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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Ajgain
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| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Nawabganj block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Ajgain (#014) in Nawabganj CD block
| pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.619277|N|80.62869|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="GeoNames">{{cite web |url=https://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ |website=Search for "Ajgain" here}}</ref>
| subdivision_type = Country India
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Unnao district|Unnao]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
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| area_total_km2 = 3.244
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| population_total = 8926
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
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| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
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| registration_plate = UP-35
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'''Ajgain''' is a village in [[Nawabganj, Unnao|Nawabganj]] block of [[Unnao district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref name="Census 2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Unnao, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=237–61 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> It is located northeast of [[Unnao]], near the main [[Lucknow]]-[[Kanpur]] road.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903">{{cite book |last1=Nevill |first1=H.R. |title=Unao: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XXXVIII Of The District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh |date=1903 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |pages=141, 189–90 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113180 |access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> It has a railway station on the Lucknow-Kanpur line, lying between [[Sonik]] and [[Kusumbhi]].<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (37 - Unnao District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=127, 136, 156, lviii-lvix of section "Hasanganj Tehsil", cxxiv, cxxvi-cxxvii |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1040/1/21887_1961_UNN.pdf |access-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> It holds a market on Mondays and Fridays, with grain and vegetables being the main items of trade.<ref name="Census 1961"/> As of 2011, the population of Ajgain is 8,926, in 1,481 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

== History ==
Ajgain was originally called '''Bhanpara''' after its founder Bhan Singh, who was a Dikhit.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> It was renamed at the behest of an astrologer to be more auspicious; the present name is derived from ''Aja'', a name of [[Brahma]] the creator.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> Ajgaon was made the headquarters of a [[pargana]] after Beni Bahadur Kayasth, the chief minister of [[Shuja-ud-Daula]], was granted a [[jagir]] in the existing pargana of [[Jhalotar]] in 1770.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> The two parganas were rejoined upon the British annexation of [[Oudh State]] in the 1850s, and from then on the combined pargana bore the name Jhalotar-Ajgain.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

At the turn of the 20th century, Ajgain was described as a large village, with a population of 2,431 people in 1901.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/> It had a train station by then, to the northwest of the village, and it also had a police [[thana]] and an upper primary school with about 70 students.<ref name="Gazetteer 1903"/>

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Ajgain as comprising 7 hamlets, with a total population of 2,612 (1,372 male and 1,240 female), in 511 households and 456 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 810 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/> It had a medical practitioner and a post office then.<ref name="Census 1961"/> It had one [[grain mill]], one small miscellaneous [[food processing]] establishment, and nine [[bicycle repair shop]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/> Average attendance of the twice-weekly market was about 700 people.<ref name="Census 1961"/> It had a police force consisting of 2 sub-inspectors, 1 head constable, and 15 constables at the time.<ref name="Census 1961"/>

==References==
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{{Unnao district}}

[[Category:Villages in Unnao district]]

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