Firozpur district

Firozpur district

Firojpur district
Firozpur district Firojpur district
District
	Memorial gurudwara for Battle of Saragarhi in Firozpur
	Location in Punjab
	Coordinates: 30°56′24″N 74°37′12″E / 30.94000°N 74.62000°E
Country	India
State	Punjab
Founded by	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Named for	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Headquarters	Firozpur
Area
• Total	2,406.84 km2 (929.29 sq mi)
• Rank	230th
Population (2011)
• Total	1,001,931
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	PB 05
Literacy	69.80%
No. of villages	639
Lok Sabha constituency	1
Vidhan Sabha constituency	4
Website	ferozepur.nic.in

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 km² (850 sq 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

According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074.^[1] This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 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]

Gender

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

Religion in New Firozpur district (2011)^[6]^[a]
Religion			Percent
Sikhism			68.59%
Hinduism			28.83%
Christianity			1.83%
Other or not stated			0.75%

Religious groups in Firozpur District (British Punjab province era)
Religious group	1901^[7]		1911^[8]^[9]		1921^[10]		1931^[11]		1941^[12]
Religious group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Islam	447,615	46.72%	418,553	43.61%	482,540	43.94%	515,430	44.56%	641,448	45.07%
Hinduism ^[b]	279,099	29.13%	273,832	28.53%	306,350	27.89%	244,688	21.15%	287,733	20.22%
Sikhism	228,355	23.83%	262,511	27.35%	302,761	27.57%	388,108	33.55%	479,486	33.69%
Christianity	1,908	0.2%	3,342	0.35%	5,365	0.49%	7,070	0.61%	12,607	0.89%
Jainism	1,090	0.11%	1,401	0.15%	1,211	0.11%	1,411	0.12%	1,674	0.12%
Zoroastrianism	4	0%	18	0%	15	0%	24	0%	28	0%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	6	0%	1	0%	1	0%
Judaism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	13	0%
Others	1	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	86	0.01%
Total population	958,072	100%	959,657	100%	1,098,248	100%	1,156,732	100%	1,423,076	100%
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.

Religion in Undivided Firozpur District
Religious group	2011^[6]
Religious group	Pop.	%
Sikhism	1,090,815	53.76%
Hinduism	906,408	44.67%
Christianity	19,358	0.95%
Islam	6,844	0.34%
Jainism	1,143	0.06%
Buddhism	454	0.02%
Others	4,052	0.2%
Total Population	2,029,074	100%

Language

Languages of Firozpur district (2011)^[13]^[c]

Punjabi (93.01%)

Rajasthani (5.67%)

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

No.	Constituency	Name of MLA		Bench
75	Zira	Naresh Kataria	Aam Aadmi Party	Government
76	Firozpur City	Ranveer Singh Bhullar	Aam Aadmi Party	Government
77	Firozpur Rural (SC)	Rajnish Dahiya	Aam Aadmi Party	Government
78	Guru Har Sahai	Fauja Singh Srari	Aam Aadmi Party	Government

Administration

The district is administratively into the following tehsils:^[1]

List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur

Blocks of district Firozpur

Firozpur
Ghall Khurd
Guru Har Sahai
Makhu
Mamdot
Zira

Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur

Firozpur
Firozpur Rural
Guru Har Sahai
Zira

Notable people

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.

Notes

^ 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

^ ^a ^b Population - Firozpur Online
^ "District Census Hand Book – Firozpur" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
^ "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

"District Ferozepur". Retrieved 18 October 2007.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferozepur" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 281–282.