Jagdishpur is a town, community development block, and former pargana in Musafirkhana tehsil of Amethi district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also called Nihalgarh, Chak Jangla, or Nihalgarh-Jagdispur. The distinction is that Jagdishpur was the original village, Chak Jangla was an outlying hamlet of Jagdishpur, and Nihalgarh was a fort built in Chak Jangla in the early 1700s and that no longer exists. The town is located at the crossroads between the Lucknow-Jaunpur and Raebareli-Faizabad highways.
History Jagdishpur was originally named after a Brahmin zamindar named Jagdis who lived at the time when the area was ruled by the Bhars. In 1715, the Bhale Sultan leader Nihal Khan established a fort at the outlying hamlet of Chak Jangla. He named the fort Nihalgarh after himself, and a town sprang up around it that came to eclipse Jagdishpur proper. In 1750, the tehsildar Mirza Latif Beg besieged and captured Nihalgarh; he then made it his residence. Up to that time, there had been two parganas in the area at Kishni and Sathin (or Satanpur), but either Nihal Khan or Mirza Latif Beg united the two parganas into one based at Jagdishpur. Sometime after 1750 but before the 20th century, the fort of Nihalgarh was torn down.
At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Jagdishpur/Nihalgarh had a police station, a middle vernacular school with about 150 students, and a registration office located at the Gulabganj sarai. It also had a small bazar, which mostly dealt in everyday goods like food and clothing, as well as brass vessels made by the Thatheras. There was only one masonry house, which had been built by a wealthy Agarwal Bania named Balmukand who had acquired a small estate by purchase and mortgage. Balmukand's successor, Bibi Rampiari, owned seven villages and two pattis in the area at the time. As of 1901, the population of the town was 2,121 people, including 1,168 Muslims.
The 1951 census recorded Jagdishpur as having a district board-run primary school, with 197 students in attendance as of 1 January of the year.
The 1961 census recorded Jagdishpur as having a police force of 2 sub-inspectors, 1 head constable, and 14 constables. It had a dispensary run by a local body with 12 male beds and 8 female beds, a maternity and child welfare centre, and a post office. Average attendance of the Dussehra festival was about 1,500 people then.
Villages Jagdishpur CD block has the following 91 villages:
Village name Total land area (hectares) Population (in 2011) Banbhariya 756.9 4,800 Sitauli 358.8 2,338 Dhudehri 326.9 3,087 Rajkheta 108 725 Palia Paschim 477.8 3,541 Koilesh Mubaraqpur 499.3 3,841 Sendurwa 494 5,506 Kamrauli 396.3 4,453 Utelwa 429.2 2,552 Niyawa 209.9 2,760 Sarai Alam 120.9 652 Ankara 70.6 701 Shahpur Allad Husain 107.3 793 Mangrauli 97 1,783 Bagmira 108 1,255 Rasta Mau 274.7 3,943 Lakhanipur 155.4 1,817 Daulatpur Nisura 358.9 3,169 Pure Moti Shukul 30.2 366 Mirapur 199.5 1,058 Gadriya Dih 314.5 4,187 Deokali 269.8 4,602 Mau Atwara 554.6 4,551 Makhdum Pur 117.8 865 Nihal Pur 82.6 1,525 Mohuddinpur 70.8 854 Katehti 237.5 2,658 Ashrafpur 86.1 1,224 Matiyari Kalan 207.6 1,165 Pichhuti 421.4 2,686 Nasirabad 128.5 870 Kachnaaw 530.2 4,989 Thauri 731.4 6,916 Dichauli 503.3 4,346 Alinagar 80.3 1,024 Purab Gaon 224.8 2,680 Jalalpur Mafi 79.6 691 Bhikhanpur 66.7 1,643 Daulatpur Lonhat 407.5 6,910 Moh Mau 390.1 4,412 Husain Ganj Kalan 480.2 4,009 Namadar Pur 46.8 722 Kaima 307.6 2,332 Imli Gaon 373.9 4,386 Bechu Garh 163.6 1,237 Tanda 558.9 5,851 Khairatpur 183.2 2,278 Parwej Pur 126.5 1,039 Mangauli 359.4 2,866 Sohrat Singh 27.5 1,175 Ranka Pur 76.3 835 Mohabbat Pur 353.9 2,341 Misharauli 269.2 2,120 Bagahi 258.1 2,292 Sindhiyawan 466.8 7,418 Arifpur 23.7 296 Loshan Pur 90.8 461 Garha 83.7 874 Malawa 113.3 1,496 Mangraura 128.6 1,585 Sarai Hetan 42.3 447 Dulari Nagar 835.8 2,846 Jalal Pur Tiwari 362.4 3,588 Urwa 135.1 1,047 Nisura 205.9 2,283 Mirapur Nisura 41.6 288 Mubarakpur 102.4 1,658 Maraucha Tetarpur 236.3 1,216 Uttar Gaon 305.1 3,272 Siryari 119.9 1,094 Saresar 176.8 2,971 Mohammad Pur 108.6 701 Kapuripur 102.8 1,235 Purab Gaon 89.7 779 Badhauli 215.6 2,111 Mudupur Umraula 381 2,938 Naudand 328.6 2,948 Rampur Gosai 55.7 473 Babu Pur Sharia 180.4 2,672 Khau Pur 148.4 761 Shesh Pur 98 1,315 Hasawa Sukhn Pur 165.4 1,721 Hasan Pur Jareye 78.5 338 Itraur 204.4 2,105 Dakkhin Gaon Mau 323.1 3,443 Harimau 246.7 4,001 Gunge Mau 195.4 1,893 Gaimau 255.6 1,617
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