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Gaju is a village in
Kachhauna Kachhauna Patseni is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sandila tehsil of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was first upgraded to urban status for the 1981 census. As of 2011, its population is 15,647, in 2,772 households. The Kachhauna comm ...
block of Hardoi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Located on the road from Balamau station to Beniganj and Sitapur, Gaju has a railway station ( Gaju Halt) on the Sitapur-Balamau branch line and hosts a market on Mondays and Thursdays. As of 2011, its population is 8,912, in 1,592 households.


History

At the turn of the 20th century, Gaju was described as a mostly unremarkable agricultural village, with good soil and a small village school. It lay in the
pargana Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...
of Sandila and was held in
taluqdar Taluqdars or Talukdar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: ; Perso-Arabic: , ; from ''taluq'' "estate/attachment" + '' dar'' "owner"), were aristocrats who formed the ruling class during the Delhi Sultanate, Bengal Sultanate, Mughal Empire and British Raj ...
i tenure by Maharaj Singh of Atwa Nasirpur, who resided in the neighbouring village of Hathaura. British authors at the time considered it only noteworthy for its large size: the 1901 census recorded its population as being 2,510 people. The 1961 census recorded Gaju as comprising 10 hamlets, with a total population of 3,846 (2,050 male and 1,796 female), in 768 households and 592 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 3,347
acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imp ...
s. Average attendance of the biweekly market was about 100.


References

{{Hardoi district Villages in Hardoi district