Village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Khanpur Khusti is a village in Khiron block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[2] It is located 14 km from Lalganj, the tehsil headquarters.[3] As of 2011, it has a population of 1,723 people, in 315 households.[2] It has 1 primary school and no healthcare facilities and does not host a weekly haat or a permanent market.[2] It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Deogaon.[4]
The 1951 census recorded Khanpur Khusti as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 721 people (363 male and 358 female), in 154 households and 152 physical houses.[5] The area of the village was given as 462 acres.[5] 97 residents were literate, 89 male and 8 female.[5] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Khiron and the thana of Gurbakshganj.[5] Khanpur Khusti's primary school had 98 students as of 1 January of that year.[5]
The 1961 census recorded Khanpur Khusti as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 820 people (412 male and 408 female), in 167 households and 152 physical houses.[6] The area of the village was given as 462 acres and it had a medical practitioner at the time.[6]
The 1981 census recorded Khanpur Khusti (as "Khanpur Khusthi") as having a population of 1,071 people, in 206 households, and having an area of 188.58 hectares.[3] The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.[3]
The 1991 census recorded Khanpur Khusti (as "Khanpur Khunti") as having a total population of 1,176 people (591 male and 585 female), in 212 households and 211 physical houses.[4] The area of the village was listed as 179 hectares.[4] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 226, or 19% of the total; this group was 46% male (105) and 54% female (121).[4] Members of scheduled castes numbered 249, or 21% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.[4] The literacy rate of the village was 42% (352 men and 144 women).[4] 410 people were classified as main workers (304 men and 106 women), while 204 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 562 residents were non-workers.[4] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 211 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 138 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 30 household industry workers; 0 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0 construction workers; 2 employed in trade and commerce; 6 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 23 in other services.[4]
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