Basti Town

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Basti Town

Head-quarters of Basti District and tahsil, United Provinces, situated in 26° 47' N. and 82° 43' E., on the Bengal and North-Western Railway and on the Gorakhpur-Fyzabad road. Popula- tion (1901), 14,761. The town became the residence of a local Raja in the seventeenth century, but was never of importance. For some time before the Mutiny it was the site of an opium storehouse and treasury, and in 1865 it became the head-quarters of a new District. Basti consists of the old village, in which the Raja's fort is situated, a new bazar which has sprung up on the road south of this, and the civil station. It is the head-quarters of the Church Missionary Society in the District, which maintains the high school ; and besides the usual offices there is a dispensary. The town is administered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of about Rs. 4,000. There is little trade. Two schools for boys contain 330 pupils, and a small girls' school has an attendance of 15.