BALLIA, a town and district of British India, in the Benares division of the United Provinces. The town is on the left bank of the Ganges, below the confluence of the lesser Sarju. It is really an aggregation of rural villages. Pop. (1931) , The district of Ballia, constituted in 1879, occupies an angle at the junction of Gogra and Ganges, being bordered by two districts of Bihar. It contains an area of 1,231 square miles. Owing to great pressure of population on the soil and its general productiveness, land in Ballia, for agricultural purposes merely, has a mar ket value higher than in almost any other district in the province. In 1931 the population was 913,090. The principal crops are rice, barley and other f ood grains, pulse and sugar-cane. Sugar is the only manufacture.