Shukul Bazar (original) (raw)

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Town in Uttar Pradesh, India

Shukul Bazar Bāzār Shukul
Town
Map showing Shukul Bazar CD block
Shukul BazarLocation in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 26°36′10″N 81°34′57″E / 26.602751°N 81.582598°E / 26.602751; 81.582598[1]
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Division	Faizabad division
District	Sultanpur
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Urdu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Shukul Bazar, also called Bazar Shukul or more rarely Mawaiya-Rahmatgarh, is a town[2] and community development block[3] in Musafirkhana tehsil of Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[3][2] It is located on the road from Inhauna to Rudauli.[2]

At the turn of the 20th century, Shukul Bazar was described as the only real town in the otherwise mostly rural tehsil of Musafirkhana.[2] It had an important market and was the headquarters of a police thana which, despite its small jurisdiction, was very busy due to a lot of unrest in the area.[2] It also had a post office and one of the largest schools in the tehsil.[2]

The market at Shukul Bazar is held on Wednesdays and Sundays and mostly deals in cloth.[4] As of 1961, it had an average attendance of around 500 people.[4] At that point, the town also had a government-run dispensary with 2 beds for males and 2 for females, and it had a police force consisting of 1 sub-inspector, 1 head constable, and 12 constables.[4]

Sukul bazar, founded about a century ago by some members of a well to do Sukul ( Brahmin ) family . It shared with Perkinsginj the advantage of being near the Gumti .

Shukul Bazar CD block has the following 71 villages:[3]

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2. ^ a b c d e f Nevill, H.R. (1903). Sultanpur: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XLVI Of The District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh. Allahabad: Government Press. pp. 185, 199–201. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
3. ^ a b c "Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Sultanpur, Part A (Village and Town Directory)" (PDF). Census 2011 India. pp. 77–93. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
4. ^ a b c Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (44 - Sultanpur District) (PDF). Lucknow. 1965. pp. 118, 121, 147. Retrieved 13 November 2021.{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)