Barabasti

Barabasti/BarahBasti is a group of 12 villages most of them lies in Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Overview

It is situated around 100 km from Delhi, the national capital of India. Barabasti supplies a large number of mangoes to the country. It has been declared fruit belt by the government of Uttar Pradesh. Barabasti in urdu means a "group of twelve Villages".

Barabasti can be reached by road. A three hour drive from Delhi will lead you to Barabasti. Time can be saved by taking the expressway from Delhi to Noida, then the Dankaur station road to Bulandshahr. Than from Bulandshahr to siyana which is the just 8 km from Barabasti. Barabasti is full of mango orchards, many varieties of mangoes are grown here. If you are mango lover you can visit Barabasti in the mango season (10 June- 31 July). Hundreds of trucks loaded with mangoes goes Azadpur Mandi (Fruit market), Delhi and some of best mangoes are exported from there.

There is more thing that Barabasti/Barahbasti is famous for that is the Pathans of Barabasti. It consists of twelve bastis(villages) now under the districts of Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad and Amroha. These villages are:
* 1.AmarPur
* 2.Badkaun
* 3.BahadurGarh
* 4.Barwara
* 5.Bassi
* 6.Bugrasi
* 7.Chandyana
* 8.Daulatpur
* 9.GhesuPur
* 10.HassanPur
* 11.JalalPur
* 12.SherPur

History

Barabasti was established during the regime of Sher Shah Suri in India(1472- 1545). Isa Khan was the founder of Barabasti. The famous river Ganga passes from Barabasti/Barahbasti. In earlier times most of the transportation was done through rivers. When Sher Shah Suri Used to transport his material through boats in Ganga than small Dynasties used to rob his boats. Then Sher Shah Suri decided that will protect his boats by deploying his people on the banks of the Ganga. Isa Khan was commander in Army of Sher Shah Suri and he was very close to him. Then Isa Khan called his people(Pathans) from a town which is on the Afghanistan- Pakistan Border. The village Basi is on the Bank of Ganga. These people came to Basi and used to protect the boats of Sher Shah Suri from invaders. Soon they became powerful as Pathans are, and started conquering the adjoining areas of Basi and defeated the small dynasties.

During the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 many Pathans of Barabasti migrated to Pakistan.Many Freedom Fighters are from Barabasti/Barahbasti. Risaldar Azam Khan of Chandyana was a famous person of earlier times.

People

Some famous personalities are:
* 1.Mumtaz Khan who was a four time MLA from Siyana Seat was from Badkaun.
* 2.Imtiaz Khan Son of Mumtaz khan is a two time MLA is currently is the Indian National Congress. Now he will be contesting election of MP from Khurja seat.
* 3.Arif Mohd Khan was youngest Indian to be central government Minister(Civil Aviation Minister).He has got his name in Limca Book of Indian records. He is a MP of two times and MLA of three times
* 4.Naved Khan Radio Jockey in Radio Mirchi 98.3 Fm is from Bugrasi.He is on air from 5 pm to 9 pm on 98.3 Fm
* 5. Nawab Zia Khan of Bahadurgarh was the Education minister of Uttar Pradesh during the Government of Samajwadi Party

(Saad Khan, Chandyana)

Zia Khan was never been appointed minister nor he is Nawab of any village. He is just enjoying the properties of his maternal uncle and his brothers.