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Salindh is an old village bordering the small town of Safipur in Unnao district (sandwiched betwewn Lucknow and Kanpur), of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Map of Saleend, Uttar Pradesh 209871
Infrastructure
It has a Tehsil, a hospital, a bus station, a police station, a post office, MG Intermediate College, Gupta Girls College, and a railway station connecting Hardoi with Kanpur. Safipur Bus Station area connects Kanpur. Hardoi is the mall or main place to entertain.
Salindh is an assorted, shapeless cluster of mud and straw thatch huts and few brick houses with hardly any sanitation, roads, drainage or lighting arrangements. Houses belonging to few farmers and service men have plastered with cement and reinforced brick-work roofs, proper doors and windows.
Location
It is 17 km from Unnao district and 1 km from Safipur, village Salindh has
Economy
The village has a flour grinding mill (chakki) and 3 shops. The main occupation is agriculture and mango groves.
Festivals
Annual ‘gagar’(saint Makhdoom saheb anniversary) festivity is the only activity for youths. Unnao is land of Chandra Shekhar Azad, Nirala, Lawyer Mohammad Asghar, Uma Shankar Dikshit.
Two mosques, one Hanuman temple and a cemetery ‘Raju Dada’ are there. Poverty and pressure on land impelled few people towards the mid of 20th century to migrate to Lucknow, Kanpur, Unnao and even Bombay, and even foreign countries.
Demographics
Land is more important than caste in the village. Chamars, Ahirs, Nai, Telis, Kurmis, Muslims are found in the villages. No Brahmin or Thakur live there. One Bania family, the Shankars, is unique.