The
Nanpara Taluqdari was one of the
taluqdaris (feudatory states) in
British India. The title of
"Raja" was conferred on the
Nanpara House in 1763 by the Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula, the
King of Oudh and was then recognized by the British. With holding of 439 villages it was the largest Muslim
taluqdars (landowners) in British India. Nanpara was an important frontier estate, bordering
Nepal territory in the Bahraich district of Oudh. Of the 439 villages, 438 were in the Bahraich district and one in the Barabanki district. It comprised an area of , or about the same area of the then former German principality of
Lippe. In 1914–15 The gross rental of the estate amounted to over rupees 12,00,000 and the government demanded land revenue and cesses of rupees 2,80,000. Taking a population density of [which was the estimated district average in the census of 1911] the estate contained a population of over 154,000. In 1632, Rasul Khan, a
Pathan. received a commission from the Emperor to subdue the Banjaras; and obtained for his services and for the pay of his troops, the grant of Nanpara and four other villages in Pargana Solonabad, in addition to one-tenth of the rent of the disturbed territory. Rasul Khan lived at Kummaria in Bundi, and both him and his son Jahan Khan, who succeeded him, are buried there. Jahan Khan's successor, Mohammad Khan, was the first to settle in Nanpara. Mohammad Khan's son and successor, Karam Khan, was so successful against the Banjaras that he gained amongst the country folk the title of Raja, which was confirmed by
Nawab of Oudh Shuja-ud-Daula in 1763, and was recognised as hereditary by the then British Government of India in 1877. This was because this area was home to the Nanpara and Utraula principalities, both of which are now situated in
Bahraich and
Balrampur district, which was the centre of the largest Pathan settlement outside
Rohilkhand. ==Tourism==