Banda

Banda is a city and a municipal board in Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Banda lies south of the Yamuna river in the Bundelkhand region. It is the regulatory central station of Banda District. The town is all around associated with real urban areas with railroads and state interstates. The town is close to the correct bank of the stream Ken, 95 km south-west of Allahabad. Banda was a town and area of British India, in the Allahabad division of the United Provinces.

The populace in 1901 was 22,565. It was in the past, yet is never again, a military cantonment. This is the easternmost locale of Bundelkhand. The division of the locale into two has been finished by part Banda region, tahsil and square insightful. Karwi and Mau Tahsils lying in the eastern and South-eastern course including the Manikpur, Mau, Pahadi, Chitrakut and Ramnagar obstructs from the present Chitrakut locale.

Banda, which frames one of the locale included under the general name of Bundelkhand, has shaped a field of conflict for the progressive races who have battled for the sway of India. Shamsher Bahadur I Krishna Rao was a Maratha leader of the domain of Banda. He was the child of Bajirao I and Mastani. He was gave to a segment of his dad's territory of Banda and Kalpi. In 1761, he and his armed force unexpected were included battled close by the Peshwa in the Third Battle of Panipat between the Marathas and Afghans.