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Baraura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttar Pradesh.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Baraura is a village in Nawabganj mandal, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 782 and 131 households. It has a literacy rate of 55.4% and is assigned to PIN code 262406.
By population, Baraura ranks #189 of 329 villages in Nawabganj mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Baraura is a village of 782 people in 131 households (Census 2011) in Nawabganj tehsil, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, the 189th-largest of 329 villages in Nawabganj tehsil. Literacy is 55%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 52% and the sex ratio is 950 women per 1,000 men. It lies 56 km from the Bareilly district centre, 8 km from Nigohi, the nearest town, 8 km from Vazeerpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 262406, served by Nawabganj (Bareilly) post office; the LGD village code is 130513. The nearest hospital or health centre is K K Hospital and Maternity Center, 27 km away. The sarpanch is JAMUNA DEVI, and the village votes in Katra assembly constituency, represented by MLA Veer Vikram Singh. The population is estimated at 922 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Masit Wali Nagar →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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