Inhauna is a village and corresponding in Singhpur block of

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. As of 2011, its population is 13,049, in 2,021 households. Located at the junction of the

Raebareli Raebareli is a city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raebareli district and a part of Lucknow Division. The city is situated on the banks of the Sai river, southeast of Lucknow. It possesses many arc ...

Rudauli Rudauli is a town, tehsil and a municipal board in Faizabad district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. Rudauli is 50 km west of the district headquarters Ayodhya. Geography Rudauli is located at . It h ...

and

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

- Jaunpur roads, Inhauna is an old town that once served as the seat of a

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 ...

as well as (briefly) a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

, and it has the ruins of an old fort built under the

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. The old marketplace, known as Ratanganj, was built in 1863 by the

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Ratan Narain. Markets are held twice per week, on Mondays and Thursdays, and most of the trade is in livestock.

History

Inhauna is listed in the late-16th-century

Ain-i-Akbari The ''Ain-i-Akbari'' ( fa, ) or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl in the Persian language. It for ...

as a ''mahal'' in the sarkar of

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. It kept this status under the

, under whom a fort was built in the southern part of the village. After the British annexed

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in 1856, Inhauna was made a

headquarters in

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. It lost this status in 1869, when it was transferred to Raebareli district as part of a greater administrative reshuffling. Under this new arrangement, Inhauna became part of Maharajganj tehsil. With the tehsil headquarters and police station relocated, Inhauna declined somewhat from a population of 3,974 in 1869 to 3,373 in 1901. At the turn of the 20th century, Inhauna was described as the only sizeable town in the pargana. It was surrounded by orchards and had a post office, a cattle pound, and a middle vernacular school. To the north of the road to Lucknow was a military encamping ground. The 1961 census recorded Inhauna as comprising 12 hamlets, with a total population of 4,024 people (2,017 male and 2,007 female), in 906 households and 854 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 2,236

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s. Average attendance of the twice-weekly market was listed as about 3,000 people. The 1981 census recorded Inhauna as having a population of 4,905 people, in 1,198 households, and having an area of 851.05

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

References

{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district