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Banaras railway station at night. Varanasi Junction, commonly known as Varanasi Cantt Railway Station, is the city's largest railway station. More than 360,000 passengers and 240 trains pass through each day. [264] Banaras railway station is also a Terminal station of Varanasi. Because of huge rush at Varanasi Junction, the railway station was ...
Raja Chait Singh of Benares State The Maharaja's Fort and palace in Ramnagar Maharaja of Benares with his courtiers in the 1870s. Banaras State, earlier Benares Estate, [1] was an estate, or hereditary jagir, comprising the family domains of the Maharaja of Benares—under the Nawabs of Oudh, East India Company rule, and the British Raj—that from 1911 to 1948 was recognized as a princely state.
sari from Varanasi (Banaras), silk and gold-wrapped silk yarn with supplementary weft brocade (). A Banarasi sari is a sari made in Varanasi, an ancient city in the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region, which is also called Benares (Banaras).
Upon the release of Eck's 2013 India: A Sacred Geography, a reviewer noted that in this later book Eck gives examples and generalizes about ideas that Eck shared in the earlier Banaras book. [6] A 2014 of scholarly essays, Banâras Revisited: Scholarly Pilgrimages to the City of Light, took its name from the Eck book. [7]
Banaras Railway Station (station code: BSBS), formerly known as Manduadih Railway Station, is located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. This station, recently renamed to resonate more closely with the city’s heritage, has become a key transit point in the North Eastern Railway Zone .
Varanasi, also called Banaras, is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Banaras may also refer to: Places. Banaras State, former primcely state of India;
Varanasi, also known as Benares, [1] Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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