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The district of Bhagalpur is situated in the central part. Bhagalpur is the headquarters of Bhagalpur division as also of the district of Sadar Subdivision, having 3 Sub divisions viz. Naugachia, Bhagalpur Sadar and Khelgaon in the district. The district of Bhagalpur as presently constituted comprised the both eastern part of the Subah (State) of Bihar in the Moghul times. In the year 1991 Banka sub division of disctrict Bhagalpur being puerly artifical, no corrected account of the territory that now bears this name can be expected however according to the District Gazetteer of the Bhagalpur 1962. Buchaman has observed in his journal that the name is said to have been given by the Moghul officers who colleced a number of fugities and defended them in the plains from the voilence and depredations of the disorderly chiefs of the interior. According to traditions preserved the epics and puranas and descendancy Anu the grandson of Manu founded the Anava Kingdom was devided among the five sons of king Bali known a