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Salon is a town and
nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...
in Raebareli district in the Indian state of
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. It serves as the headquarters of a
tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...
as well as a
community development block In India, a community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of District, administratively earmarked for planning and development. In tribal areas, similar sub-divisions are called tribal development blocks (TD blocks). T ...
. Originally it was also the headquarters of the entire district, but they were moved after the
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. It is located a bit to the south of the Sai river, at the junction of the Raebareli- Pratapgarh and Jais- Khaga roads. Other roads lead to Dalmau, Manikpur, and Kunda. To the east is a large jhil. Salon is located at . It has an average elevation of 110 metres (360 feet). As of 2011, Salon had a population of 14,757, in 2,130 households.


History

According to legend, Salon was founded by Salivahan, the ancestor of the Bais. It was under Bhar rule for a long time, but although they were driven out by the Muslims after the murder of two
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s passing through, the Muslims did not make much headway here until the late 1700s, during the reign of
Asaf-ud-Daula Mirza Asaf-ud-Daula (23 September 1748 – 21 September 1797) was the Nawab wazir of Oudh ratified by Shah Alam II, from 26 January 1775 to 21 September 1797, and the son of Shuja-ud-Dowlah. His mother and grandmother were the Begums of ...
. Under the Nawabs of Awadh, Salon was the headquarters of a chakla and had a garrison of 350 soldiers, 50 of whom were stationed in the
faujdar Faujdar under the Mughals was an office that combined the functions of a military commander along with judicial and land revenue functions. The term faujdar contained pre-Mughal origins. During those times, the term referred to a military offic ...
s mud fort on the south side of town. Around 1800, Salon was a prosperous town, but it declined by the end of the 19th century. After the British annexed Awadh in 1856, Salon was originally chosen to be the district headquarters, but it lost that status after the 1857 uprising. It was then put under Pratapgarh district as a tehsil headquarters, and finally transferred under Raebareli district in 1869. At the turn of the 20th century, Salon was described as a small but historic town, "surrounded by groves and clumps of palm trees" and possessing a locally important bazar called Fazalganj, which held markets twice per week. The tehsil headquarters were also located in town, along with a police station, post office, cattle pound, and large middle vernacular school. Its population as of 1901 was 5,170 people, including 2,954 Muslims.


Demographics

As of the
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, Salon had a population of 13,166. Males constituted 51.30% of the population and females 48.70%. Salon had an average literacy rate of 49.54%. In Salon, 17% of the population were under 6 years of age. According to the 2011 census, Salon had a population of 14,757 people, in 2,130 households. The town's
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was 973 females to every 1000 males, which was the highest among towns in Raebareli district; 7,479 of Salon's residents were male (50.7%) and 7,278 were female (49.3%). The 0–6 age group made up about 14.0% of the town's population; the sex ratio for this group was 968, which was higher than the district urban average for this group. Members of Scheduled Castes made up 6.78% of the town's population, while members of Scheduled Tribes made up 0.01%. Salon's
literacy rate Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...
was 74.34% (counting only people age 7 and up); literacy was higher among men and boys (80.29%) than among women and girls (68.24%). The scheduled castes literacy rate was 58.25% (65.88% among men and boys, and 50.25% among women and girls). In terms of employment, 17.43% of Salon residents were classified as main workers (i.e. people employed for at least six months per year) in 2011. Marginal workers (i.e. people employed for less than six months per year) made up 9.07%, and the remaining 73.50% were non-workers. Employment status varied significantly according to gender, with 45.22% of men being either main or marginal workers, compared to only 7.25% of women. 51.03% of Salon residents lived in
slum A slum is a highly populated Urban area, urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are p ...
conditions as of 2011. There are six slum areas in Salon: Mikayana East, Gorhi, Paighambarpur West, Nai Bazar, Kachchi Masjid, and Miyan Sahab Ka Pathak (the largest). These range in size from about 135 to 240 households and have between 29 and 131
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access points. The number of
toilet A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste (urine and feces) and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not. They can be designed for a sitting p ...
s installed in people's homes ranges from 35 in Paighambarpur West to 125 in Nai Bazar. All six areas are serviced by open sewers, as is the rest of the city.


Villages

Salon CD block has the following 134 villages:


Notable people

* Deenanath Sewak (ex. M.L.A. 1974–1980)


References

{{Authority control Cities and towns in Raebareli district