Gonda district
| गोण्डा जनपद Gonda district | |
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| District of Uttar Pradesh | |
 Location of गोण्डा जनपद Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh |
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| Country | India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Administrative division | Devipatan |
| Headquarters | Gonda, Uttar Pradesh |
| Tehsils | 4 |
| Government | |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | Gonda, Kaiser ganj(partial) |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 58.71% |
| • Sex ratio | 921 |
| Major highways | 1 |
| Website | Official website |
Gonda is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The city of Gonda is the district headquarters, and also the administrative centre for the Devipatan Division.
With an area of 3,404 square kilometres (1,314 sq mi), Gonda has borders with Shrawasti district to the north, Balrampur and Siddharthnagar districts to the northeast, Basti district to the east, Faizabad district to the south, Bara Banki district to the southwest, and Bahraich district to the northwest. The district lies between 26° 47' and 27° 20' north latitude and 81° 30' and 82° 46' east longitude.
The territory covered by the present district of Gonda formed part of the ancient Kosala Kingdom. After the death of Rama, the celebrated sovereign of the Solar line who ruled Kosala, the kingdom was divided into two portions defined by the Ghaghara river. The northern portion was then ruled by his son, Lava with the city of Sravasti as his capital.
More recently, ancient Buddhist remains dating to the early days of Buddhism have been found throughout the region, including at Sravasti.
During the medieval period, the first Muslim invasion of the region, to the north of the Ghaghara River, took place in the second quarter of the 11th century under Syeed Salar Masud. The rulers of Gonda and surrounding districts formed a league to offer united resistance to Masood. In the second half of the 13th century Gonda was included in the government of Bahraich by the early Muslim rulers, and hence has no independent history of its own. Further, there is no specific reference about the district until the reign of the Tughlaqs.
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