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| name = Semrauta
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| nickname = Semrauta
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| map_caption = Map showing Semrauta (#068) in Tiloi 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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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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| postal_code = 229126<ref name="Census 2011" />
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'''Semrauta''' is a village in [[Tiloi]] 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=142–58 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0927_PART_A_DCHB_RAE%20BARELI.pdf |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> It is located at the intersection of the [[Maharajganj, Raebareli|Maharajganj]]-[[Inhauna]] and [[Mohanganj]]-[[Haidargarh]] roads,<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=81–2, 86–7, 139–40, 226–8 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35020 |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> about 20 km from Maharajganj, the tehsil headquarters.<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=52–3 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1298/1/50861_1981_RAE.pdf |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> Although now eclipsed by Maharajganj, Semrauta was historically a relatively important village that served as the headquarters of a [[pargana]] and the capital of a branch of the [[Kanhpuria]] Rajputs, who later became known as the Rajas of [[Chandapur]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> As of 2011, the population of Simrauta is 6,423, in 1,031 households.<ref name="Census 2011" />

Semrauta hosts a [[Dhanush Yagya]] festival annually on [[Agrahayana]] Sudi 15.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (39 – Raebareli District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=166–7, 173, xxii-xxiii of section "Maharajganj Tahsil"|url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1047/1/22852_1961_RAE.pdf |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> It is dedicated to worship of [[Rama]].<ref name="Census 1961" /> Vendors bring sweets, toys, and everyday items to sell at the fair.<ref name="Census 1961" /> Siemrauta also hosts a general market twice per week, on Wednesdays and Sundays.<ref name="Census 1961" />

== History ==
Semrauta was historically the seat of a [[pargana]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> At the time of [[Akbar]] in the late 1500s, the area that would later form the pargana was then split between the ''mahal''s of [[Jais]] (in the [[Sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]] of [[Manikpur, Uttar Pradesh|Manikpur]]) and [[Subeha]] (in the sarkar of [[Awadh]]).<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

Simrauta was also the seat of a [[taluqdar]]i estate held by a branch of the [[Kanhpuria]] Rajputs.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> According to tradition, five generations after the original Kanhpuria conquest of the region, the clan's territories were divided between three brothers: Janga Singh, the oldest, received [[Tiloi]]; Man Singh, the second-oldest, received [[Atheha, India|Atheha]] (in today's [[Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh|Pratapgarh district]]), and Madan Singh, the youngest, received Simrauta.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> For several generations, basically nothing is known about the Simrauta branch.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The sixth-generation descendant, Jagat Singh, supposedly was in good standing with the Mughal emperor.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> The Simrauta estate was later divided between the brothers Mandhata Singh and Jaswant Singh, who were Jagat Singh's grandsons and contemporaries of [[Saadat Ali Khan I]], the first [[Nawab of Awadh]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Mandhata Singh received Simrauta, while his younger brother Jaswant Singh founded the [[Siwan, Raebareli|Siwan]] estate.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Mandhata Singh was in good standing with the Nawab, and was given a ''[[Mansabdar|mansab]]'' of 7,000.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> At some point, the Simrauta taluqdars shifted their main residence to [[Chandapur, Raebareli|Chandapur]].<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

At the turn of the 20th century, Simrauta was described as a mostly agricultural village with a small market.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Maharajganj had overtaken it by that point.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> It had a large primary school and belonged to the Raja of Chandapur, who had a residence on the east side of the village.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" /> Simrauta's population in 1901 was 2,886 people, including a large proportion of [[Brahmin]]s.<ref name="Gazetteer 1905" />

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Simrauta (under the spelling "Semrauta") as comprising 8 hamlets, with a total population of 2,573 people (1,297 male and 1,276 female), in 573 households and 565 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961" /> The area of the village was given as 1,560 [[acre]]s and it had a post office at the time.<ref name="Census 1961" /> Average attendance of the annual Dhanush Yagya festival was then about 1,000 people, while average attendance of the twice-weekly market was about 100.<ref name="Census 1961" />

The [[1981 Census of India|1981 census]] recorded Simrauta (again as "Semrauta") as having a population of 2,897 people, in 706 households, and having an area of 631.31 [[hectare]]s.<ref name="Census 1981" />

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Raebareli district}}

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

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