Budaun, a town of India, 140 miles NW. of Lucknow, giving name to a British district of the Rohilcand division of the North-west Provinces. Pop. (1891) 35,372.—The district, a level, fertile tract on the Ganges and its tributaries, contains an area of just over 2000 sq. m.; and nearly six-sevenths of its inhabitants are Hindus.
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