Barabanki (District)

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Barabanki District
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Administrative headquarters : Barabanki
Area : 4402 km²
Residents : 3,260,699 (2011)
Population density : 741 inhabitants / km²
Website : www.barabanki.nic.in/

Barabanki is a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh .

The area is 4402 km². The administrative seat is the city of Barabanki .

history

The district was known as Jasnaul before the Muslim conquest, by Jas, a Raja of the Bharpasi tribe who is believed to have founded it around AD 1000. With the change of ruler there was a name change. The Muslim owners divided the land into twelve parts, over which the respective owners quarreled so incessantly that they were called Barah Banke, or twelve contentious men. Banka in Awadhi , which means tyrant or brave. Others derive the name from ban, which means wood or jungle, and interpret barabanki as the twelve parts of the jungle.

In 1856 it came under British rule with the rest of Avadh . During the Sepoy uprising of 1857, the population joined the mutineers, but did not offer any serious resistance after the capture of Lucknow .

population

The population is 3,260,699 (2011). The population growth rate from 2001 to 2011 was 21.96%. Barabanki has a gender ratio of 910 women per 1000 men. It has a literacy rate of 61.75% in 2011, which is well below the national average. Just under 77% of the population are Hindus and around 23% are Muslims .

The urbanization rate of the district is approximately 10.2%. The largest urban agglomeration was Barabanki with 147,550 inhabitants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gazetteer of the province of Oudh , BARA BANKI DISTRICT ARTICLE # 226-263
  2. ↑ 2011 census (PDF; 398 kB)
  3. ^ Indian Districts by Population, Sex Ratio, Literacy 2011 Census. Retrieved April 16, 2019 .