Baldeo

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Baldeo
city
Baldeo Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 27°25′N 77°49′E / 27.42°N 77.82°E / 27.42; 77.82Coordinates: 27°25′N 77°49′E / 27.42°N 77.82°E / 27.42; 77.82
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Mathura
Elevation	176 m (577 ft)
Population (2001)
• Total	9,695
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Baldeo is a town and a nagar panchayat in Mathura district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

History

Baldeo town of Mathura district, which is about a 25 km from Mathura. Mathura to reach here by bus, taxi arrangements etc. According to Hindu mythology, Baldeo is the place where Lord Krishna's elder brother named 'Baldeo' use to rule. It is also known as 'Dauji' in the local areas around mathura as the other name of Lord Baldeo was 'Dau Ji maharaj'. Additionally, there is a famous temple in Baldeo of 'Dau Ji Maharaj', where there is a stone statue of him with his wife situated.^{[citation needed]}

Geography

Baldeo is located at 27°25′N 77°49′E / 27.42°N 77.82°E / 27.42; 77.82.^[1] It has an average elevation of 176 metres (577 feet). It is about 22 km from Mathura.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,^[2] Baldeo had a population of 9695. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Baldeo has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 64% of the males and 36% of females literate. 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Baldauji temple

In this town there is a famous temple of Baldauji (Baldeo, the elder brother of Hindu god Krishna). People from far places use to visit the temple for puja. An annual mela (festival) is held in November-December.

molstly local person are called Dauji because baldeo ji is elder brother of shri krishan many name of Shri baldeo ji

Brij ko Raja Dau Dayal Hal Musal Dhari

Dauji (Baldeo) is very famous & popular place in all over India. Very crowd on the time of Holi, Diwali, Guru Purnima here is avery big kund(talab) hai there people are Bathing and understand holy of life

References

↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Baldeo
↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

v t e Cities and towns in Mathura district

Mathura	Aurangabad Bangar Bad Bajna Baldeo Barsana Chaumuhan Chhata Farah Gokul Govardhan Kosi Kalan Mahaban Mathura Nandgaon Radha Kund Raya Saunkh Vrindavan

Other districts	Agra Aligarh Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Amroha Auraiya Azamgarh Badaun Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bhimnagar Bijnor Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Deoria Etah Etawah Faizabad Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hamirpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Kannauj Kanpur Nagar Kanshi Ram Nagar Kaushambi Kushinagar Lakhimpur Kheri Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Panchsheel Nagar Pilibhit Prabuddhanagar Pratapgarh Raebareli Ramabai Nagar Rampur Saharanpur Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Ravidas Nagar Shahjahanpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sitapur Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi

baldeo block consists of 50 gram panchayat, 106 total number of villages.

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