Buxar district, with Buxar town as its administrative headquarters, is one of the thirty-eight districts of the state of Bihar in eastern India. The word Buxar has been derived from Vyaghra Sar. The tiger face of Rishi Vedshira, which was due to the curse of the sage Rishi Durvasa, was restored after he took bath in a holy tank. This tank was later named as Vyaghra Sar.

The present district of Buxar comprises of areas under Buxar Sadar and Dumraon Sub-Division of the earstwile Bhojpur district. It was given the status of an independent district in the year 1991. It shares boundaries with Ballia district of U.P. on the north, Rohtas district on the south, Ghazipur and Ballia districts of U.P. on the west and Bhojpur district on the east. The town Buxar is situated on the bank of river Ganges.

Buxar History

Mir Kasim made an attempt to wrest the resource rich province of Bengal from the hands of British. In 1764, he got the support of Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and Nawab Shuja Ud Daulah of Oudh. On October 23, 1764, Mir Kasim, with his army, lost the Battle of Buxar against British Major Hector Monro. He led a contingent of 857 European soldiers and 6213 sepoys. The battle ground of is located at about 6 kilometers from the town of Buxar. The stone memorial raised by the Britishers at Katkauli bears testimony to the fight even today.

Percival Spear provides significant evidence of the battle of Buxar. It was an important battle fought between the forces under the command of the British East India Company on the one side, and the combined armies of Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal ; Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor on the other. This victory cemented the way for British Empire in India. As a consequence, the battle resulted into securing of Diwani rights to administer the collection and management of revenues of large areas which presently form parts of Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh, as well as some parts of Bangladesh. The Battle of Buxar instigated the establishment of the rule of the East India Company in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.

Buxar Climate

The climate is more or less moderate. Due to the hot westerly winds, which begin to blow during the day, hot weather is experienced from the middle of March. The weather is extremely hot during the months of April and May. The monsoon starts by the third week of June and continues till the end of September. The cold weather begins from the months of November till the beginning of March. January is the coldest month when the temperature dips to 10 C. The district experiences occasional thunder storms from the month of April till the end of the monsoons. There is an increase in humidity in the month of June with the fall in temperature. It rains maximum during the months of July and August. Rainfall decreases in the month October but November and December are comparatively dry.

BuxarCulture

A religious area called Panchkoshi Parikrama is taken a round by many people once in a year. It is performed in five days by halting in night in five villages that surround Buxar. Five different kinds of food are cooked during this visit, which includes the famous litti-bhanta. Litti is a ball like structure made of wheat powder, filled with black gram roasted powder mixed with salt and spices called sattu. Bhanta is roasted in the fire of dung along with potato and tomato. Finally all are smashed after removing its peel and taken with litti. Litti is also roasted in the same fire.

Buxar Toursim

Tourist placs in Buxar
Kanwaldah Pokhara, also called VyaghraSar