About Pratapgarh District
Origin of the
District
The District that forms a part of
Faizabad Divison is named after its headquarters town Bela Pratabgarh, commonly
know as Pratapgarh. Pratap Singh, a raja of the locality who flourished between
1628-1682, fixed his headquarters at Rampur near old town of Aror. There he
built a garh (fort) and called it Pratabgarh after his own name. Subsequently
the locality around the fort came to be known as Pratapgarh. When the district
was constituted in 1858 its headquarters was established at Bela which came to
be known as Bela Pratapgarh, the name Bela presumably being derived from the
temple of Bela Bhawani on the bank of river Sai.
Location and
Boundaries
The District lies between the
paralleles of 25o34' and 26o11' north latitude and between the meridians of
81o19' and 82o27' east longitude extending for some 110 km. from west to east.
It is bounded on the north by district Sultanpur,on the south by district
Allahabad,on the east by district Jaunpur and on the west by Fatehpur and
north-east by district Rae Bareli. In the south-west the Ganga forms the
boundary of the district for about 50 km. Separating it from Fatehpur and
Allhabad and in the extreme north-east the Gomti forms the boundary for about 6
km.
Area Covered
According to The Central Statistical Organization the
district has an area of 3,730 sq. km.
Pre-History
The early history of region
covered by the present history of Pratpagarh is not with put interest. The
region was already inhabited in pre-historic age.
Archaeological Finds
Several human skeletons along
some animal bones and a number of a small stones implements, belonging probably
to the Neolithic, have been unearthed in Archaeological exploration at Sarai
Nahar in Kunda Tehsil. It is the only site in the entire valley of Ganga which
has yielded human skeleton of such an early age as also the Stone Age
implements. On the left bank of river Sai there stand a ruined "Kot"
representing a Buddhist Stupa. Town Bihar has been conjectured that the remain
are probably on an ancient Buddhist monastery which gave its name Bihar. Bihar
signifies Vihar or majesties. The name itself as Buddhist.
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