Kannauj (District)

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Kannauj District
( Hindi कन्नौज जिला )
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Division : Kanpur
Administrative headquarters : Kannauj
Area : 2093 km²
Residents : 1,656,616 (2011)
Website : Kannauj District

The district of Kannauj ( Hindi कन्नौज जिला ) is a district in the north of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The administrative center is the city of Kannauj , which has around 100,000 inhabitants .

geography

The Kannauj district lies in the Ganges plain . The average height is between 100 and 150  m . The average annual rainfall is around 870 mm, of which about 90% falls during the summer monsoon season . The district borders the Ganges in the northeast .

Neighboring districts are Auraiya and Etawah in the southwest, Mainpuri in the west, Farrukhabad in the north, Hardoi in the northeast and Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Dehat in the southeast.

Administrative division

The district of Kannauj is divided into three administrative districts ( tehsils or subdivisions ): Chhibramau, Kannauj and Tirwa. It consists of the city of Kannauj (approx. 100,000), the two medium- sized towns Chhibramau (approx. 70,000) and Gursahaiganj (approx. 55,000), several small towns and approx. 650 smaller and larger villages.

population

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

year 1991 2001 2011
Residents 1,158,000 1,388,923 1,656,616

Hindus dominate rural villages (about 83%); A significantly higher number of Muslims (around 35%) live in the cities . In the decade between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by around 22% to around 1.66 million, with the male population exceeding that of the female population by around 15%. Approx. 83% of the population lives in rural villages; an average of around 30% of people (even more in rural regions) are illiterate. Mostly Hindi is spoken .

economy

Most of the area of ​​the Kannauj district is still largely agricultural; In the vicinity of the city of Kannauj, factories (manufacture of perfumes and beedis ) as well as smaller industrial companies have settled. In the area of ​​the district of Kannauj there are eight train stations on the Farrukhabad - Kanpur route, of which the one in Kannauj is by far the most used.

history

The fertile area around Kannauj (old name Kanyakubja ) was an economically and politically important region in the Kosala empire, which was soon replaced by the Magadha empire, from which in the 3rd century BC. The Maurya Empire developed. In the 4th / 5th Century AD the region came to the Gupta empire , which was usurped in the early 7th century by its general Harsha ; he chose Kannauj to be the capital of his vast territory. The region was later taken over by the kings of the Pratihara and Chandella dynasties. In 1019 Mahmud of Ghazni conquered and devastated large parts of northern India; from 1206 the Sultanate of Delhi took over the sovereignty and from 1526 the area was under the control of the Mughal Empire . During its decline after the death of Aurangzeb (1707), Kannauj fell to the status of a provincial town, which came under British rule in 1856 . After India's independence (1947), the state of Uttar Pradesh was established. In 1997, the district of Kannauj was re-created by assignments of the neighboring districts.

Attractions

Despite or perhaps because of the long and varied history of Kannauj and its surrounding area, no buildings from ancient or medieval times have survived; archaeologically significant finds are exhibited in the city's Archaeological Museum .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kannauj (District)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ District Kannauj - climate tables
  2. ↑ Kannauj - map
  3. ↑ Kannauj District - Administrative Districts and Villages
  4. ↑ Kannauj District - Census 1991 to 2011
  5. ↑ Kannauj District - Census 2011
  6. ↑ Kannauj District - Perfume Manufacture
  7. ↑ Kannauj District - Railway Stations
  8. ↑ Kannauj District - History
  9. ^ Kannauj District - Archaeological Museum