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{{distinguish|Jakhan}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Jakhau
| official_name =
| other_name = Jakhan, Juckow
| settlement_type = village
| image_skyline =
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| pushpin_map = India Gujarat#India
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India
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| coordinates = {{coord|23|13|07|N|68|43|01|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[Taluka]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kutch District|Kutch]] (Kachchh)
| subdivision_name3 = [[Abdasa Taluka|Abdasa]]
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| governing_body = Gram Panchayat
| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{Citation|date=August 1981|title=Lakhpat, India, Sheet NF 42-2|series=Series 1501|publisher=United States Defense Mapping Agency|format=topographic map, scale 1:250,000|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/jog/india/nf-42-2-lakhpat-india.jpg}}</ref>
| elevation_m = 15
| population_total = 4076
| population_as_of = 2001
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 370640
| registration_plate = [[List of RTO districts in India#GJ.E2.80.94Gujarat|GJ]]-12
| blank1_name_sec1 = Nearest city
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Bhuj]]
| website = {{URL|gujaratindia.com}}
| footnotes =
| demographics1_info1 = [[Kutchi language|kutchi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Kachchh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kachchh]]
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Gujarat Legislative Assembly|Vidhan Sabha]] constituency
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Abdasa (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Abdasa]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Assembly Constituencies-Post delimitation, State: Gujarat, District: Ahmadabad |publisher=National Information Centre, Government of India |url=http://gisserver1.nic.in/ecimaps/ECIPDF%5CGujarat_Maps%5CAhmadabad.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224204207/http://gisserver1.nic.in/ecimaps/ECIPDF/Gujarat_Maps/Ahmadabad.pdf |archivedate=2012-12-24 }}</ref>
| blank4_name_sec1 = Civic agency
| blank4_info_sec1 = Gram Panchayat
}}
'''Jakhau''' (''Ja-kha-oo'', pronounced as Ja-kho by locals) is a village in [[Gujarat]], western India. Administratively, it is under [[Abdasa Taluka]], [[Kutch District]], of Gujarat.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Villages of Abdasa Taluka|publisher=Kutch District|url=http://kutchdp.gujarat.gov.in/kutch/english/abdasa-taluka.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707074232/http://kutchdp.gujarat.gov.in/kutch/english/abdasa-taluka.htm|archivedate=7 July 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Jakhau is 17 km by road west-southwest of [[Naliya]], the taluka headquarters. Jakhau Salt, the port of Jakhau, is situated a further 15 km westwards.

==History==
The village and port are named after the legendary [[Jakh Botera]] who were shipwrecked on the Kutch coast and came ashore at Jakhau. Variously described as tall and fair-complexioned with an advanced culture (hence why locals name them Yakshas-demigods), their traditional number is 72 with at least one woman. Their origins are obscure-but one school of thought is that they were of zerthotrians iraani or parsi origins and good at horsemenship, medicine and archery. One cruel king puanra is said to have been controlled/put to an end by them-thus they attained gods status in region.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Simpson, Edward |year=2009|chapter=Chapter 1. Texts, Machinations and the Past|title=Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh|location=London|publisher=Routledge|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=dtI1ynX9x-UC&pg=PA40 40]|isbn=978-0-415-54377-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Dilipsinh, K. S.|year=2004|title=Kutch: In Festival And Custom|location=New Delhi|publisher=Har-Anand Publications|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=oPUFiGRH07IC&pg=PA59 59–60]|isbn=978-81-241-0998-4}}</ref>

In the [[Middle Ages]], Jakhau was a thriving port and [[Warehouse|warehousing]] village.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Mehta, Lyla|year=2005|chapter=Water and Identity in Kutch|title=The Politics and Poetics of Water: The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India|location=New Delhi|publisher=Orient Longman|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=G-wgujkjzZkC&pg=PA69 69]|isbn=978-81-250-2869-7}}</ref> However, as Godia Creek silted up and ships increased in size, trade went to the dredged port at [[Mandvi]] instead and south to [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai). Exports were mostly salt<ref>{{Cite book|author=Aggarwal, Shugan Chand|year=1976|title=The Salt Industry in India|edition=third|location=New Delhi|publisher=Controller of Publications, Government of India|page=201|oclc=427303131}}</ref> cotton, millet, and [[Castor oil|castor bean oil]] and later cloth and tobacco, while imports were mostly rice, lumber and dried fruit, and some sugar.<ref name="gbp">{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210|year=1880|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press|page=223}}</ref>

The [[1998 Gujarat cyclone]] helped to further destroy the port. The major occupation is now fishing.<ref>{{Cite web|author=Fishmarc & Kutch Nav Nirman Abhiyan|year=2010|title=Kutch Coast – People, Environment & Livelihoods|url=http://www.ceeindia.org/cee/pdf_files/kutch_coast_study.pdf}}</ref>

==Demographics==
In the 2001 census, the village of Jakhau had 4,076 inhabitants, with 2,032 males (49.9%) and 2,044 females (50.1%), for a gender ratio of 1006 females per thousand males.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Census 2001 Population Finder: Gujarat: Kachchh: Abdasa: Jakhau|publisher=Office of The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/PopulationFinder/View_Village_Population.aspx?pcaid=631104&category=VILLAGE|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531204647/http://censusindia.gov.in/PopulationFinder/View_Village_Population.aspx?pcaid=631104&category=VILLAGE|archivedate=31 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Port of Jakhau]]

==Notes==
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{{Abdasa Taluka}}

[[Category:Villages in Kutch district]]

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