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{{About|the municipality in Uttar Pradesh, India|its namesake district|Basti district}}
{{Other places3|Basti (disambiguation){{!}}Basti}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
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'''Basti''' is a city, [[municipal board]] and administrative headquarters of [[Basti district]] in the Indian [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. Basti district is a part of [[Basti division]]. It is situated 202 kilometres east of state capital [[Lucknow]].

Basti was originally known as Vaishishthi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.majorcitiesofworld.com/where-is-basti-in-uttar-pradesh-india/|title=Where is Basti, Information about Basti, Where is Basti Located in Uttar Pradesh, India|language=en-US|access-date=28 October 2019}}</ref> The origin of the name Vaishishthi is attributed to the fact that this area was the [[ashram]] of Rishi (sage) [[Vashistha]] in ancient period. [[Rama]] with his younger brother [[Lakshmana]] had been here for some time with Rishi Vashistha.

The tract comprising the present district was remote and much of it was covered with forest. But gradually the area became inhabitable, for want of recorded and reliable history it cannot, with any degree of certainty, be said how the district came to be known by its present name on account of the original habitation (Basti) having been selected by the Kalhan Raja as a seat of his Raj, an event which probably occurred in the 16th century. In 1801, Basti became the Tehsil headquarters and in 1865 it was chosen as the headquarters of the newly established district.

In the freedom struggle of 1857, about 250 martyrs of [[Amorha]] state were hanged by the British Government from [[peepal tree]]s located at [[Chhawani]].<ref name="basti.nic.in">{{cite web|url=http://basti.nic.in/Tourist%20gen%20info/placeof%20interest.htm|title=Places of Interest|work=basti.nic.in|access-date=9 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629215843/http://basti.nic.in/Tourist%20gen%20info/placeof%20interest.htm|archive-date=29 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy|author=Thomas, D.|date=1998|publisher=Leo Cooper|isbn=9780850526233|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9KkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|page=16|access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=The final settlement report on the Gonda district|author=Benett, W.C.|date=1878|volume=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i6gIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA22|page=22|access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)|author=Michael, B.A.|date=2014|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=9781783083220|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTKNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|page=151|access-date=14 January 2017}}</ref>

==Geography==
The district lies between the parallels of 26° 23' and 27° 30' North and Latitude and 82° 17' and 83° 20' East longitude. Its maximum length from north to south is about 75 km. and breadth from east to west about 70 km. The district lies between newly created district Sant Kabir Nagar on the east and Gonda on the west. On the south, the Ghaghra river near [[Amorha Khas]] previously known as [[Amorha]] Province or State of Raja Zalim Singh separates it from the Faizabad and newly created district named Ambedkar Nagar. While on the north, it is bounded by district Sidharth Nagar.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=26.80351&lon=82.7416&zoom=13&q1=Basti%252C%2520Basti%252C%2520Uttar%2520Pradesh |title = Yahoo maps location of Basti |publisher = Yahoo maps |access-date = 29 March 2009 }}</ref>

[[Basti district|Basti]] is basically between [[Ayodhya]] and [[Gorakhpur]].

==Demographics==
{{see also|List of cities in Uttar Pradesh}}
As of [[2011 Indian Census]], Basti had a total population of 114,657, of which 60,095 were males and 54,562 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 13,349. The total number of literates in Basti was 84,389, which constituted 73.6% of the population with male literacy of 78.3% and female literacy of 68.5%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Basti was 83.3%, of which male literacy rate was 88.6% and female literacy rate was 77.5%. The [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] population was 17,036 and 275 respectively. Basti had 17894 households in 2011.<ref name="Census2011Gov">{{cite web |title=Census of India: Basti |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=207521 |website=www.censusindia.gov.in |access-date=9 October 2019}}</ref>

==Education==
*[[Autonomous State Medical College, Basti]]
*Rajkiya Engineering College in Government Polytechnic, Basti

== See also ==
*[[Basti district]]
*[[Basti division]]
*[[Gorakhpur]]
*[[Ayodhya]]
*[[Basti Khabar]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Basti district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Basti district]]
[[Category:Cities in Uttar Pradesh]]

Basti, Uttar Pradesh - Revision history

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