Saidanpur
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| name = Saidanpur
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| settlement_type = Village
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| map_caption = Map showing Saidanpur (#481) in Rahi CD block
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
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| subdivision_type = Country
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| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Uttar Pradesh
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Raebareli
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| area_total_km2 = 2.779
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| population_total = 1854
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = Hindi
| timezone1 = IST
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Saidanpur is a village in Rahi block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India.{{cite web |title=Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Rae Bareli, Part A (Village and Town Directory) |pages=219–43 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/09/0927_PART_A_DCHB_RAE%20BARELI.pdf |website=Census 2011 India|access-date=10 August 2021}} It is located 9 km from Rae Bareli, the district headquarters. As of 2011, it has a population of 1,854 people, in 330 households. It has one primary school and no medical facilities. It hosts a permanent market but not a weekly haat. It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Khagipur Sandwa.
The 1951 census recorded Saidanpur as comprising 3 hamlets, with a population of 658 people (333 male and 325 female), in 156 households and 152 physical houses.{{cite book |title=Census of India, 1951: District Census Handbook Uttar Pradesh (42 - Rae Bareli District) |date=1955 |location=Allahabad |pages=152–3 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/933/1/23644_1951_RAE.pdf |access-date=3 November 2021}} The area of the village was given as 674 acres. 9 residents were literate, all male. The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Rae Bareli South and the thana of Kotwali.
The 1961 census recorded Saidanpur as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 734 people (376 male and 358 female), in 161 households and 156 physical houses.{{cite book |title=Census 1961: District Census Handbook, Uttar Pradesh (39 - Raebareli District) |date=1965 |location=Lucknow |pages=xlviii-xlix of section "Rae Bareli Tahsil" |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1047/1/22852_1961_RAE.pdf |access-date=10 August 2021}} The area of the village was given as 674 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Saidanpur as having a population of 1,118 people, in 213 households, and having an area of 100.37 hectares.{{cite book |title=Census 1981 Uttar Pradesh: District Census Handbook Part XIII-A: Village & Town Directory, District Rae Bareli |date=1982 |pages=96–7 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1298/1/50861_1981_RAE.pdf |access-date=10 August 2021}} The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.
The 1991 census recorded Saidanpur as having a total population of 1,397 people (718 male and 679 female), in 250 households and 250 physical houses.{{cite book |title=Census 1991 Series-25 Uttar Pradesh Part-XII B Village & Townwise Primary Census Abstract District Census Handbook District Raebareli |date=1992 |pages=xxiv-xxviii, 132–3 |url=http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/1443/1/36846_1991_RAE.pdf |access-date=21 October 2021}} The area of the village was listed as 272 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 315, or 22.5% of the total; this group was 51% male (162) and 49% female (153). Members of scheduled castes numbered 474, or 34% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded. The literacy rate of the village was 27% (303 men and 78 women). 400 people were classified as main workers (336 men and 64 women), while 6 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 991 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 278 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 89 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; 3 household industry workers; 13 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 4 construction workers; 3 employed in trade and commerce; 2 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 8 in other services.