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{{other uses|Mawai (disambiguation){{!}}Mawai}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Mawai
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| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Hilauli block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Mawai (#645) in Hilauli CD block
| pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh
| pushpin_label_position = right
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.386631|N|80.99528|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="GeoNames">{{cite web |url=https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ |website=Search for "Mawai" here |title=Geographic Names Search WebApp }}</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]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
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| area_total_km2 = 24.89
| elevation_footnotes =
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| population_total = 14690
| population_as_of = 2011
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| population_density_km2 = auto
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| 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]]
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| registration_plate = UP-35
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'''Mawai''' is a village in [[Hilauli]] 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=373–89 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> As of 2011, its population is 14,690, in 2,734 households, and it has 8 primary schools and one medical clinic.<ref name="Census 2011"/> It hosts a regular market and has a post office.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

== History ==
Mawai was founded by Man Singh, a Dikhit Chhatri from [[Simauni]] in what is now [[Banda district, India|Banda district]].<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=202–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113180 |access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> It was previously the site of a [[Bhar]] fort, which Man Singh conquered and razed to the ground.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> He received the land as a [[jagir]] from the king in [[Delhi]] and founded a village on the site, which he named after himself.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> His descendants founded various [[Khera (settlement type)|khera]]s around Mawai, and for a long time they also held [[qabuliat]]s in the village.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> At some point, the Dikhits gifted the village to an ancestor of one Sheikh Mansur.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

At the turn of the 20th century, Mawai was described as a large, [[dispersed settlement]] in the southeastern part of the [[pargana]] of [[Maurawan]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> It lay off the main roads and had no bazar, and it was mostly significant for its large size.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> The 1901 census recorded its population as 4,363 people, including a Muslim minority of 256.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Mawai as comprising 19 hamlets, with a total population of 5,940 people (2,854 male and 2,636 female), in 965 households and 860 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (37 - Unnao District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=158, cxiv-cxv of section "Purwa Tehsil", cxxvi-cxxvii |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1040/1/21887_1961_UNN.pdf |access-date=11 July 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 6,503 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/> It had a medical practitioner and post office then.<ref name="Census 1961"/> There were two [[grain mill]]s, one small establishment producing edible fats/oils, two miscellaneous food processing facilities, one small manufacturer of [[ammunition]], [[fireworks]], or other explosives, one [[bicycle repair shop]], two places making [[clock]]s and/or [[watch]]es, and two small manufacturers of jewellery or precious metal objects.<ref name="Census 1961"/> It hosted a biweekly [[haat]] on Wednesdays and Thursdays where grain and vegetables were the main items of trade, and its average attendance was around 250 people at the time.<ref name="Census 1961"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Unnao district}}

[[Category:Villages in Unnao district]]

Mawai, Hilauli - Revision history

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