Raebareli district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
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32 Facts About Raebareli district
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Main river of Raebareli district is the Ganges, which forms the southern border of the district; the other rivers in the district are all its tributaries.
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The Maharajganj Naiya rises in the jhils near Kumhrawan in the north of the Raebareli district; it takes a meandering course towards the south before joining the Sai at the village of Makraha near Parshadepur.
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The last stream called the Naiya is the Simrauta Naiya, which originates in Barabanki Raebareli district and is a tributary of the Gomti rather than the Sai.
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Northern part of the Raebareli district generally has firm loamy or clayey soil, with rice as the staple crop.
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Raebareli district did not exist as a distinct administrative division until 1858.
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Salon remained a tehsil headquarters, as it had been under Pratapgarh Raebareli district, comprising the parganas of Salon, Parshadepur, and Rokha Jais.
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When Raebareli district was first formed, it was made the seat of Raebareli division, along with Sultanpur and Pratapgarh districts, but in 1891 this division was merged with Lucknow division.
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Rajputs that came to rule over the area of today's Raebareli district mostly belonged to three main clains: the Bais in the south and west, the Kanhpurias in the east, and the Amethias in the north.
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Raebareli district's descendants came to rule over the region known as Baiswara.
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Raebareli district posted a governor at Dalmau and went to war against the Bhars and Rajputs, and he went on to establish most of the Muslim outposts in the area.
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In 1492, the Bachgotis in what is Pratapgarh Raebareli district rebelled, and Sikandar Lodi went on a campaign against them.
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Raebareli district reached Dalmau in 1493, and fought a battle at Katghar nearby where he routed the Bachgotis.
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Raebareli district stopped at Dalmau on the way and married the widow of Sher Khan Lohani while he was there.
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At the time of the Ain-i-Akbari in the late 1500s, the area of today's Raebareli district was divided between three different sarkars in two subahs: most belonged to Manikpur sarkar in Allahabad Subah, while portions in the north and west were included in Awadh and Lucknow sarkars in Awadh Subah.
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South of Raebareli district was Dalmau, whose borders then probably corresponded fairly closely with its 20th-century borders, although some of the western part probably belonged to the Baiswara mahals of Lucknow sarkar.
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North of Salon, and bordering Raebareli district, was the pargana of Nasirabad, which included the later parganas of Parshadepur and Rokha.
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At the time of the Ain-i-Akbari, the western part of today's Raebareli district was part of Lucknow sarkar, but the correspondence here is harder to trace.
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Raebareli district put Raebareli, Dalmau, Khiron, and Thulendi under the control of the chakladar of Baiswara at about the same time.
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Raebareli district is divided into 7 tehsils and 21 community development blocks, as follows:.
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Rae Bareli Raebareli district has 9 statutory towns, including 2 Nagar Palika Parishads and 7 Nagar Panchayats.
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Raebareli district has 1,773 villages, of which 1,733 are inhabited and 40 are uninhabited.
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Raebareli district is predominantly agrarian and it produces large amounts of grain.
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The Raebareli district is self-sufficient in grain production and exports some to places like Europe, Japan, and North America.
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The district is well-suited to rice cultivation: the northern part of the district is situated in a belt of clayey soil ideal for growing rice, and in the south, the lake-studded area between Dalmau, Raebareli, and Salon is a major rice-growing region.
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Raebareli district has plenty of irrigation sources, both natural and artificial.
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The Raebareli district has a population density of 739 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Ring Road Raebareli district is an outer bypass road and crosses the Sharda River.
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Closest major airport to Raebareli district is in Lucknow at about 78 kilometres distance on the National Highway 30.
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