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Gaura, Jamo
Gaura is a village in Jamo block of Amethi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. The namesake of the historical pargana of Gaura Jamun, Gaura consists of a main site called Gaura ''khas'' in the northeast surrounded by several smaller hamlets. The village lands are fertile and contain many orchard groves. In the east-central part there is a large '' jhil'' which provides a convenient source of irrigation but also sometimes overflows and floods the surrounding fields. Gaura is located just north of Jamo on the Gauriganj-Jagdishpur road, and another road also leads off to Musafirkhana. As of 2011, Gaura has a population of 4,349 people, in 700 households. It has 3 primary schools and a family welfare centre and it does not host a regular market or weekly haat. It serves as the seat of a nyaya panchayat which also includes 6 other villages. History At the turn of the 20th century, Gaura was described as a fairly large but otherwise rather insignificant village that belonged to the tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of India
India is a federalism, federal union comprising 28 federated state, states and 8 union territory, union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 List of districts in India, districts and smaller administrative divisions of India, administrative divisions by the respective subnational government. The states of India are self-governing administrative divisions, each having a State governments of India, state government. The governing powers of the states are shared between the state government and the Government of India, union government. On the other hand, the union territories are directly governed by the union government. History 1876–1919 The British Raj was a very complex political entity consisting of various imperial divisions and states and territories of varying autonomy. At the time of its establishment in 1876, it was made up of 584 princely state, constituent states and the prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musafirkhana
Musafirkhana is a town and tehsil in Amethi district in Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. The word "Musafirkhana" means "Caravanserai, Sarai," or "Dharamshala (type of building), Dharamshala". Musafirkhana is located 32 km northwest of district headquarters Amethi. As of 2011, Musafirkhana's population is 7,999 people, in 1,276 households. History At the turn of the 20th century, Musafirkhana was described as a small and run-down village that was of no importance besides being the tehsil headquarters. Why it was chosen as the seat of a tehsil is unclear — it was originally all the way in the corner of the tehsil, and was possibly chosen so that officials could keep an eye on the Kandu nala, which was formerly affected by bandits and dacoits. Musafirkhana was originally a bazar — or rather sarai, as the name indicates — built on the village lands of Bhanauli. Their combined population in 1901 was 2,058, a quarter of whom were Muslims. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Census Of India
The 1991 census of India was the 13th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 838,583,988. Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Paris, France Retrieved 17 December 2014. The number of enumerators was 1.6 million. Religious demographics Hindus comprises 69.01 crore(81.53%) and Muslims were 10.67 crore(12.61%) in 1991 census. Language data The 1991 census recognizes 1,576 classified "mother tongues". According to the 1991 census, 22 languages had more than a million native speakers, 50 had more than 100,000 and 114 had more than 10,000 native speakers. The remaining accounted for a total of 566,000 native speakers (out of a total of 838 million Indians in 1991). The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736. Other statistics * Census towns in 1991 census of India were 1,702. * Jammu and Kashmir was excluded from census-taking in 1991 due to Insurgency in Jammu and K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
