Goshainganj
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Place details
- Locality
- Gosaiganj
- Region
- Uttar Pradesh
- Country
- India
- Population
- 13,176
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Goshainganj
- Settlement.other_name
- Gosainganj
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Uttar Pradesh
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uttar Pradesh
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ayodhya
- Settlement.founder
- Mahant Iccha Goshain and Rai Ahankaari Singh
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 97
- Settlement.population_total
- 12931
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 6465.50 (2011
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Language
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Ayodhya district
- Area
- 2
- Elevation
- 97
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Goshainganj railway station.jpg
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- postal code
- 224141
- Commons category
- Goshainganj
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Demographics
- Governance and politics
- Transport
- Roadways
- Railways
- Air
- Neighbouring cities, towns and markets
- See also
- References
Goshainganj, also known as Gosainganj, is a town and nagar panchayat in the Ayodhya district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Located 32 km from the district headquarters Ayodhya, Goshainganj has one of the oldest markets of the district.
==History== A local Baruwar Taluqdar named Rai Ahankaari Singh (Ahankari Rae), gave the glebe land for the current market to a saint named Mahant Inccha Gosai, on whose name, the market and later the town came to be known as Gosainganj. While Gosaiganj Katara bazaar was established by the wife of Madho Singh Barwar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goshainganj” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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