Sultanpur district
Sultanpur district | ||
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Vidhan Sabha constituencies 5 | | |
Area | ||
• Total | 2,672.89 km2 (1,032.01 sq mi) | |
Population (2011)[1] | ||
• Total | 2,249,036 | |
• Density | 840/km2 (2,200/sq mi) | |
• Urban | 146,892 | |
Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) | |
Vehicle registration | UP-44 | |
Website | sultanpur |
Sultanpur district is a
As of 2011, Sultanpur district has a population of 2,249,036 people.[1]
History
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At the time of the
Two mahals in the Lucknow sarkar would later form part of Sultanpur district: Amethi and Isauli.[3] Amethi was later transferred into the sarkar of Manikpur.[3] In Akbar's time, Manikpur also had two mahals in the present district: Jais, which was broken up beginning sometime before 1775, and Kathot, which as mentioned above covered the southern parts of pargana Miranpur.[3] Finally, there were two more mahals in the sarkar of Jaunpur: Chanda and Aldemau.[3]
Sultanpur district remained split between the two subahs of Awadh and Allahabad until the late 1700s, when the latter was finally broken up.
From 1793 to 1856, 27 nizams held office in Sultanpur, although several of them held office twice or were only in office for a very short time.[3] Among the more significant nizams were Sital Parshad (in office 1794–1800), Mir Ghulam Hussain (1812–14 and 1818–23), Raja Darshan Singh (1828–34 and 1837–38) and his son Raja Man Singh (1845–47), and Agha Ali Khan (the final nazim, in office from 1850 to 1856).[3] The nizams themselves were fairly powerless to deal with the district's powerful landowners, whose power had become so entrenched that they could get away with merely paying the ordinary revenue demands and otherwise being left alone to do as they pleased.[3]
After the British annexation of Awadh in 1856, Sultanpur remained the seat of a district, although the administrative boundaries in the region were redrawn — Aldemau, for example, now formed part of
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1901 | 1,097,006 | — |
1911 | 1,061,205 | −0.33% |
1921 | 1,016,338 | −0.43% |
1931 | 1,064,516 | +0.46% |
1941 | 1,115,311 | +0.47% |
1951 | 1,298,249 | +1.53% |
1961 | 1,418,750 | +0.89% |
1971 | 1,649,258 | +1.52% |
1981 | 2,050,140 | +2.20% |
1991 | 2,571,706 | +2.29% |
2001 | 3,214,832 | +2.26% |
2011 | 3,797,117 | +1.68% |
source:[4] |
Sultanpur district (after bifurcation) had a population of 2,249,036. 6.53% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes made up 481,735 (21.42%) of the population.[5]
The 2011 Indian census used the old district boundaries, where Sultanpur district consisted of Amethi, Gauriganj, Jaisinghpur, Kadipur, Lambhua, Musafirkhana, and Sultanpur sub-districts (tehsils). When Amethi district was created, Amethi, Gauriganj, and Musafirkhana sub-districts were moved to Amethi district. The effect of this change is shown in the table below as "new boundaries" - it does not take account of Baldirai sub-district, which did not exist at the time of the 2011 census.[6]
Languages
At the time of the
Religion
Sultanpur has a majority-Hindu population. Muslims are more concentrated in urban areas.[10]
Administration
After its bifurcation in 2010, the Sultanpur district has five
The subdivisions of Sultanpur district are:
- Baldirai tehsil
- Baldirai block
- Dhanpatganj block
- Sultanpur Sadar tehsil
- Jaisinghpurtehsil
- Lambhua tehsil
- Lambhua block
- Pratappur Kamaicha block
- Kadipur tehsil
- Dostpur block (part)
- Kadipur block
- Akhand Nagar block
- Karaundi Kala block
Municipalitites
The district has municipalities for one city and four towns.[14]
1. Nagar Palika Parishad, Sultanpur (Sultanpur city)
2. Nagar Panchayat, Lambhua
3. Nagar Panchayat, Dostpur
4. Nagar Panchayat, Kadipur
5. Nagar Panchayat, Koiripur
Villages
There are total 1727 villages in the 5 tehsils of Sultanpur district.[15]
Education
Colleges
- Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology
- Government Polytechnic Kenaura Sultanpur[17]
Notable people
- Prem Adib, actor from Sultanpur city
- Sripati Mishra, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- IPLsince 2022
- Ajmal Sultanpuri, Urdu poet native of Harakhpur village
- Hindi language film industry
- Sanjay Singh, politician and former Rajya Sabha member
- D. P. Tripathi, politician and former general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party, from Sultanpur city
See also
References
- ^ a b "District Sultanpur Digital India". sultanpur.nic.in. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ "District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | The Land of Maharaja Kush | India". Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Nevill, H.R. (1903). Sultanpur: A Gazetteer, Being Volume XLVI Of The District Gazetteers Of The United Provinces Of Agra And Oudh. Allahabad: Government Press. pp. 76, 107–10, 134–8. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
- ^ "District Census Handbook: Sultanpur" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ a b "District Amethi - History". amethi.nic.in. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Uttar Pradesh". www.censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ "52nd REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN INDIA" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Awadhi: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Table C-01 Population by Religion: Uttar Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ "Number of blocks situated in Sultanpur". Administration of Sultanpur. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ "Subdivision & Blocks | District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | India". Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Police Thanas | District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | India". Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Municipalities | District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | India". Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | The Land of Maharaja Kush | India". Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh District Census Handbook - Sultanpur, Part A (Village and Town Directory)" (PDF). Census 2011 India. pp. 77–93. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Government Polytechnic Kenaura Sultanpur". Board Of Technical Education , Uttar Pradesh. Retrieved 3 April 2022.