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'''GhazipurBallia''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=6&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_160I34_V06_256.gif Ghazipur Ballia District] in the Benares Division of United Provinces during the British period. It is situated on the left bank of the Ganges and was on a branch of the [[Bengal and North-Western Railway]]. It also connected by a steam ferry with the terminus of a branch of the [[East Indian Railway]]  "Ghazipur is the head-quarters of the Opium Agent for the United Provinces, and the opium factory is situated here... Its main function is to prepare [[Opium trade|opium]] for the Chinese market, where it is known as Benares opium".

Modern name: GhazipurBallia<br>Variants: Ghazipore/Ghazipoor/Ghazepore/Ghazeepore/GhazeepoorBaliya

*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_236I34_V06_263.gif Ghazipur Ballia Town] Imperial Gazetteer of India*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Azamgarh GhazipurBallia Ballia] Love to Know 1911<br>*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-94RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74 Ghazepore], page 74 ''The United Service Magazine, Part 3 1858'' Google Books*''North-Western Provinces: Historical and Statistical Memoir of the Ghazeepoor District'' by Wilton Oldham :[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=CMYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Part I''] 1870 Google Books [http://archive.org/stream/historicalstatis02oldhuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Part II- History of Ghazeepoor and the Benares Province from 1781 A.D. to 1795 A.D''] 1876 Archive.org*[http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1956-01-01_2_page009.html “The manufacture and sale of opium and opium alkaloids at the Ghazipur factory”] by S. K. Vardhan Manager, Government Opium and Alkaloids Factory, Ghazipur (U.P.). written in 1956