Barh is a sub division of Patna District. It 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 the Patna division. The Patna district is divided into 6 Subdivisio ...

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

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.

Administration

The Barh sub-division (

Tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

) is headed by an IAS or state Civil service officer of the rank of

Sub-Divisional Magistrate A sub-divisional magistrate, also known as assistant collector, sub collector, revenue divisional officer, or assistant commissioner, is the administrative head of a sub-division in an Indian district, exercising executive, revenue, and magist ...

(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 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 amount o ...

# Belchi # Ghoswari # Pandarak # Bakhtiarpur # Barh

Politics

Barh is a part of the Barh Assembly constituency under the Munger Lok Sabha constituency. 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 (; 17 July 1458 – 21 November 1517), born Nizam Khan () also known as Sikandar II, was 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 ...

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 t ...

was made between the

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...

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

Mughal period The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of pre ...

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

Sher Shah Suri Sher Shah Suri (born Farid al-Din Khan; 1472 or 1486 – 22 May 1545), also known by his title Sultan Adil (), was the ruler of Bihar from 1530 to 1540, and Sultan of Hindustan from 1540 until his death in 1545. He defeated the Mughal Empire, ...

Rennell's Survey

In 1776,

James Rennell Major (United Kingdom), Major James Rennell (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as a ...

, 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 plague. 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, is an Indian central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the ownership of the Ministry of Power and the Government of India, who is engaged in the generation of electricit ...

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 poet, writer and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 ...

, 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: * Sadikpur * saksohra * Agwanpur * Ranabigha * Berhana East * Berhana West * Bhatgawn * Dhanwan Mobarakpur * Ekdanga * Ibrahimpur * Nadawan * Naruada * Rahimpur Rupas * Rangbigha * Sarkatti Saidpur * Shohari * Achuara * DAHAUR

References

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