Sultanpur district

Sultanpur district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district is a part of the Faizabad Division (officially Ayodhya division). The administrative headquarters of the district is Sultanpur.

This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Sultanpur district
District of Uttar Pradesh
Location of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh
CountryIndia
StateUttar Pradesh
DivisionFaizabad
HeadquartersSultanpur, Uttar Pradesh
TehsilsLambhua, Kadipur, Sultanpur, Jaisinghpur, Baldirai (Newly Formed)
Government
 • Lok Sabha constituenciesSultanpur
 • Vidhan Sabha constituencies5
Area
 • Total2,673 km2 (1,032 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total3,797,117
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Websitehttp://sultanpur.nic.in/

Administration

Sultanpur has now five tehsils of Sultanpur Sadar, Kadipur, Lambhua, Baldirai and Jaisinghpur.[1] 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 Shukul Bazar. Sultanpur is divided into seventeen police stations for the maintenance of law and order.[1][2]

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:[3]

Languages

Sultanpur district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[4]

  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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[4]

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.

Sultanpur district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[4]
Mother tongue code Mother tongue Old boundaries "New boundaries"
People Percentage People Percentage
002007Bengali 597 0.02% 305 0.01%
006030Awadhi 888,371 23.40% 570,720 25.38%
006102Bhojpuri 2,889 0.08% 1,707 0.08%
006142Chhattisgarhi 2,700 0.07% 1,210 0.05%
006240Hindi 2,781,822 73.26% 1,574,982 70.03%
015043Odia 628 0.02% 334 0.01%
016038Punjabi 887 0.02% 757 0.03%
017002Sanskrit 323 0.01% 322 0.01%
022015Urdu 116,980 3.08% 97,919 4.35%
028001Arabic/Arbi 391 0.01% 9 0.00%
– Others 1,529 0.04% 771 0.03%
Total 3,797,117 100.00% 2,249,036 100.00%

Colleges

Notable people
  • Ajmal Sultanpuri, Urdu poet native of Harakhpur village, Mazrooh Sultanpuri, Urdu Poet,Lyricist Bollywood,native Place Ganjehdi village,

See also

References
  1. "Number of blocks situated in Sultanpur". Administration of Sultanpur. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. "Police Thanas". Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  3. Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
  4. C-16 Population By Mother Tongue – Uttar Pradesh (Report). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  5. "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.
  6. 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.

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