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This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see
Firozpur .
District in Punjab, India
Firozpur district , also known as Ferozepur district , is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab , India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2,190 km 2 mi ).
Firozpur (Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.
Demographics [ edit ]
According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074.[1] 640 ). The district has a population density of 380 inhabitants per square kilometre (980/sq mi ). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)[2]
After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.[3]
The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur district through decades.
Sex ratio of Firozpur district[4]
Census year
Ratio
2011
893
2001
885
1991
895
1981
884
1971
876
1961
840
1951
835
1941
810
1931
814
1921
802
1911
778
1901
826
The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Firozpur district.
Child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in Firozpur district[5]
Year
Urban
Rural
2011
838
845
2001
813
825
Religion [ edit ]
Religious groups in Firozpur District (British Punjab province era)
Religious 1901[7]
1911[8] [9]
1921[10]
1931[11]
1941[12]
Pop. %
Pop.
%
Pop.
%
Pop.
%
Pop.
%
Islam 447,615
418,553
482,540
515,430
641,448
Hinduism [b] 279,099
273,832
306,350
244,688
287,733
Sikhism 228,355
262,511
302,761
388,108
479,486
Christianity 1,908
3,342
5,365
7,070
12,607
Jainism 1,090
1,401
1,211
1,411
1,674
Zoroastrianism 4 18 15 24 28
Buddhism 0
0
6 1 1
Judaism 0
0
0
0
13
Others
1 0
0
0
86
Total population
958,072
959,657
1,098,248
1,156,732
1,423,076
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
Language [ edit ]
Languages of Firozpur district (2011)[13] [c]
Others (1.32%)
At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.[13]
Politics [ edit ]
Administration [ edit ]
The district is administratively into the following tehsils:[1]
List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur
Blocks of district Firozpur
Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur
Notable people [ edit ]
Mohinder Singh Randhawa , a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
Harvinder Sahota , an Indian American cardiologist , researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
Kamaljeet Sandhu , an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
Man Mohan Sondhi , researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories , famous for his research on echo cancellation .
Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa , first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri , highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib .
Sada Kaur , Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
Gerry Whent , founder and first chief executive of Vodafone .
Mahabali Shera , Indian professional wrestler .
Bano Qudsia , a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
Verma Malik , an active freedom fighter during the British Raj , a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
Frederick Currie (cricketer) , an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
^ After creation of Fazilka district carved out of Firozpur, new Firozpur district consists of Zira and Firozpur tehsils.
^ 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis
^ Similar process to religion above
References [ edit ]
^ "Demography | District Ferozepur, Government of Punjab | India" . Retrieved 19 October 2022 .
^ "District-wise Decadal Sex ratio in Punjab" . Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India . 21 January 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023 .
^ "Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India" . 21 January 2022.
^ a b "Table C-01 Population by Religious Community: Punjab" . censusindia.gov.in . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India .
^ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province" . 1901. p. 34. JSTOR saoa.crl.25363739 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables" . 1911. p. 27. JSTOR saoa.crl.25393788 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ Kaul, Harikishan (1911). "Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II" . p. 27 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables" . 1921. p. 29. JSTOR saoa.crl.25430165 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ "Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables" . 1931. p. 277. JSTOR saoa.crl.25793242 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ India Census Commissioner (1941). "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab" . p. 42. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215541 . Retrieved 23 March 2024 .
^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Punjab" . censusindia.gov.in . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India .
External links [ edit ]
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