Kumhrawan

Kumhrawan is a village in Shivgarh block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Formerly a pargana headquarters, it consists of a main village and several scattered hamlets. As of 2011, Kumhrawan has a population of 2,441, in 426 households.

History

Kumhrawan was for a long time the seat of a taluqdar estate held by a branch of the Amethia Rajputs. It originally was in the pargana of Haidergarh, but under the nazim Almas Ali Khan it was split off to form a separate pargana because of conflicts between the Amethia taluqdars of Kumhrawan and Pokhra Ansari. Kumhrawan lost its status as headquarters of the taluqdars when a fort was built at Sheogarh to the west; the old fort at Kumhrawan was then abandoned and by the early 1900s it no longer existed and its location had become farmland. By that point it was described as a minor village with a population of 763 as of the 1901 census.
The 1961 census recorded Kumhrawan as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 984 people, in 198 households and 184 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 743 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Kumhrawan as having a population of 1,271 people, in 238 households, and having an area of 300.68 hectares.