| Kahinjar | |
| Other Name: | Kahanjara, Kahanjar |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | India Uttar Pradesh |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Coordinates: | 26.1922°N 80.8032°W[1] |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Uttar Pradesh |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Raebareli |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.258 |
| Population Total: | 2099 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Hindi |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Registration Plate: | UP-35 |
Kahinjar is a village in Sareni block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India.[2] It is located 20 km from Lalganj, the tehsil headquarters. Kahinjar historically served as the headquarters of a mahal since at least the time of Akbar, before being merged into the pargana of Sareni under the Nawabs of Awadh.[3] As of 2011, Kahinjar has a population of 2,099 people, in 354 households.[2] It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities.[2] It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Rasulpur.
Kahinjar is the Kahanjara mentioned in the late-16th-century Ain-i-Akbari as one of the mahals in the sarkar of Lucknow.[3] It was held by the Bais Rajputs and paid a revenue of 818,472 dams to the imperial treasury and supplied the Mughal army with a force of 2,000 infantry and 100 cavalry.[4] It was later merged with three other mahals to form the pargana of Sareni under the Nawabs of Awadh.[3]
The 1951 census recorded Kahinjar as comprising 5 hamlets, with a total population of 727 people (392 male and 335 female), in 136 households and 119 physical houses.[5] The area of the village was given as 570 acres.[5] 35 residents were literate, all male.[5] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Sareni and the thana of Sareni.[5]
The 1961 census recorded Kahinjar as comprising 5 hamlets, with a total population of 830 people (439 male and 432 female), in 156 households and 141 physical houses.[6] The area of the village was given as 570 acres.[6]
The 1981 census recorded Kahinjar as having a population of 1,254 people, in 203 households, and having an area of 228.65 hectares.[7] The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.[7]
The 1991 census recorded Kahinjar as having a total population of 1,481 people (720 male and 761 female), in 231 households and 231 physical houses.[8] The area of the village was listed as 228 hectares.[8] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 282, or 19% of the total; this group was 53% male (149) and 47% female (133).[8] Members of scheduled castes made up 35% of the village's population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.[8] The literacy rate of the village was 42% (382 men and 244 women).[8] 411 people were classified as main workers (327 men and 84 women), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 1,070 residents were non-workers.[8] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 178 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 207 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; 2 household industry workers; 3 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 1 construction worker; 3 employed in trade and commerce; 0 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 27 in other services.[8]