Gaurihar is a Town and 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 ...

of Chhatarpur district of

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. it's loceted in

Bundelkhand Bundelkhand (, ) is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central and North India. It corresponds to the Post-Vedic Chedi kingdom. The hilly region is now divided between the states of Uttar Prad ...

region of Madhya Pradesh and is adjacent to Uttar Pradesh.

History

This family is descended from Raja Ram Tiwari, who was Governor of a fort in the service of Guman Singh, ancestor of the Maharajas of Ajaigarh . During the anarchy of the times, Raja Ram rebelled and for a short while held the fort successfully against

Ali Bahadur I Ali Bahadur (1758–1802), also known as Krishna Sinha, was a Nawab of the dominion of Banda (present day Uttar Pradesh) in northern India, a vassal of the Peshwa. He was the son of Shamsher Bahadur I and the grandson of Peshwa Bajirao I. ...

Gaurihar was Kanykubj Brahmin of Jhujautiya division Tiwari ruling state. Gaurihar state was founded in 1807 after a split from

Ajaigarh State Ajaigarh State was a princely state in Bundelkhand, Central India, during the British Raj. It was founded around 1765 CE by Raja Guman Singh, a chieftain of the Bundela Rajput clan and a relative of the ruling family of Orchha State. He establi ...

. Pratap Singh Judev signed the accession to the Indian Union on 1 January 1950. Maharaja Pratap Singh Judev was the last ruler of Gaurihar state.

Geography

Gaurihar is located on , It has an average elevation of 508

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s (1669

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). It's 90 km away from Chhatarpur.

Demographics

As Census of India 2011 Gaurihar town has population of 5,128 of which 2,623 are males while 2 505 are females. Total 1,094 families residing in town. Average Sex Ratio of Gaurihar village is 955. In Gaurihar Male literacy stands at 84.87% while female literacy rate was 66.74%.

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Bundelkhand Chhatarpur Cities and towns in Chhatarpur district {{MadhyaPradesh-geo-stub

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