GONDA, a town and district of British India, in the Fyzabad division of the United Provinces. Pop. (1931) 17,450. The district of Gonda has an area of 2,842 sq.m. It consists of an alluvial plain with very slight undulations, studded with groves of mango trees, and divided into three belts known as the tarat or swampy tract, the uparhar or uplands, and the tarhar or wet lowlands, all three being fertile and closely tilled. Several rivers flow through the district, but only two, the Gogra and Rapti, are of any importance. On the outbreak of the Mutiny, the raja of Gonda, after honourably escorting the government treasure to Fyzabad, joined the rebels. His estates, along with those of the rani of Tulsipur, were confiscated, and conferred as rewards upon the maharajas of Balrampur and Ajodhya, who had remained loyal. In 193 i the population was 1,5 76,003.