Hamirpur (District, Uttar Pradesh)

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Hamirpur District
( Hindi हमीरपुर जिला )
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Division : Chitrakoot
Administrative headquarters : Hamirpur
Area : 4021 km²
Residents : 1,104,285 (2011)
Website : Hamirpur District

The Hamirpur district ( Hindi हमीरपुर जिला ) is a predominantly rural district in the former historical region of Bundelkhand in the south of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The administrative center is the city of Hamirpur , which has around 40,000 inhabitants .

geography

The Hamirpur district is located south of the Ganges plain . The average height is between 80 and 250  m . The average annual rainfall, of which about 90% falls during the summer monsoon season , is about 915 mm. The Dhasan River borders the district in the west, the Betwa and Yamuna rivers in the north and the Ken in sections in the east.

Neighboring districts are the districts of Jhansi in the west and Jalaun in the north and northwest, Kanpur Dehat and Kanpur Nagar in the north, Fatehpur in the northeast, Banda in the east and southeast and Mahoba in the south.

Administrative division

Hamirpur District is divided into four administrative districts ( tehsils or subdivisions ): Hamirpur, Maudaha, Rath and Sahila. It consists of the medium- sized towns Rath (approx. 75,000), Maudaha (approx. 45,000), Sumerpur (approx. 45,000) and Hamirpur (approx. 40,000), the small towns of Kurara (approx. 15,000), Sarila (approx. 12,000) and Gohand (approx. 9,000) and approx. 500 smaller and larger villages.

population

Official population statistics have only been kept and published since 1991.

year 1991 2001 2011
Residents 841,400 993.792 1,104,285

Hindus dominate the rural villages (around 90%); A significantly higher number of Muslims (around 20%) live in the cities . In the decade between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by around 11% to around 1.1 million, with the male population exceeding that of the female population by around 15%. A good 80% of the population lives in rural villages; an average of around 35% of people (and more in rural regions) are illiterate. Mostly Hindi and Bundeli are spoken .

economy

Most of the area of ​​the Hamirpur district is still largely agricultural (wheat, lentils, millet, etc.). In the entire district there are eight train stations of rather minor importance on the Kanpur - Banda , Prayagraj route .

history

Almost nothing is known about the early history of the area around Hamirpur - it probably belonged to the Kosala Empire, which was soon replaced by the Magadha Empire, which emerged in the 3rd century. v. The Maurya Empire developed. In the 4th / 5th In the 17th century AD, the region became part of the Gupta Empire , which was later replaced by the kings of the Kalachuri , Pratihara and Chandella dynasties. In the High Middle Ages (from around 1200) the rulers of Delhi nominally assumed suzerainty and from 1526 the area was under the control of the Mughal Empire . During its decline after the death of Aurangzeb (1707), the Marathas tried to expand their influence on the Bundelkhand region ; however, they had to cede the area to the British in the Treaty of Bassein (1802) . After India's independence (1947), the state of Uttar Pradesh was established. In 1995, the Mahoba district was downsized by assignments to the newly created neighboring district.

Attractions

There are no temples or other sites of major historical or tourist importance in the entire Hamirpur district.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamirpur district - data + facts
  2. ↑ District Hamirpur - climate tables
  3. ↑ Hamirpur District - Map
  4. ↑ Hamirpur District - Administrative Districts and Villages
  5. ↑ Hamirpur District - Census 1991 to 2011
  6. ↑ Hamirpur District - Census 2011
  7. ↑ Hamirpur District - Railway Stations
  8. ↑ Hamirpur District - Attractions