Raghipur was the only village in the pargana of Amethi not held by the Raja of Amethi under an 1804 agreement.[4]
The 1951 census recorded Raghipur as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 693 people (341 male and 352 female), in 161 households and 142 physical houses.[5] The area of the village was given as 154 acres.[5] 70 residents were literate, all male.[5] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Amethi and the thana of Gauriganj.[5] The village had a district board-run primary school with 80 students in attendance as of 1 January 1951.
The 1961 census recorded Raghipur as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 789 people (370 male and 419 female), in 189 households and 178 physical houses.[6] The area of the village was given as 154 acres and it had a post office at that point.[6]
The 1981 census recorded Raghipur as having a population of 895 people, in 190 households, and having an area of 61.92 hectares.[7] The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.[7]
The 1991 census recorded Raghipur as having a total population of 984 people (504 male and 480 female), in 196 households and 196 physical houses.[3] The area of the village was listed as 62.00 hectares.[3] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 170, or 17% of the total; this group was 59% male (100) and 41% female (70).[3] Members of scheduled castes numbered 259, or 26% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.[3] The literacy rate of the village was 38% (224 men and 85 women, counting only people age 7 and up).[3] 348 people were classified as main workers (238 men and 110 women), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 636 residents were non-workers.[3] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 120 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 186 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 8 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 7 household industry workers; 3 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0 construction workers; 9 employed in trade and commerce; 2 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 21 in other services.[3]
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