District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Supplementary Notes and Statistics Ballia District

In 1925 the management of all the bundhs which had been under the control of the Public Works department was handed over to the municipal board under the control of the District Officer and an annual grant. [...] There are at present twelve ferries over the Ganges of which one ferry at Ballia is provincial and under the management of the collector and the others are under the management of the district board. [...] The debt is now liquidated but the estate is being retained under the managment of the Court of Wards on account of the minority of the heirs of Babu Banke Bahadur Singh. [...] The Sarju which flowed into the Ganges near Bansthana again forms a separate stream flowing in the bed of the Ganges under the north bank and joining the parent river east of the town once again the Katehar nala discharges into the Sarju. [...] At the census of 1911 the population of this village was 6 660 but at the census of 1921 the population of Sonbarsa.