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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Makhi
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| other_name = Mākhi
| nickname =
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline =
| image_alt =
| image_caption =
| image_map = Mianganj block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Makhi (#794) in Mianganj CD block
| pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh
| pushpin_label_position = right
| pushpin_map_alt =
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.662113|N|80.469926|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="GeoNames">{{cite web |url=https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ |website=Search for "Makhi" here}}</ref>
| subdivision_type = Country India
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Unnao district|Unnao]]
| established_title = 
| established_date = 1771
| founder = Miyan Almas Ali Khan
| named_for =
| government_type =
| governing_body =
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
| area_rank =
| area_total_km2 = 22.168
| elevation_footnotes =
| elevation_m =
| population_total = 13786
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_rank =
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_demonym =
| population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code =
| registration_plate = UP-35
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
'''Makhi''' is a large village in [[Miyanganj]] block of [[Unnao district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Unnao, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=178–203 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=14 July 2021}}</ref> It hosts a [[Ramlila]] fair for one day during the month of Kuar,<ref name="Gazetteer 1903">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Unao: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XXXVIII Of The District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh |date=1903 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=195–6 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113180 |access-date=14 July 2021}}</ref> and it also holds a market twice per week, on Mondays and Saturdays.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (37 - Unnao District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=136, 156, xlvi-xlvii of section "Hasanganj Tehsil", cxxv-cxxvii |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1040/1/21887_1961_UNN.pdf |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> The main items sold at the market are grain and vegetables.<ref name="Census 1961"/> Makhi also has a train station on the [[Kanpur]]-[[Balamau]] line, between the stations at [[Safipur]] and [[Patiyara]].<ref name="Census 1961"/> As of 2011, its population is 13,786, in 2,503 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

== History ==
Makhi was supposedly founded around the year 1000 by a [[Lodh]] named Makhi, who named the village after himself.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> The Lodhs were then conquered by one Raja Ishri Singh, from [[Mainpuri]], whose descendants remained the [[zamindar]]s of the village through the 20th century.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

At the turn of the 20th century, Makhi was described as a very large village at the far southern part of the [[pargana]] of Asiwan Rasulabad.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> The Ramlila fair did not draw very large crowds then, and the village's industries included the manufacture of [[earthenware]] pottery and some silver ornaments.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> It had two temples, one to [[Devi]] and one to Mahadeo, and its population (which was 4,544 as of the 1901 census) consisted mostly of [[Chauhan]] Thakurs and [[Brahmin]]s.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Makhi as comprising 19 hamlets, with a total population of 6,447 (3,411 male and 3,036 female), in 1,130 households and 1,042 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961"/> The area of the village was given as 5,529 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/> Average attendance of the biweekly market was about 400 people at the time.<ref name="Census 1961"/> The village had a medical practitioner at the time, as well as the following small-scale industrial establishments: 1 [[grain mill]], 3 miscellaneous [[food processing]] facilities, 1 maker of garments, 1 maker of sundry hardwares, and 3 uncategorised manufacturers.<ref name="Census 1961"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Unnao district}}

[[Category:Villages in Unnao district]]

Makhi, Unnao - Revision history

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