Bara is a village in Chhatoh block of Rae Bareli district,

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. It is located 13 km from

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, the

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headquarters. As of 2011, Bara has a population of 3,578 people, in 708 households. It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities. It is the headquarters of a

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which also includes 9 other villages. The 1951 census recorded Bara as comprising 15 hamlets, with a total population of 1,576 people (780 male and 796 female), in 344 households and 316 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,722

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s. 67 residents were literate, 55 male and 12 female. The village was listed as belonging to the

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of Parshadepur and the

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. Bara at that point had a primary school with 85 students. The 1961 census recorded Bara as comprising 13 hamlets, with a total population of 1,649 people (818 male and 831 female), in 348 households and 328 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,722 acres and it had a medical practitioner and electrical access at that point. The 1981 census recorded Bara as having a population of 2,302 people, in 507 households, and having an area of 627.26

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s. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice. The

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recorded Bara as having a total population of 2,880 people (1,494 male and 1,386 female), in 555 households and 555 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 700 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 576, or 20.0% of the total; this group was 51% male (291) and 49% female (285). Members of scheduled castes made up 30.0% of the village's population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded. The

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of the village was 30% (671 men and 206 women). 969 people were classified as main workers (782 men and 187 women), while 14 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 1,897 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 496 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 390 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; 27 household industry workers; 2 workers employed in other

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, processing, service, and repair roles; 0

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s; 4 employed in trade and commerce; 0 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 50 in other services.

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{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district