Banda

Banda, chief town of a district in the North-west Provinces, India, 95 miles SW. of Allaha-bad, on the right bank of the Ken River. The town, which is straggling and ill-built, but with clean, wide streets, has 66 mosques and 161 Hindu temples. Pop. 23,071. It is a great mart for cotton.—The district of Banda contains 3061 sq. m.; its chief product being cotton. Pop. (1881) 698,608; (1891) 705,832.