For the village in the Barabanki

Barabanki District

The Barabanki district is one of four districts of Faizabad division, lies at the very heart of Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and forms as it were a centre from which no less than seven other districts radiate...

 district, see Dhanauli, Barabanki.

Dhanauli is a census town

Census town

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 in Agra district

Agra District

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  in the state of Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, India

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History

Dhanauli has also been known as Dhanoli. This had been a small village for most part of the 20th Century. This small village used to revolve around a powerful family of Paliwal

Paliwal

Paliwal is a surname in India that many families have adopted from their place of origin: Pali. Pali was for many years a center of trade and commerce, located in the current state of Rajasthan in India...

s. This family controlled most of the land and the revenue coming out of it was shared with the Mughal kingdom of Agra. Paliwals migrated to Dhanauli sometime in 16th-17th century from Rajasthan. They created a small settlement and over a period became very rich and powerful. The main occupation of Paliwals was farming and money-lending.
Till late 1980s the village was fairly small. However, a caste related violence in 1991 between Jats and Jatavs, forced the Jatavs of the hinterland to move out and settle in Dhanauli which is fairly close to the Agra city.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Dhanauli had a population of 23,475. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Dhanauli has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79% and, female literacy is 55%. In Dhanauli, 19% of the population is under 6 years of age.