Raghipur is a village in Gauriganj block of

Amethi district Amethi district is the 72nd district of the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. This district is a part of Faizabad division (officially ''Ayodhya division'') in the Awadh region of the Uttar Pradesh. It covers an area of 2329.11 km� ...

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. As of 2011, it has a population of 1,207 people, in 231 households. It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities and hosts a permanent market but not a weekly

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. It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Bahanpur.

History

Raghipur was the only village in the

pargana Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...

Amethi Amethi is a city situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a major town of the Amethi district, in the Faizabad division. The Hanumangarhi temple is located in the heart of the town. Amethi was the 72 nd district of Uttar Pradesh w ...

not held by the Raja of Amethi under an 1804 agreement. The 1951 census recorded Raghipur as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 693 people (341 male and 352 female), in 161 households and 142 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 154

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s. 70 residents were literate, all male. The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Amethi and the

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of Gauriganj. The village had a district board-run primary school with 80 students in attendance as of 1 January 1951. The 1961 census recorded Raghipur as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 789 people (370 male and 419 female), in 189 households and 178 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 154 acres and it had a post office at that point. The 1981 census recorded Raghipur as having a population of 895 people, in 190 households, and having an area of 61.92

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s. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice. The 1991 census recorded Raghipur as having a total population of 984 people (504 male and 480 female), in 196 households and 196 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 62.00 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 170, or 17% of the total; this group was 59% male (100) and 41% female (70). Members of scheduled castes numbered 259, or 26% of the village's total population, while no members of

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were recorded. The

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of the village was 38% (224 men and 85 women, counting only people age 7 and up). 348 people were classified as main workers (238 men and 110 women), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 636 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 120 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 186 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 8 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 7 household industry workers; 3 workers employed in other

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, processing, service, and repair roles; 0

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s; 9 employed in trade and commerce; 2 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 21 in other services.

References

{{Amethi district Villages in Amethi district