The population of Ballia has increased tremendously from 1901 to 2011.
According to the 2001 Indian census, Ballia had a population of 102,226.
The result was that Ballia passed into the hands of the freedom fighters.
In 1923,
Jawaharlal Nehru came to the district again and addressed a large gathering in Ballia.
It takes almost two hours via road from each of the airports to reach Ballia.
He joined the socialist movement and
was elected secretary of the district Praja Socialist Party(PSP), Ballia.
This temple has its own significance and is very important for the local people of Ballia.
Matters continued in the same state till July, 1858,
when British forces again marched out to Ballia.
During the night of 22- 23 August, military forces entered Ballia and popular government was overthrown.
The boundary between Ballia and Bihar is determined by the deep streams of these two rivers.
On 4 April 1922, Janwaharlal Nahru visited Ballia and addressed a meeting of about 3,000 persons.
Atrocities committed in places like Ballia that joined in the‘Quit India' movement of 1942
are still not fully documented.
For several months Ballia remained comparatively quiet
but the condition of affairs underwent a complete change in March, 1858.
Due to the struggle of these freedom fighters, Ballia became a free city for fourteen days in 1942.
The districts of Jaunpur, Ghazipur and Ballia have no forest land,
while 31 other district have less forest area.
On 21 and 22
June, Motilal Nehru and Madan Mohan Malaviya arrived and addressed meetings at Rasra and Ballia.
The next day all the schools in Ballia were closed
and the students went round in batches shouting patriotic slogans.
According to the second story, the city is named as Ballia due to quality of the soil of the land.
High School, Ballia, except for a session 1911-1912, when he was admitted to the 6th standard
at Bengali Tola Inter College, Benares.
The governor of U.P. was shown the tricolour on his arrival in Ballia and was greeted with shouts of” Governor, go back”.
They did not
want the national flag to be hoisted in Ballia and they shot and killed anyone who dared to do so.
Their presence restored some order but the roads were no longer safe and
the turbulent Rajputs of Pargana Ballia could not be controlled.
His retreat from the Ballia region did not break the will of the freedom fighters,
most of whom had their homes in Ballia.
Last year in July, the Ballia legislator had said that every Hindu couple
must have at least five children for Hindutva to remain intact.
You can take the help of the below itinerary which will not only tell you where to visit but
will also tell what to eat in Ballia.
After enjoying the Bhojpuri snacks which includes dry
fruits like cashew nuts, peanuts and others, it is now time to move out for local sightseeing in Ballia.
The freedom fighters had destroyed a bridge on the road but
the British managed to reach Ballia which was occupied by occupied by Sikh troops under them.
Such was the enthusiasm of the
people for the movement that many foreign cloth merchants in Ballia and a ganja seller in Rasra willingly burnt their stocks publicly.
When the Baritish forces reached Bairia,
the Indian sepoys moved towards Ballia with the intention of capturing the town but their attack was unsuccessful and they were defeated.
Churchill did not and could not anticipate that Ballia would ignite the fire which five years later would engulf
and destroy colonial rule both in India and beyond.