Inhauna is a village in the Singhpur block of Rae Bareli district,

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. As of 2011, it has a population of 13,049 in 2,021 households. Located at the junction of the

Raebareli Raebareli () is a city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Raebareli district, and a part of Lucknow Division and comes under the Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UP-SCR). The city is situated on the ...

Rudauli Rudauli is a town, tehsil and a municipal board in Ayodhya district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Rudauli is 50 km west of the district headquarters Ayodhya. Geography Rudauli is located at . It has an average elevation of 105&n ...

and

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- Jaunpur roads, Inhauna is an old town that once served as the seat of a

pargana Pargana or parganah, also spelt pergunnah, equivalent to Mohallah as a subunit of Subah (Suba), was a type of former administrative division in the Indian subcontinent during the time of the Delhi Sultanate, Mughal and British Colonial empire ...

and briefly as 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 ...

. It has the ruins of an old fort built under the

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. The old marketplace, known as Ratanganj, was built in 1863 by the tahsildar Ratan Narain. Markets are held twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays, with most of the trade focused on livestock.

History

Inhauna is listed in the late 16th-century ''

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'' as a ''mahal'' in the sarkar of

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. It retained this status under the

, during which a fort was constructed in the southern part of the village. After the British annexed the

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in 1856, Inhauna was designated as a

headquarters in the

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. However, it lost this status in 1869 when it was transferred to the Raebareli district as part of a broader administrative reorganisation. Following this change, Inhauna became part of the Maharajganj tehsil. With the relocation of the tehsil headquarters and police station, Inhauna experienced a decline in prominence, with its population decreasing from 3,974 in 1869 to 3,373 in 1901. At the turn of the 20th century, Inhauna was described as the only sizeable town in the pargana. It was surrounded by orchards and had a post office, a cattle pound, and a middle vernacular school. North of the road to Lucknow was a designated military encampment ground. The 1961 census recorded Inhauna as consisting of 12 hamlets, with a total population of 4,024 people (2,017 males and 2,007 females) in 906 households and 854 physical houses. The area of the village was recorded as 2,236

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s. The average attendance at the twice-weekly market was approximately 3,000 people. The 1981 census recorded Inhauna as having a population of 4,905 people in 1,198 households, with an area of 851.05

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, square metres (), and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. ...

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{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district