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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Paho
| native_name =
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| other_name = Pāhu
| nickname =
| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Khiron block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Paho (#549) in Khiron CD block
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.33448|N|80.932404|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="GeoNames">{{cite web |url=https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ |website=Do a radial search using these coordinates here |title=Geonames Search}}</ref>
| subdivision_type = Country
| 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 = [[Raebareli district|Raebareli]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011" />
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| area_total_km2 = 8.66
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| population_total = 5620
| population_as_of = 2011
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| 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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'''Paho''', also spelled '''Pahu''', is a village in [[Khiron]] 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=244–61 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0927_PART_A_DCHB_RAE%20BARELI.pdf |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=10 August 2021}}</ref> It is located near the road from [[Raebareli]] to [[Mauranwan]] and [[Unnao]], close to the border with [[Unnao district]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> It is 18 km away from [[Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh|Lalganj]], the tehsil headquarters.<ref name="Census 1981" /> As of 2011, Paho has a population of 5,620 people, in 1,088 households.<ref name="Census 2011" /> It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities, and it hosts a weekly [[haat]] but not a permanent market.<ref name="Census 2011" /> It is the seat of a [[nyaya panchayat]] which also includes 7 other villages.<ref name="Census 1991" />

Paho was historically the seat of a [[taluqdar]]i estate belonging to a branch of the [[Bais (Rajput clan)|Bais]] Rajputs, and the ruins of two old Bais forts are present in the village.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> One is close to the village, while the other is near the southwestern corner of the village lands.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

== History ==
According to oral tradition, Paho was founded sometime around 1100 CE.<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=72, 76–7, 201–2 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35020 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> It later became the seat of a [[taluqdar]]i estate belonging to a branch of the Saibasi clan of the [[Bais (Rajput clan)|Bais]] Rajputs.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The Paho taluqa was founded by Mitrajit Singh, one of the eight sons of Rana Doman Deo of Chiloli.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Mitrajit Singh accompanied [[Aurangzeb]] on a military expedition to [[Kandahar]] and was killed in an avalanche in 1647.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Mitrajit Singh's ninth-generation descendant, Bhup Singh, lost possession of most of the taluqa's villages.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> At the time of the British summary settlement in 1856, Paho itself was assigned to the [[Gautam (Rajput clan)|Gautam]] cultivators, although it was restored to the Bais in 1859 with the Gautams as under-proprietors.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> By the turn of the century, the Paho taluqa consisted of five villages and three [[patti (land tenure)|pattis]] in the [[pargana]] of Khiron, one village each in the parganas of [[Sareni, Uttar Pradesh|Sareni]] and [[Dalmau]], and one [[mahalla|mahal]] in the pargana of Raebareli.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The taluqdar also held the [[Gulariha]] estate of five villages in Unnao district.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

In 1901, Paho's population was recorded as 2,859 people, mostly consisting of Gautams and Bais along with a Muslim minority of 175 people.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The village had an upper primary school at that point.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

The [[1951 Census of India|1951 census]] recorded Paho as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 2,865 people (1,414 male and 1,451 female), in 637 households and 519 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1951">{{cite book |title=Census of India, 1951: District Census Handbook Uttar Pradesh (42 – Rae Bareli District) |date=1955 |location=Allahabad |pages=118–9, 208 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/933/1/23644_1951_RAE.pdf |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 2,244 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1951" /> 257 residents were literate, 254 male and 3 female.<ref name="Census 1951" /> The village was listed as belonging to the [[pargana]] of Khiron and the [[thana]] of [[Gurbakshganj]].<ref name="Census 1951" /> Paho had a primary school at that point, which on 1 January had 202 students in attendance.<ref name="Census 1951" />

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Paho as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 2,852 people (1,373 male and 1,479 female), in 624 households and 548 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (39 – Raebareli District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=lxiv-lxv of section "Dalmau Tahsil" |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1047/1/22852_1961_RAE.pdf |access-date=10 August 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 2,244 [[acre]]s and it had a post office at that point.<ref name="Census 1961" />

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Paho as having a population of 3,718 people, in 621 households, and having an area of 953.44 [[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=126–7 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1298/1/50861_1981_RAE.pdf |access-date=10 August 2021}}</ref> The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.<ref name="Census 1981" />

The [[1991 Census of India|1991 census]] recorded Paho as having a total population of 4,444 people (2,251 male and 2,193 female), in 767 households and 754 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1991">{{cite book |title=Census 1991 Series-25 Uttar Pradesh Part-XII B Village & Townwise Primary Census Abstract District Census Handbook District Raebareli |date=1992 |pages=xxiv-xxviii, 144–5 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1443/1/36846_1991_RAE.pdf |access-date=22 October 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was listed as 866 hectares.<ref name="Census 1991" /> Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 848, or 19% of the total; this group was 53% male (446) and 47% female (402).<ref name="Census 1991" /> Members of [[scheduled castes]] made up 27% of the village's population, while no members of [[scheduled tribes]] were recorded.<ref name="Census 1991" /> The [[literacy rate]] of the village was 42% (1,256 men and 632 women).<ref name="Census 1991" /> 1,269 people were classified as main workers (1,086 men and 183 women), while 179 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 2,996 residents were non-workers.<ref name="Census 1991" /> The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 645 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 333 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 11 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 1 in mining and quarrying; 26 household industry workers; 51 workers employed in other [[manufacturing]], processing, service, and repair roles; 4 [[construction worker]]s; 43 employed in trade and commerce; 5 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 152 in other services.<ref name="Census 1991" />

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Raebareli district}}

[[Category:Villages in Raebareli district]]
[[Category:Zamindari estates in Uttar Pradesh]]

Paho - Revision history

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