Shahpur is a village in Lalganj block of

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, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 8 km from Lalganj, the block and tehsil headquarters. As of 2011, it has a population of 689 people, in 126 households. It has 1 primary school and no healthcare facilities, and it hosts both a permanent market and a weekly haat. It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Behta Kalan. The 1951 census recorded Shahpur as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 260 people (149 male and 111 female), in 58 households and 44 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 340

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s. 45 residents were literate, 41 male and 5 female. The village was listed as belonging to 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 Sareni and the thana of Sareni. The 1961 census recorded Shahpur as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 324 people (168 male and 156 female), in 65 households and 54 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 340

s and it had a medical practitioner at that point. The 1981 census recorded Shahpur as having a population of 449 people, in 83 households, and having an area of 141.64 hectares. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice. The

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recorded Shahpur as having a total population of 482 people (258 male and 224 female), in 62 households and 62 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 142 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 73, or 15% of the total; this group was 58% male (42) and 42% female (31). Members of scheduled castes made up 11% of the village's population, while no members of

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were recorded. The literacy rate of the village was 39% (130 men and 59 women). 183 people were classified as main workers (155 men and 28 women), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 299 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 111 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 56 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 10 household industry workers; 4 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0 construction workers; 4 employed in trade and commerce; 0 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 28 in other services.

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{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district