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{{for|the city in Hardoi district|Hardoi}}
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| name = Hardoi
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| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Maharajganj block map (Rae Bareli).png
| map_caption = Map showing Hardoi (#939) in Maharajganj CD block
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.41018|N|81.183741|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="GeoNames">{{cite web |url=https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ |website=Search for "Hardoi" here |title=Geographic Names Search WebApp }}</ref>
| subdivision_type = Country India
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Raebareli district|Raebareli]]
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| area_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
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| area_total_km2 = 5.264
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| population_total = 2308
| population_as_of = 2011
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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| registration_plate = UP-35
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'''Hardoi''' is a village in [[Maharajganj, Raebareli|Maharajganj]] block of [[Rae Bareli district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Rae Bareli, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=108–24 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0927_PART_A_DCHB_RAE%20BARELI.pdf |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref> Located on the road from Maharajganj to [[Bachhrawan]], Hardoi historically served as the seat of a [[pargana]] and has a now-ruined fort built in the early 1400s under the [[Jaunpur Sultanate]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Rai Bareli: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XXXIX Of The District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh |date=1905 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=141, 175–7 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35020 |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref> As of 2011, its population is 2,308, in 415 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

==History==
Hardoi was supposedly founded by and named after a [[Bhar]] named Hardeo.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> The Bhars were the original rulers of the region and are said to have successfully repelled an invasion by the Muslim folk hero [[Ghazi Sayyid Salar Masud]] in the 11th century.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> Agha Shahid, an attendant of Malik Taj-ud-Din of [[Bachhrawan]], arrived to reinforce Salar Masud's forces but was killed in battle and is buried here.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> An old tradition connected with Agha Shahid's tomb holds that if someone disputes the authenticity of a legal document, then its holder places it on the tomb and the challenger tries to tear it off.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> According to legend, if the document is genuine, then the challenger's thumb will tear off instead of the paper.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/>

The Bhars of Hardoi were subjugated in the early 15th century by [[Ibrahim Shah Sharqi]] of the [[Jaunpur Sultanate]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> Ibrahim Shah had a mud fort (now in ruins) built here and granted the place to a follower of his named Sayyid Jalal-ud-Din.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> Later, at the end of the 16th century, Hardoi was listed in the [[Ain-i-Akbari]] as a ''mahal'' of the [[Sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]] of [[Lucknow]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> Its proprietors were listed as [[Brahmin]]s, it was assessed at a value of 359,748 [[Dam (Indian coin)|dam]]s, and it supplied a force of 300 infantry to the Mughal army.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/>

The 1901 census recorded Hardoi as having a population of 1,378 people, all of whom were Hindu and most of whom were [[Kurmi]]s.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/> The village was held by Kurmi tenants and it had 15 masonry houses, with the rest being built from mud.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905"/>

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Hardoi as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 1,311 people (680 male and 631 female), in 355 households and 333 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (39 - Raebareli District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=xiv-xv of section "Maharajganj Tahsil", cxxii, cxxv-cxxvi|url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1047/1/22852_1961_RAE.pdf |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 1,287 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/> At that point, it had a post office, 2 [[grain mill]]s, 3 small manufacturers of clothing, and 2 small establishments involved in stone dressing, stone crushing, and/or making structural stone goods.<ref name="Census 1961"/>

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Hardoi as having a population of 1,640 people, in 339 households, and having an area of 526.51 [[hectare]]s.<ref name="Census 1981">{{cite book |title=Census 1981 Uttar Pradesh: District Census Handbook Part XIII-A: Village & Town Directory, District Rae Bareli |date=1982 |pages=40–1 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1298/1/50861_1981_RAE.pdf |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Raebareli district}}

[[Category:Villages in Raebareli district]]

Hardoi, Raebareli - Revision history

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