Bakas, also spelled Bakkas, is a village in
Gosainganj block of
Lucknow district,
Uttar Pradesh
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,
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.
As of 2011, its population is 8,171, in 1,444 households.
It is the seat of a
gram panchayat.
History
Around the turn of the 20th century, Bakas was described as "a considerable village" in the northern part of the
pargana
Pargana or parganah, also spelt pergunnah, equivalent to Mohallah as a subunit of Subah (Suba), was a type of former administrative division in the Indian subcontinent during the time of the Delhi Sultanate, Mughal and British Colonial empire ...
of
Mohanlalganj, with a population of 2,200.
The lands belonging to the village stretched northward to the bank of the
Gomti River; they were extensively cultivated, with loamy soil and irrigation provided from tanks and wells.
Bakas hosted a weekly market, and it was held in
zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal lord of a ''zamindari'' (feudal estate). The term itself came into use during the Mughal Empire, when Persian was the official language; ''zamindar'' is the ...
i tenure by the
Janwars of
Mau.
References
Villages in Lucknow district
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