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Pawayan
Pawayan or Powayanis a town and a subdivisional headquarters in Shahjahanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 27 km from Shahjahanpur. It is located in the fertile agricultural belt of Northern India and is 300 km from Delhi and 200 km from Lucknow.
It was established in the 18th century, originally from Nahil, in order to protect the royal family in historic times when Powayan was a purvaiyan chowki.(east - and the word became Powayan or Powayan in later times)