Jewan is a village in

Powayan Powayan or Pawayan is a town and a subdivisional headquarters in Shahjahanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 27 km from Shahjahanpur, 47km from Tilhar. It is located in the fertile agricultural belt of Northern India and is ...

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, in

Shahjahanpur Shahjahanpur () is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. History Shahjahanpur was established by Dil ...

district of

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. Jewan is located on the bank of river

Gomti The Gomti, Gumti or Gomati River is a tributary of the Ganges. According to beliefs, the river is the son of Rishi Vashishtha and bathing in the Gomti on Ekadashi (the 11th day of the two lunar phases of the Hindu calendar month) can wash awa ...

near the village Agouna, east from

Pawayan Powayan or Pawayan is a town and a subdivisional headquarters in Shahjahanpur district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh, 27 km from Shahjahanpur, 47km from Tilhar. It is located in the fertile agricultu ...

and from Shahajahanpur.

Demography

It had in 1901 a population of 2133 persons, out of which 213 were musalmans and the rest being principally katehria rajputs and brahmans. In 1931 the total population was 1870 out of which there were 243 Muslims. According to the 2011 census, its population was about 4000.

History

Jewan was established by Raja Shambhu Shah, the youngest of the three sons of the Nahil estate, and a descendant of Rao Gopal Singh, as a camping and hunting site that later became a village. Raja Shambhu Shah died while fighting

Rohilla Rohillas are a community of Pashtun ancestry, historically found in Rohilkhand, a region in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It forms the largest Pashtun diaspora community in India, and has given its name to the Rohilkhand region. The Ro ...

Pathans. The history of family was also excerpted from the local district gazettes.

Geography

It is located at , and its elevation is about above sea level.

Plantation

The family of Jewan Kothi owns acres of farmland in Jewan and nearby villages, where crops like wheat, rice and sugarcane are grown. The family also owns

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plantation farms known as Mutua and Noudha, in the outskirts of Jewan. Math K Baagh is a part of the former mango farmland (which had 100,000 mango trees), which was later turned into crop-growing fields. It is also the personal crematorium site of the family. The family of Jewan Kothi also owns a multi-acre crop land called "Jhabar", which used to be a jungle with a very large lake, where royal elephants were brought to graze on long grass.

Education

Kunwar Durga Bux Singh Degree College is a college affiliated with

Rohilkhand University Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJP Rohilkhand University) is a government university in Uttar Pradesh, India and campus spread over . It is an ISO9001:2015 Certified U.P. Government University. The university headquarters is in Ba ...

. The college is operated under Kunwar Rameshwar Singh Trust. Kunwar Balvir Singh is the founder and director of this college.

Gallery

File:JEWAN KOTHI TEMPLE .jpg, Kothi Temple File:Garden jewan.jpg, Barahdari File:Monogram kothi.jpg

References

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Villages in Shahjahanpur district