Barh is a town and one of the 6 sub-division of

Patna District Patna district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India. Patna, the capital of Bihar, is the district headquarters. The Patna district is a part of Patna division. The Patna district is divided into 6 Sub-divisions ( ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

in India. It is located on the southern bank of the

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Population

, Barh had a total population of 316,348 residents, with 162,354 males and 153,994 females. Barh had an average literacy rate of 100%.

Administration

The Barh sub-division (

Tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

) is headed by an IAS or state Civil service officer of the rank of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM).

Blocks

The Barh Tehsil is divided into 7

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s, each headed by a Block Development Officer (BDO). List of Blocks is as follows: # Athmalgola #

Mokama Mokama is a town and a municipal council in barh of Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is located east of Patna on the southern banks of the river Ganges. Mokama is the connecting town of north and south Bihar and has 2nd highest am ...

Belchi Belchhi is a historically important village in Bihar state, India. Indira Gandhi visit In 1977, Indira Gandhi was out of power. It was then that she visited Belchhi to meet with surviving victims of atrocities perpetrated there against untouc ...

# Ghoswari # Pandarak #

Bakhtiarpur Bakhtiyarpur is a town and a municipality notified area, near Patna City in Patna district in the state of Bihar, India. Bakhtiyarpur is under the Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency), and is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Bihar in Patna Dist ...

# Barh

Politics

Barh is a part of the

Barh Assembly constituency Barh Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Munger lok sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies. Barh is in the 14 assembly segments which fall under Patna di ...

under the

Munger Lok Sabha constituency Munger Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Monghyr) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. Mokama and Barh are in the 14 assembly segments which fall under Patna district. Assembly segments Pre ...

. It is also the oldest subdivision in India.

History

Peace Treaty of Barh

In 1495, after the sack of Patna,

Sikandar Lodi Sikandar Khan Lodi (died 21 November 1517), born Nizam Khan, was a Pashtun Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate between 1489 and 1517. He became ruler of the Lodi dynasty after the death of his father Bahlul Khan Lodi in July 1489. The second and most ...

advanced towards Bengal, but a

non-aggression pact A non-aggression pact or neutrality pact is a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other. Such treaties may be described by other names, such as a tr ...

was made between the

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and the Bengal armies. It was decided that the territory to the east of Barh would be controlled by Bengal's ruler, while those to the west would be controlled by the Delhi empire.

Sarai

During the

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, Barh had a large ''sarai'' with 200 rooms for travelers/traders built by

Sher Shah Suri Sher Shah Suri ( ps, شیرشاه سوری) (1472, or 1486 – 22 May 1545), born Farīd Khān ( ps, فرید خان) , was the founder of the Sur Empire in India, with its capital in Sasaram in modern-day Bihar. He standardized the silver coin ...

Rennell's Survey

In 1776,

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, also called the "Father of Indian Geography", surveyed Bengal and listed prominent destinations. Barh

Barh Railway line

On 10 November 1877, the Barh railway station was opened to the public.

Plague

Between the 1890s to 1910, Barh and Patna were afflicted by the

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. It is believed that the 1898 plague came by sea by rats aboard infected ships, though it first appeared in the British India Steam Navigation Company's wharf. The two main factors for the spread of the plague were believed to be the high presence of rats and houses with poor hygiene and bad ventilation. The population of the extended Barh subdivision decreased from 408,256 in 1891 to 365,327 in 1901 due to the plague.

''Sati'' incident

In 1928, Sampati Kuer, a young widow from Berhna village, committed ''sati'' on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. The British government suspected foul play and sentenced 10 people to prison, including her brother Murlidhar Pande, as ''sati'' was outlawed 100 years earlier by the British government.

NTPC Barh

NTPC Limited NTPC Limited, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Power, Government of India which is engaged in generation of electricity and ...

is India's largest power-generating company. The former Prime Minister of India,

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Atal Bihari Vajpayee (; 25 December 1924 – 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served three terms as the 10th prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months fr ...

, laid the foundation stone of the main plant of stage 1 of NTPC Barh Super Thermal Power Station on 6 March 1999.

List of villages

The list of villages in ''Barh''

(under Barh

) is as follows: * Agwanpur * Berhana East * Berhana West * Bhatgawn * Dhanwan Mobarakpur * Ekdanga * Ibrahimpur * Nadawan * Naruada * Rahimpur Rupas * Rangbigha * Sarkatti Saidpur * Shohari * Achuara

References

{{Patna Division Cities and towns in Patna district Neighbourhoods in Patna