Binayakpur

Binayakpur was a pargana in the country between Basti and Gorakhpur, in the eastern plains of Hindustan. The wider region lay near the ancient Buddhist centres of Kapilavastu and Shravasti; later accounts describe much of the country as forest inhabited by Bhar and Tharu communities. The Nawab of Awadh ceded the Gorakhpur region to the British East India Company in 1801, bringing its parganas under a new authority.