Jarwal is a town and a
nagar panchayat
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in
Bahraich district in the
India
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n
state
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of
Uttar Pradesh
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. It has an average elevation of 117 metres (383 feet). This place is 20 km away from historical Lodheshwar Mahadev Mandir located in Mahadeva Ram Nagar, that is well described in old mythological stories.
Demographics
As of
2011 census of India Jarwal had a population of 19289. Males constitute 52.54% of the population and females 47.46%. Jarwal has an average literacy rate of 49.83%, lower than the state's rate of 67.68%. Male literacy is 55.09%, and female literacy is 43.94%. In Jarwal, 17.53% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Jarwal Road railway station is the nearest railway track and it is 9 km from Jarwal Kasba.
History
The Sayyids of Jarwal, along with those of
Kintoor and
Zaidpur, were well known ''Taluqadars'' (feudal lords) of Awadh province.
The Sayyids of Jarwal were descended from one Abu Talib, who was originally from
Iran
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. During
Genghis Khan
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's invasion, Abu Talib fled with his family, first to
Khorasan and then to
Lahore
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. In 1286, his son Aziz ud-Din went to
Delhi
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, and his own son Ala ud-Din eventually settled in
Bado Sarai, in
Barabanki district. Ala ud-Din had two sons: Jalal ud-Din and Jamal ud-Din. Jalal ud-Din incurred the ire of the Delhi sultan
Ghiyath ud-Din Tughluq, who had him executed. Ghiyath ud-Din later tried to make amends to Jamal ud-Din by granting him 25,000 ''
bighas'' of land, revenue-free, in
Barhauli, on the south bank of the
Gogra, and another 25,000 in
Jarauli on the north bank.
While Jamal ud-Din had no trouble establishing himself in Barhauli, he faced stiff resistance from Raja Chhatarsal, the
Bhar ruler of Jarauli, and died without taking control of the fort of Jarauli. His son, Sayyid Zakariyya, finally gained control of the fort in 1340, probably because of military support from
Muhammad bin Tughluq
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, who is known to have been in the Bahraich area during that year.
In 1800 the Jarwal Sayyids, some of them Shi‘is, displaced the Ansari Shaykhs and came to hold 276 out of 365 villages in the parganah, although their holdings thereafter declined rapidly to (a still formidable) 76 villages in 1877.
''Khateeb-ul-Iman Maulana'' Syed Muzaffar Husain Rizvi Tahir ''Jarwali'' (1932-Dec 1987) a Shia religious leader was one of the prominent Jarwali Sayyid and celebrated preacher of late 20th century (1970s & 80s), he was also General Secretary of
All India Shia Conference for some time.
References
{{Bahraich district
Cities and towns in Bahraich district