Auraiya Pincodes

Located in the Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh state, India, Auraiya comprises both a city and a municipal board. The town center is traversed by NH 19. The closest railway station is in Phaphund. The closest airport, Saifai Airstrip, has little private usage. The Kanpur Airport is the closest commercial airport.It was the Etawah district’s tehsil headquarters before to becoming the district headquarters.  Kanpur Mandal is in charge of this district. This is the Sengar Rajputs’ heroic locale. Maharaja Jaichand Gaharwar (Rathore) of Kannauj’s sister Devkala was married to Sengar dynasty Kanardhani Maharajadhiraj Vishok Dev. This whole territory had been given to him as dowry.

History

In the Rohillas Ahmad Shah Durrani entered India in 1760 AD; the Marathas battled him in the battleground of Panipat in 1761, and he decisively defeated them. Govind Rao Pandit, among other Maratha chieftains, was killed in the incident. The Durrani chief gave the Rohilla chieftains enormous swathes of land before leaving India; Dhunde Khan got Shikohabad, while Inayat Khan, son of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, got the district of Etawah. Since the Marathas were in control of this at the time, Mullah Mohsin Khan dispatched a Rohilla force in 1762 to seize the allocated property from the Marathas.

Geography

The district of Auraiya is located in the Kanpur Division and in the southwest of Uttar Pradesh at 26.4667°N 79.5167°E. It shares borders with the districts of Jalaun to the south, Ramabai Nagar district on the east, Etawah district on the west, and Kannauj district on the north. It is located at an average elevation of 436 feet, or 133 meters. Over one-third of the 2,054 sq km (793 sq mi) Auraiya District’s land area is classified as rural. The Yamuna and Sengar rivers are the principal waterways that traverse the district.

Economy

In Dibiyapur and Auraiya, the rice and dal mills are operating efficiently. Other than these mills, the Auraiya district has a few small-scale companies that produce cement products and steel furniture at various locations. From Agra and Kanpur, raw materials are imported for these small-scale enterprises. Mostly, rice, lentils, and desi ghee are shipped in bulk to neighboring states and districts. Due to its affordability and high quality, wooden furniture is produced extensively in the city of Auraiya and is well-liked in the markets of the surrounding areas.

Culture

Popular folk music genres, such as the Allaha, Phaag, Kajari, and Rasiyas, which are sung throughout the district at various seasons of the year, are also popular throughout the western U.P. In the villages, folk tunes called Dhola, Unchari, and Langadia are also widely performed. The people in the district enjoy listening to bhajans and Kirtan performed in unison on musical instruments. A frequent element of rural life in the district is the numerous open-air concerts that combine folk music and dancing with a central subject specific to the area.

Demography

There were 87,736 people living in Auraiya as of the 2011 India census. 53% of the population is male, and 47% is female. The average literacy rate in Auraiya is 87.25%, which is higher than the 74.37% national average. Of the literate population, 90.88% are men and 83.23% are women. The percentage of the population under six is 12.16 percent.