Beniganj

Beniganj is a town and nagar panchayat in Sandila tehsil of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 21 miles southeast of Hardoi and 16 miles north of Sandila, on the road to Nimkhar and Sitapur.

==History== Originally called Ahmadabad Sarsand, Beniganj was first inhabited by Jogis and Arakhs. They are said to have then been driven out by Janwars from nearby Gaju and Tikari sometime before the year 1300. Beniganj received its present name in the mid-1700s, when Beni Bahadur, the diwan of Shuja-ud-Daula, built a row of shops here and called it Beniganj after himself. It then came under the control of an Ahir landlord named Ram Das, who held the village for 20 years before giving it along with half his lands to Gobind, the Chaudhri of Khairabad, in order to form a political alliance. It later formed part of the estate of the taluqdars of Kakrali.