Kurwar was historically the seat of the Raja of Kurwar, who was head of the
Bachgoti Rajput clan and who lived in a palace here. The palace was built by the Court of Wards, and Raja Partab Bahadur Singh also built a large
zanana house which was completed in 1902. The area of the village was given as 1,722
acres. The area of the village was given as 1,722 acres and it had a medical practitioner, maternity and child welfare centre, and government-run
dispensary with 2 male and 2 female beds. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice. The area of the village was listed as 996.89 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 1,426, or 19% of the total; this group was 53% male (757) and 47% female (669). Members of
scheduled castes numbered 758, or 10% of the village's total population, while no members of
scheduled tribes were recorded. The
literacy rate of the village was 52% (2,152 men and 984 women, counting only people age 7 and up). 1,970 people were classified as main workers (1,736 men and 234 women), while 10 people were classified as marginal workers (all women); the remaining 5,448 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 635 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 530 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 188 household industry workers; 70 workers employed in other
manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 4
construction workers; 245 employed in trade and commerce; 23 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 285 in other services. == Villages ==