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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sikandarpur
| native_name =
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| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Sikandarpur Sarausi block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Sikandarpur (#142) in Sikandarpur Sarausi 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|34|N|80|23|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="Gazetteer 1979"/>
| 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 = 5.579
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| population_total = 4510
| 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]]
| postal_code =
| registration_plate = UP-35
| website =
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'''Sikandarpur''' is a village in [[Sikandarpur Sarausi]] 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=262-79 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> Located 10km northwest of the city of [[Unnao]],<ref name="Gazetteer 1979">{{cite book |last1=Baghel |first1=Amar Singh |title=Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Unnao |date=1979 |publisher=Government Press |location=Rampur |pages=272-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.2864 |access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> near the Barhota lake,<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 |page=239-43 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113180 |access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref> it serves as the block headquarters as well as the seat of a [[nyaya panchayat]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1979"/> It is also the namesake of a historical [[pargana]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1979"/> The main crops in Sikandarpur are wheat, barley, gram, [[juwar]], and paddy, and irrigation is largely done by wells.<ref name="Gazetteer 1979"/> It has a post office and a veterinary hospital.<ref name="Gazetteer 1979"/> As of 2011, its population is 4,510, in 752 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

== History ==
Sikandarpur was originally called '''Burhanpur''', but the name was changed in 1297 by Sikandar Khan, an agent of [[Ala-ud-Din Khilji]]. It later lent its name to a [[pargana]], previously named after the neighbouring village of [[Sarosi]]; [[C.A. Elliott]] wrote in 1862 that the name change had "recently become habitual" at the time.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

At the turn of the 20th century, Sikandarpur was described as one of the main villages in its namesake pargana.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> It had a lower primary school and a temple to Mahadeo, and its population as of 1901 was 1,727, including a Muslim minority of 263.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> [[Brahmin]]s were the most numerous caste at the time.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Unnao district}}

[[Category:Villages in Unnao district]]

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