 It is one of the ancient villages of India having a four-hundred-year-old Thakur Wadi dedicated to Rama and Shiva.A giant 32 foot Hanumanta statue also exists in Thakur Wadiwhich, built by saint Hanuman Das.There are three Gupta period statues of Vishnu in the Makanpur village, privately owned by Ram Ratan Prasad Singh Ratnakar, an eminent scholar and writer.