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{{short description|village in Uttar Pradesh, India}}
{{for|the village in Raebareli district|Kathwara, Raebareli}}
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| name = Kathwara
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| other_name = Kathwāra
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Lucknow district|Lucknow]]
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| area_total_km2 = 12.953
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'''Kathwara''' is a large village in [[Bakshi Ka Talab]] block of [[Lucknow district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Lucknow, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=67, 113-37 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> As of 2011, its population is 6,740, in 1,303 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/> Kathwara is a village with a long history, with legendary origins said to date back to the [[Dvapara Yuga]],<ref name="Gazetteer">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Lucknow - A Gazetteer |date=1904 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=196-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48095 |access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> and it is the site of the [[Chandrika Devi Temple, Lucknow|Chandrika Devi Temple]].<ref name="Census 2011"/><ref name="Gazetteer"/>

== History ==
Kathwara's origin myth states that the place was once ruled by one Daiyat Hansan Dhuj; when [[Arjuna]] set a horse loose as part of the [[Ashvamedha]] ritual horse-sacrifice, Hansan seized it, and Arjuna led an army to meet him in battle.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The place where the two armies fought was then dubbed ''Katak-wasa'', or "the meeting of the armies", and has retained that name ever since.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> According to this legend, before the battle took place, Hansan had prepared a large cauldron with boiling oil and threatened that if any of his soldiers hesitated in mustering at the battlefield, he would throw them in to be boiled alive.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> However, in a twist of fate, it was his son, Sadhanand, who was late to arrive, having stayed behind one more day at the urging of his wife.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Sadhanand was thrown into the cauldron but, miraculously, he was not harmed.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> This episode is said to have happened at the nearby hamlet of [[Chandanpur, Lucknow|Chandanpur]].<ref name="Gazetteer"/>

Local tradition maintains that the [[Bhar]]s then ruled the area, and then after them the [[Kurmi]]s, who had a strong fort at Kathwara.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Then, around 1400, two [[Chauhan]] brothers, Acharaj and Bacharaj, came from [[Mainpuri]], defeated the last Kurmi king, Rai Dhandhu, and established themselves as rulers of the area.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Kathwara then served as the seat of a powerful Chauhan estate until modern times.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The estate holders often caused trouble for the [[Nawabs of Awadh]]; for example in 1851 when they refused to pay revenue to the king, leading to the [[chakladar]] Khan Ali Khan leading a royal army to subjugate them.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The Kathwara estate comprised 32 villages in 1866, but it declined in subsequent years, and by the turn of the 20th century it had dwindled to just the single village of Kathwara.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Around that time, Kathwara was described as a large village in the western part of the [[pargana]] of [[Mahona]], almost completely surrounded by orchards.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> To the south of Kathwara, the [[Gomti River|Gomti]] banks were described as being scored by many deep ravines.<ref name="Gazetteer"/>

== References ==
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[[Category:Villages in Lucknow district]]

Kathwara, Lucknow - Revision history

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