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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Simarpaha
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| map_caption = Map showing Simarpaha (#839) in Lalganj CD block
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Raebareli district|Raebareli]]
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| area_total_km2 = 7.869
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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'''Simarpaha''' is a village in [[Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh|Lalganj]] 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=288–306 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0927_PART_A_DCHB_RAE%20BARELI.pdf |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> It is located 3 km<ref name="Census 1981" /> southwest of Lalganj on the road to [[Ralpur]] on the [[Ganges]].<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, 75, 225 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35020 |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> In addition to the main site, the village also includes several dispersed hamlets.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Simarpaha was historically the seat of a [[taluqdar]]i estate held by a branch of the [[Bais (Rajput clan)|Bais]] Rajputs.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> As of 2011, it has a population of 8,391 people, in 1,501 households.<ref name="Census 2011" /> It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities.<ref name="Census 2011" />

== History ==
Simarpaha was historically the seat of a [[taluqdar]]i estate held by a branch of the [[Bais (Rajput clan)|Bais]] Rajputs.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The Simarpaha branch was founded by Rudra Sah, the younger brother of Rana Doman Deo, who was the ancestor of the [[Khajurgaon]] branch.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Rudra Sah founded Shahpur and dispossessed his cousins of the villages that had been assigned to them for support; he was a powerful ruler noted for his conquests.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> His inheritance was divided several generations later, between his great-grandsons Pirthi Raj and Hindupat.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Pirthi Raj received Simarpaha, while Hindupat received [[Chandania]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

In the early 1800s, Pirthi Raj's fifth-generation descendant Lalji acquired a large territory and founded the market called [[Lalganj, Uttar Pradesh|Lalganj]], which became the main commercial hub in [[Baiswara]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> His son and successor Fateh Bahadur died childless, as did his adopted successor Basant Singh who died during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Basant Singh's widow was Thakurain Dariao Kunwar, an [[Amethia]] from the [[Birsinghpur]] dynasty, and she obtained the ''[[Sanad (deed)|sanad]]'' for the Simarpaha estate.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> When she died in 1893, the ''sanad'' passed to Thakur Sher Bahadur Singh of Chandania.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Dariao Kunwar had previously adopted him as her successor, but she had later renounced this; she had also named him in her will but repudiated this in 1866 and again in 1873.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> As a result, her closest Amethia relative, Raja Rameshwar Bakhsh Singh of Birsinghpur, successfully sued Sher Bahadur for control of the Simarpaha estate.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Sher Bahadur appealed but died in 1903, leaving the estate in Rameshwar Bakhsh Singh's possession for the time being.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

At the turn of the 20th century, Simarpaha was described as a large and scattered village in the [[pargana]] of [[Dalmau]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> It had a primary school at that point, but no other civic buildings.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The population as of 1901 was 2,451 people, including a Muslim minority of 195; the largest Hindu group was the [[Chamar]]s.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The Simarpaha estate was at that point held by Rameshwar Baksh Singh of Birsinghpur ("to the great resentment of the Bais"), but the taluqa did not include all the village lands — the rest was held in joint [[zamindar]]i tenure by Bais tenants.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Simarpaha (as "Semar Paha") as comprising 14 hamlets, with a total population of 3,618 people (1,774 male and 1,844 female), in 690 households and 590 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (39 – Raebareli District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=lxxvi-lxxvii of section "Dalmau Tahsil" |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1047/1/22852_1961_RAE.pdf |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 1,947 [[acre]]s and it had a post office at that point.<ref name="Census 1961" />

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Simarpaha (as "Semarpaha") as having a population of 5,193 people, in 934 households, and having an area of 787.92 [[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=154–5 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1298/1/50861_1981_RAE.pdf |access-date=17 August 2021}}</ref> The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.<ref name="Census 1981" />

== References ==
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{{Raebareli district}}

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

Simarpaha - Revision history

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