Nasirabad is a Nagar panchayat (a municipality, divided into 15 wards) and a Gram Sabha (village council) in Chhatoh Block, Raebareli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Located southeast of Jais on the road to Salon, Nasirabad is an old town partly built on an elevated area that covers the ruins of an ancient fort.
[2] The 1951 census recorded Nasirabad as comprising 20 hamlets, with a total population of 4,665 people (2,340 male and 2,325 female), in 997 households and 962 physical houses.
[5] The 1961 census recorded Nasirabad as comprising 23 hamlets, with a total population of 5,107 people (2,551 male and 2,556 female), in 1,119 households and 1,096 physical houses.
[6] Nasirabad was at that time the headquarters of a community development block comprising 79 villages and 507 hamlets, with a total population of 73,810 people.
[3] The 1991 census recorded Nasirabad as having a total population of 8,605 people (4,520 male and 4,085 female), in 1,513 households and 1,508 physical houses.
[4] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 989 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 907 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 10 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.
Matami Juloos (mourning processions for the death of Imam Hussain) take place from the 1st to the 10th day of the month, with recitation of Nauhas (elegies) and self-flagellation with chains.
Naqvi Sadats (descendants of Muhammad) migrated from Subzwar (Iran) and settled in Jais around 410 Hijri (around 1027 AD).
After some time the adjacent village of Patakpur was also inhabited by Momineens and renamed Nasirabad after Syed Naseerudin.
The 1st Mujtahid from India, Ayatullah il Uzma Sayyid Dildar Ali Naqvi Naseerabadi 'Gufraanmaab' was from here and later his family came to be called "Khandan e Ijtihad" due to the heavy presence of high-ranking scholars.