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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Jhalotar
| native_name =
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| nickname =
| settlement_type = Village
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| image_map = Hasanganj block map.png
| map_caption = Map showing Jhalotar (#934) in Hasanganj CD block
| pushpin_map = India Uttar Pradesh
| pushpin_label_position = right
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26|42|N|80|39|E|display=inline,title}}<ref name="Gazetteer"/>
| 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 = 1.777
| elevation_footnotes =
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| population_total = 1990
| population_as_of = 2011
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| population_density_km2 = auto
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| population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2011"/>
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code =
| registration_plate = UP-35
| website =
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'''Jhalotar''' is a village in [[Hasanganj]] 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=204–36 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/UPA.html |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> It is located just to the west of the [[Mohan, Uttar Pradesh|Mohan]]-[[Ajgain]] road, near a lake called Kundra Samundar.<ref name="Gazetteer">{{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=188–91 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.113180 |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> It hosts a weekly [[haat]] and has one primary school and no healthcare facilities.<ref name="Census 2011"/> Drinking water is provided by [[hand pump]].<ref name="Census 2011"/> As of 2011, the population of the village is 1,990, in 319 households.<ref name="Census 2011"/>

== History ==
According to tradition, the spot now occupied by Jhalotar was once a [[Butea monosperma|dhak]] jungle where a [[faqir]] named Mushtaq Shah lived.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> A [[Chamar]] man also built a house nearby, made a clearing, and started a village called "Jhali" here; the name later became Jhalotar.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> Jhalotar is listed in the [[Ain-i-Akbari]] as the seat of a [[pargana]], and at some point the [[Subahdar]] of [[Awadh]] built a fort here.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> In 1770, [[Beni Bahadur Kayasth]], the minister of the [[Nawab of Awadh]], was granted a [[jagir]] in the Jhalotar pargana, which was split off to become a new pargana based at [[Ajgain]].<ref name="Gazetteer"/> The two parganas were merged again under the [[British Raj]].<ref name="Gazetteer"/> At the turn of the 20th century, Jhalotar was described as a small village with a population of 682.<ref name="Gazetteer"/> It hosted a small market once per week.<ref name="Gazetteer"/>

The [[1961 Census of India|1961 census]] recorded Jhalotar as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 854 (445 male and 409 female), in 164 households and 153 physical houses.<ref name="Census 1961">{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (37 - Unnao District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=liv-lv of section "Hasanganj Tehsil" |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1040/1/21887_1961_UNN.pdf |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> The area of the village was given as 432 [[acre]]s.<ref name="Census 1961"/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Unnao district}}

[[Category:Villages in Unnao district]]

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