11-484: Andani ( Andanī ) is a village in Karhal block of Mainpuri district , Uttar Pradesh. As of 2011, it had a population of 2,515, in 440 households. As of 2011, Andani had a population of 2,515, in 440 households. This population was 55.1% male (1,385) and 44.9% female (1,130). The 0-6 age group numbered 299 (175 male and 124 female), or 11.9% of the total population. 393 residents were members of Scheduled Castes, or 15.6% of
22-592: A post office but no public library; there was at least some access to electricity for all purposes. Streets were made of pakka materials. Karhal Karhal is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Mainpuri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . It is also a tehsil that is subdivided into two blocks , Karhal and Barnahal. It is one of the Vidhan Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh. The nearest town to Karhal
33-568: Is Saifai . It is situated on the State Highway 83 . Karhal is an alternate name for the main or mainphal tree, Randia dumetorum . This tree is very common in Mainpuri district, and the town was presumably named because the site was once covered with karhal trees. Karhal was historically a tappa (subdivision) of the Mughal-era pargana of Haveli Etawah; by the turn of the 20th century, it
44-724: The Khera, or old town; the Qazi Mohalla, named because it contained the old house of the town's former qazi , the Mualliman mohalla, named after an esteemed local family of teachers who, according to local tradition, invented the shikasta form of the Perso-Arabic script; the Bhutela and Birtia mohallas, each named after a Brahmin clan who traditionally lived there; the Khakroh, or sweeper's quarter; and
55-604: The Singhi mohalla, named after a Bania subcaste. As of 2011, Karhal has 1 hospital with 10 beds, 35 medicine shops, 10 schools teaching at the primary level, and 2 schools teaching at the secondary level. There is no public library; the closest one is in Etawah. Drinking water is provided by hand pump, tube well, and borehole. The town has a local fire department. Saras is the bird species have 2/3 of population in Karhal. Saman Bird Sanctuary
66-435: The city depend on agriculture and related products. Farmers grow the wheat, patati, tomato, garlic, onion, paddy, matured crops. Ginger, banana, sugar cane, cabbage, torhi, laouki are minor seasonal crops. Cold storage is a major food storage unit in Karhal. A local Karhal Subzi Mandi maintains the daily need of fresh vegetables and fruits of the city and neighborhood local area. The town's neighbourhoods, or mohallas , include
77-528: The prominent merchants' houses, primarily belonging to members of Saraogi subgroup of the Banias, and the spired temples in this areas were described as being visible from a long way off. As of the 2011 census , Karhal had a population of 27,701. This population was 52.2% male (14,456) and 47.8% female (13,245). The 0-6 age group numbered 3,616 (1,873 male and 1,743 female), or 13.1% of the total population. 4,852 residents were members of Scheduled Castes, or 17.5% of
88-433: The total. The 1961 census recorded Andani as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 1,081 people (578 male and 503 female), in 202 households and 160 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 1,297 acres. As of 2011, Andani had 3 primary schools; it did not have any kind of healthcare facility. Drinking water was provided by well, hand pump, and tube well; there were no public toilets. The village had
99-428: The total. The town's literacy rate was 72.3% (counting only people age 7 and up). As of 2011, the entire Karhal tehsil had a population of 331,718, making it the least populous tehsil in the district. The overall population predominantly rural, with 91.65% of the population (304,017 people) living in rural areas and 8.35% (27,701 people) living in Karhal town, the tehsil's sole urban area. The tehsil's overall sex ratio
110-622: Was 875 females to every 1000 males. Its literacy rate was 73.97%; there was an 18.5% gender literacy gap, with 82.6% of males but only 64.1% of females capable of reading and writing. This discrepancy was significantly higher in rural areas (19.35%) than in urban ones (9.46%). The total area of Karhal tehsil is 551.92 sq.km and the population density is 601 per sq.km. The most important commodities produced in Karhal are wheat flour and rice products. As of 2009, Karhal had 2 nationalised banks, 1 private commercial bank, 2 cooperative banks , and 5 agricultural credit societies . Major populations of
121-408: Was itself the seat of both a pargana and a tehsil. At that time, Karhal was described as having a busy trade in ghee and cotton, with market days twice per week. Glass and saltpetre were manufactured here. The town had a Sanskrit school run by Jains, two other schools, a dispensary , a police station, and a sarai (inn) which had a whole gated enclosure with a mosque and a well. Behind the bazar were
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