Pilkha is a village in Dalmau block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[2] It is located 9 km from Lalganj, the nearest large town.[3] As of 2011, it has a population of 2,122 people, in 375 households.[2] It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities and does not host a permanent market or weekly haat.[2]

Pilkha
Village
Map showing Pilkha (#885) in Dalmau CD block
Pilkha Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 26.2093°N 81.018983°E / 26.2093; 81.018983[1]
Country India	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Raebareli
Area [2]
• Total	1.951 km2 (0.753 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	2,122
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	UP-35

History

Pilkha was founded by Mohan Singh, a ninth-generation descendant of the Bais ruler Rana Doman Deo through his fourth son Tribhuban Sah.[4] Tribhuban Sah had originally been given the village of Jagatpur Kotaha for his maintenance, but his descendants failed in their attempts to form a taluqa.[4] After Mohan Singh founded Pilkha, the village was taken over by the Rana of Khajurgaon.[4] Later, Thakur Maharaj Bakhsh obtained the sanad for Pilkha and three other villages.[4]

The 1951 census recorded Pilkha as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 804 people (402 male and 402 female), in 177 households and 156 physical houses.[5] The area of the village was given as 489 acres.[5] 84 residents were literate, 76 male and 8 female.[5] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Dalmau and the thana of Dalmau.[5] There was a primary school at that point, which had an attendance of 93 students on 1 January of that year.[5]

The 1961 census recorded Pilkha as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 834 people (425 male and 409 female), in 183 households and 167 physical houses.[6] The area of the village was given as 489 acres.[6]

The 1981 census recorded Pilkha as having a population of 1,180 people, in 224 households, and having an area of 195.06 hectares.[3] The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.[3]

The 1991 census recorded Pilkha as having a total population of 1,343 people (659 male and 684 female), in 254 households and 242 physical houses.[7] The area of the village was listed as 195 hectares.[7] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 290, or 22% of the total; this group was 50% male (145) and 50% female (145).[7] Members of scheduled castes numbered 512, or 38% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.[7] The literacy rate of the village was 27% (262 men and 96 women).[7] 523 people were classified as main workers (316 men and 207 women), while 131 people were classified as marginal workers (8 men and 123 women); the remaining 689 residents were non-workers.[7] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 395 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 56 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 36 household industry workers; 5 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0 construction workers; 5 employed in trade and commerce; 1 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 25 in other services.[7]

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