BARA BANKI, a town and district of British India, in the Fyzabad division of the United Provinces. The town, which forms one municipality with Nawabgani, the administrative headquar ters of the district, trades in sugar and cotton.
The district has an area of 1,756 sq.m., level plain interspersed with numerous jhils or marshes. In the upper part the soil is sandy, while in the lower part it is clayey and produces finer crops. The principal rivers are the Gogra, forming the northern bound ary, and the Gumti, flowing through the middle of the district. In 1856 it came, with the rest of Oudh, under British rule. Dur ing the Sepoy war of 1857-58 the whole of the Bara Banki taluk dars joined the mutineers, but offered no serious resistance after the capture of Lucknow. In 1931 the population was The chief crops are rice, wheat, pulse and other food-grains and sugar-cane.