ARRAN, a town of British India, headquarters of Shahabad district, in the Patna division of Bihar and Orissa. Pop. (1931) 48,922. Arrah is famous for an incident in the Mutiny, when 15 Englishmen and Eurasians, with 5o Sikhs, defended a small building against 2,000 Sepoys and a body of armed insurgents, perhaps four times that number, under Kuav Singh. A British relief force from Dinapur was disastrously repulsed; but they were ultimately rescued, after eight days' fighting, by a small force under Maj. (afterwards Sir) Vincent Eyre.