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{{Short description|Village in Uttar Pradesh, India}}
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Etawah district|Etawah]]
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'''Asai''' ({{IAST|Āsaī}}) is a village in [[Mahewa]] block of [[Etawah district]], Uttar Pradesh. As of 2011, it had a population of 942, in 143 households. Its existence is documented since at least the late 1100s, when there was a [[Pashupata Shaivism|Pashupata Shaiva]] [[matha]] here on the banks of the [[Yamuna]], as well as a temple of Someshvara.

== History ==
[[S. Subramonia Iyer]] identified Asai with the place called '''Āsatikā''' or '''Āsatī''' in two [[Indian copper plate inscriptions|copper plate grants]]{{refn|group=note|Both grants were found locally at Asai, at apparently the same time, when a farmer happened to dig them up while ploughing a field.<ref name="Subramonia Iyer 1976"/>{{rp|25}}}} dating from the reign of the [[Gahadavala dynasty|Gāhaḍavāla dynasty]] king [[Jayachandra]]. The first grant, dated to 2 November 1172, records a land grant{{refn|group=note|The 1172 grant consisted of a field called Lahaḍa-kṣetra, to the south of the [[agrahara|agrahāra]] settlement of Vakradevapura, in Siddhachauṭa-pattala. The field's boundaries with four villages are described in the grant, but other than the village of Gautamapurī, which Subramonia Iyer identified with present-day [[Gautampur, Etawah|Gautampur]], none of them can be identified.<ref name="Subramonia Iyer 1976"/>{{rp|26}}}} by a [[rana (title)|rāṇaka]] named Abhayapāla to a [[pandit|paṇḍita]] named Kedārarāśi, with Jayachandra's explicit approval (Jayachandra, as king, would normally be expected to give his assent to any such grants). The grant seems to have been intended for the temple of Someśvaradeva in Āsatī, with Kedārarāśi (whose exact role at the temple is unclear) supposed to be receiving the gift on behalf of the god Someśvaradeva. The inscription states that Abhayapāla bathed in the [[Yamuna|Yamunā]] at Āsatikā before making the grant. The second grant, dated to 10 January 1183, was made by a rāṇaka named Amṛtapāla (again, after bathing in the Yamunā at Āsatikā) to Nīlakaṇṭha, who was Kedārarāśi's son and was a resident at a [[Pashupata Shaivism|Pāśupata]] [[matha|maṭha]] at Āsatī. This inscription never specifies what exactly is being granted, but it implies that the grant consists of the village of Vahaḍhovi-grāma in Payidhuka-pattalā. Subramonia Iyer considered these inscriptions significant for indicating that Asai had a Pāśupata maṭha on the banks of the Yamunā at this period, as well as recording what appears to have been a related dynasty of feudatories under the Gāhaḍavālas in the Etawah region.<ref name="Subramonia Iyer 1976">{{cite journal |last1=Subramonia Iyer |first1=S. |title=Two Copper Plate Charters of the Gāhaḍavāla King Jayachchandradēva |journal=[[Epigraphia Indica]] |date=1976 |volume=41 |pages=25-33 |url=https://archive.org/details/epigraphiaindicavol41_382_V/page/n49/mode/2up |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
As of 2011, Asai had a population of 942, in 143 households.<ref name="Census 2011 A"/>{{rp|196}} This population was 55.4% male (522) and 44.6% female (420). The 0–6 age group numbered 155 (88 male and 67 female), making up 16.5% of the total population. 181 residents were members of Scheduled Castes, or 19.2% of the total.<ref name="Census 2011 B">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Etawah, Part B (Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1203/download/3826/DH_2011_0930_PART_B_DCHB_ETAWAH.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|142-3}}

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Asai as having a population of 636 people, in 119 households.<ref name="Census 1981">{{cite book |title=Census 1981 Uttar Pradesh: District Census Handbook Part XIII-B: Village & Town Directory, District Etah |date=1982 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/29068/download/32249/46087_1981_ETA.pdf |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|92–3}}

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Asai as comprising 6 hamlets, with a total population of 464 people (253 male and 211 female), in 84 households and 82 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,225 acres.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (26 - Etawah District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/28766/download/31948/22865_1961_ETA.pdf |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|L}}

== Infrastructure ==
As of 2011, Asai had 1 primary school; it did not have any healthcare facilities. Drinking water was provided by tap, well, hand pump, and tube well/bore well; there were no public toilets. The village did not have a post office or public library; there was at least some access to electricity for all purposes. Streets were made of both ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#kachcha|kachcha]]'' and ''[[Indian vernacular architecture#pucca|pakka]]'' materials.<ref name="Census 2011 A">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Etawah, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1202/download/3822/DH_2011_0930_PART_A_DCHB_ETAWAH.pdf |website=Census of India |access-date=2 February 2026}}</ref>{{rp|196-201}}

== Notes ==
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==References==
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{{Etawah district}}

[[Category:Villages in Etawah district]]

Asai, Etawah - Revision history

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