: Barabanki district is one of the four districts of Faizabad division, in the central Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, India. It has a population of 2,673,581, with a population density of 686.50 per square kilometre. Barabanki city is the district headquarters.
  Barabanki district is situated between 27°19′ and 26°30′ north latitude, and 80°05′ and 81°51′ east longitude; it runs in a south-easterly direction, confined by the nearly parallel streams of the Ghaghara and Gomti. The extreme length of the district from east to west may be taken at 92 km, and the extreme breadth at 93 km; the total area is about 3,900 km². It borders seven other districts of Uttar Pradesh. With its most northern point it shares borders with the Sitapur district, while its north-eastern boundary is defined by the Ghagra, beyond which lie the districts of Bahraich district and Gonda district. Its eastern border is shared with Faizabad district, and the Gomti forms a natural boundary to the south, dividing it from the Sultanpur district. On the west, it adjoins the Lucknow district.
  In 1856, the district came, with the rest of Oudh State, under British rule.
context_section_description: Muslims made their first permanent settlement in what is now the district at Satrikh, in 1030 AD (421 AH). The Muslim conquest saw Sihali conquered and its sovereign killed, as with Kintur. Bhar chief Sohil Deo (or Sohel Dal) of Sahet-Mahet and Rathor monarch Sri Chandradeo of Kannauj fought a battle in Satrikh village of the district.
  In 1049 AD (441 AH), the kings of Kanauj and Manikpur were defeated and driven from Oudh by Qutub-ud-din of Medina. The Muslim invasion was more successful in Bara Banki than elsewhere. In 1189 AD (586 AH), Sihali was conquered by Shekh Nizam-ud-din of Herat, Ansari. Zaidpur was occupied by them in 636 AH, when Sayyad Abd-ul-Wahid turned out the Bhar-pasi, changing the name of the town from Suhalpur. The colony of Musalman Bhattis is reported to have arrived about the same time, although some place it as early as 1199 AD (596 AH). They came from Bhatnair or Bhattiana, in the Punjab and Rajputana and settled at Mawai Maholara.
  From 1350 to about 1750 AD, Muslim immigrants settled in great number in the district. The Muslims first permanently settled in Oudh.
  Rudauli was occupied c. 700 AH, in the reign of Alla-ud-din Khilji, whose forces had destroyed nearly every remaining seat of Chhattri power. Rasulpur was conquered about 1350 AD. Daryabad was founded about 1444 AD by Dariab Khan Subahdar and his brother Fateh Khan colonized. Fatehpur. The villages of Barauli and Barai, near Rudauli, were occupied and became large estates until about the middle of the fifteenth century.
  Simultaneously, however, with this latter immigration of the Muslims, there was one of Chhattris. The mysterious tribe of Kalhans, which numbers some twenty thousand persons, are said to be descended from Achal Singh, who came in as a soldier of fortune with Dariab Khan about 1450 AD. Singh had large properties, with a possible capital at Bado Sarai on the old bank of the Ghagra.
  The wars had by then shifted to fighting between Muslim princes, with Hindu soldiers employed. The battleground was the Oudh borderland between Sharqis of Jaunpur (where Ibrahim Shah Shargi reigned) and the Lodis of Delhi. Dariab Khan settled Hindu soldiers as garrisons. Oudh clans, said to have emigrated from Gujarat, included the Kalhans, the Ahban, the Pan war, the Gahlot, the Gaur, and the Bais.
  The isolated Suryavanshi estate of Haraha and the Suryavanshi Bahrelia estate of Surajpur were established by small colonies of Chhattri soldiers, who had been dismissed from service in 1877.
caption: Indian Shia Muslims take out a Ta'ziya procession on day of Ashura in Barabanki, India, Jan 2009.
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