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Thulendi is a village in
Bachhrawan Bachhrawan is a town and nagar panchayat in Raebareli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the seat of a community development block. It is located on the main Raebareli-Lucknow road, at the intersection with roads leading to Ma ...
block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 6 km from Bachhrawan, the block headquarters, on an elevated plain with
clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...
ey soil. A historic village, Thulendi served as 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 ...
headquarters from the early 1400s until the late 1700s, and it has several old monuments including a fort built under the
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and two large
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s othat are said to be even older. As of 2011, Thulendi's population was 6,616, in 1,195 households. Thulendi hosts a fair on the first Friday in
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in honour of the 11th-century Muslim folk hero
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. Pilgrims bring banners and rest there for one night before proceeding to Satrikh and
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History

Thulendi was supposedly founded by a
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chieftain named Thula. It was then supposedly conquered from the Bhars by Malik Taj-ud-Din, a companion of the 11th-century Muslim folk hero
Ghazi Sayyid Salar Masud Syed Salar Masud Ghazi (10 February 1014 – 15 June 1034), also known as Ghazi Miyan, was a semi-legendary Muslim figure and military leader associated with the Ghaznavid invasions of India in the early 11th century. Born on February 10, 1014, i ...
. Malik Taj-ud-Din supposedly called the place "Maliknagar" and constructed the two large mud-built tanks in the village (one on the north side and the other on the south) called the "bara hauz" and the "chhota hauz". He was killed by the resurgent Bhars when they retook Thulendi, and his tomb is still extant. In the early 1400s, Ibrahim Shah of the
Jaunpur Sultanate The Jaunpur Sultanate () was a late medieval Indian Muslim state which ruled over much of what is now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and southern Nepal between 1394 and 1494. It was founded in 1394 by Khwajah-i-Jahan Malik Sarwar ...
made Thulendi 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 ...
. The old mud fort in Thulendi was built in 820 AH, during Ibrahim Shah's reign. Thulendi remained seat of a pargana until the late 1700s, under
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, when the governor Raja Niwaz Singh relocated the headquarters to
Bachhrawan Bachhrawan is a town and nagar panchayat in Raebareli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the seat of a community development block. It is located on the main Raebareli-Lucknow road, at the intersection with roads leading to Ma ...
. Raja Niwaz Singh built a large
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in Thulendi that is still standing. He also built a sarai, but it was in ruins by the early 1900s. At the turn of the 20th century, Thulendi was described as a large village or small town, surrounded by orchards and possessing several sites of historical interest. It had two masonry mosques, five temples of Mahadeo, a large primary school, and a bazar that held markets on Thursdays and Sundays. Its population in 1901 was 2,976, including 944 Muslims; the most prominent Hindu groups were the
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s, the
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s, and the Muraos. The 1961 census recorded Thulendi as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 2,888 people (1,391 male and 1,497 female), in 624 households and 581 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 2,304
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s and it had a post office at the time. The 1981 census recorded Thulendi as having a population of 3,968 people, in 870 households, and having an area of 929.97
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References

{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district