Sultanpur district

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Sultanpur district
District of Uttar Pradesh
Location of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh
Location of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh
Country India
StateUttar Pradesh
DivisionFaizabad (officially Ayodhya)
HeadquartersSultanpur
TehsilsLambhua, Kadipur, Sultanpur, Jaisinghpur, Baldirai
Government
 • Lok Sabha constituenciesSultanpur
 • Vidhan Sabha constituencies5
Area
 • Total2,672.89 km2 (1,032.01 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total3,797,117
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Websitehttp://sultanpur.nic.in/

Sultanpur district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India. This district is a part of Faizabad division in Uttar Pradesh state. The administrative headquarters of the district is Sultanpur. The total area of Sultanpur district is 2672.89 Sq. km.[1] Recently, its name has been in news to restore it to its historical name, Kushbhawanpur - the land where Kush (Lord Ram's son) lived, by MLA Deomani Dwivedi.

Administration[]

Sultanpur has now five tehsils of Sultanpur Sadar, Kadipur, Lambhua, Baldirai and Jaisinghpur.[2] The Amethi, Musafirkhana, and Gauriganj tehsils are now in Amethi district. District has one municipality, five town areas and twenty two development blocks. Besides Sultanpur city, important towns are Amethi, Chanda, Dostpur, Jagdishpur, Kadipur, Koeripur, Lambhua, Mushafirkhana and . Sultanpur is divided into seventeen police stations for the maintenance of law and order.[2][3]

Demographics[]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
19011,097,006—    
19111,061,205−0.33%
19211,016,338−0.43%
19311,064,516+0.46%
19411,115,311+0.47%
19511,298,249+1.53%
19611,418,750+0.89%
19711,649,258+1.52%
19812,050,140+2.20%
19912,571,706+2.29%
20013,214,832+2.26%
20113,797,117+1.68%
source:[4]

Languages[]

Sultanpur district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[5]

  Awadhi (23.40%)
  Hindi (73.26%)
  Urdu (3.08%)
  Others (0.26%)

Hindi is the official language of the district with Urdu as additional official language.[6] Languages spoken by the denizens of the district include Awadhi, a dialect in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.[7] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 73.26% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 23.30% Awadhi and 3.08% Urdu as their first language.[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.[citation needed]

Sultanpur district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[5]
Mother tongue code Mother tongue Old boundaries "New boundaries"
People Percentage People Percentage
002007 Bengali 597 0.02% 305 0.01%
006030 Awadhi 888,371 23.40% 570,720 25.38%
006102 Bhojpuri 2,889 0.08% 1,707 0.08%
006142 Chhattisgarhi 2,700 0.07% 1,210 0.05%
006240 Hindi 2,781,822 73.26% 1,574,982 70.03%
015043 Odia 628 0.02% 334 0.01%
016038 Punjabi 887 0.02% 757 0.03%
017002 Sanskrit 323 0.01% 322 0.01%
022015 Urdu 116,980 3.08% 97,919 4.35%
028001 Arabic/Arbi 391 0.01% 9 0.00%
– Others 1,529 0.04% 771 0.03%

Religion[]

Religions in Sultanpur district
Religion Percent
Hindus
 
 82.16%
Muslims
 
 17.13%
Others
 
 0.71%

Colleges[]

Notable people[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "District Sultanpur, Government of Uttar Pradesh | The Land of Maharaja Kush | India". Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Number of blocks situated in Sultanpur". Administration of Sultanpur. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Police Thanas". Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  4. ^ Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c C-16 Population By Mother Tongue – Uttar Pradesh (Report). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ 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.

Coordinates: 26°15′N 82°00′E / 26.250°N 82.000°E / 26.250; 82.000

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