Rajapur, Ghazipur


Rajapur is a Village in Mohammadabad Tehsil in Ghazipur District of Uttar Pradesh State, India. It belongs to Varanasi Division. It is located 28 km towards east from District headquarters Ghazipur. Rajapur has total 835 families residing. The Rajapur village has population of 4872 of which 2487 are males while 2385 are females as per Population Census 2011.

History

Rajapur was established by Shrikant Rai Vats around 1715 A.D. with the blessing of Goril Baba as per genealogical records. He moved from Raini-Amari village of Azamgarh district to this place. This village is considered one of the Baavano Dronvar villages.
Rajapur is known for farmers, army men, Pahlwan, doctors, famous engineers and also known for freedom fighters. In freedom fighter doctor Vikrama Rai was a freedom fighter got jailed at only 14-years-old in 1932 Ghazipur; after that he was in Jaunpur, Karachi, and Lahore jails in Pakistan, and served as doctor for freedom fighters. S. Mishra was also a freedom fighter.

Administration

This village is administrated by Gram Panchayat through its Pradhan who is elected representative of village. Geeta Rai is the Pradhan of this village panchayat.

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