JAHÁNÁBÁD, a town in Gayâ district, Bengal, situated on the Patnâ road, 25° 13' 10" N. lat., 85° 2' 10" E. long. Population (1872) 21,022—namely, 12,413 Hindus and 8609 Mahometans. It was at one period a flourishing trading town, and in 1760 it formed one of the eight branches of the company’s central factory at Patnâ. Since the introduction of Manchester goods, the trade of the town in cotton cloth has almost entirely ceased; but large numbers of the Julâha or weaver caste live in the neighbourhood.