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Kadipur
Kadipur is a town, tehsil and a nagar panchayat in Sultanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located a short distance from the bank of the Gomti River, at a crossroads between two roads heading from Sultanpur to Surapur and from Pratapgarh to Dostpur and then on to Akbarpur. On the north side of town is a stream with a steep ravine that drains the surrounding area. The road to Sultanpur crosses over this stream on a bridge. The lands surrounding Kadipur are average quality for agricultural purposes. As of 2011, Kadipur has a population of 8,010 people, in 1,216 households. Kadipur tehsil has 4 blocks: Akhand Nagar, Dostpur, Kadipur and Karaundi Kala. Geography Kadipur is located at . It has an average elevation of 90 metres (295 feet). It is situated on the bank of Gomti River. History Kadipur was historically a relatively minor village without any particular importance until it was made the headquarters of a tehsil. It was chosen mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sultanpur District
Sultanpur district is a district in the Awadh region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This district is a part of Faizabad division (officially ''Ayodhya division'') in Uttar Pradesh. The administrative headquarters of the district is Sultanpur city. The total area of Sultanpur district is 2672.89 Sq. km. As of 2011, Sultanpur district has a population of 2,249,036 people. History At the time of the Ain-i-Akbari, the area now covered by Sultanpur district was divided between the sarkars of Awadh, Lucknow, and Jaunpur, all in the subah of Awadh, as well as the sarkar of Manikpur in the subah of Allahabad. Sultanpur itself was one of the ''mahal''s, or parganas, that made up the sarkar of Awadh; it corresponded to the later pargana of Miranpur, minus its southern portion which in Akbar's day formed part of the Kathot mahal in Manikpur. It may have also included some of the later pargana of Baraunsa, which was also called Sultanpur-Baraunsa. The mahal of Sultanpu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhand Nagar
Akhand Nagar is a community development block in Kadipur tehsil of Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It consists of 106 inhabited villages with a total population of 168,686 people in 25,112 households. Akhand Nagar situated in 22 km east of Kadipur and is connected with Kadipur, Dostpur, Bilwai, Mohadi Sarai and Baramadpur. It has a police station on Kadipur Road and a petrol pump at Bilwai Road. The block office and electric power house are situated at Kadipur Road. There are two government banks – Bank of Baroda and State bank of India. One primary school for the primary education and a junior school up to 8th class. Demographics As of 2011, Akhand Nagar CD block has a population of 168,686 people, in 25,112 households. This population includes 84,863 males and 83,823 females. The corresponding sex ratio of 988 females to every 1000 males is slightly higher than the district rural average of 987. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 24,441 as of 2011, or ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dostpur
Dostpur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sultanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The town borders Sultanpur and Ambedkarnagar. Purvanchal Expressway passes near the town. Geography Dostpur town area have very critical position and daily traffic jam in road Demographics As of 2011 Indian Census, Dostpur had a total population of 14,011, of which 7,217 were males and 6,794 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 2,232. The total number of literates in Bahraich was 9,155, which constituted 65.3% of the population with male literacy of 70.4% and female literacy of 60.0%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Dostpur was 77.7%, of which male literacy rate was 84.1% and female literacy rate was 71.0%. The Scheduled Castes population was 3,149. Dostpur had 1984 households in 2011. India census, Dostpur had a population of 11,877. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Dostpur has an average literacy rate of 57 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Indian
Cities
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Brahmin
Brahmin (; sa, ब्राह्मण, brāhmaṇa) is a varna as well as a caste within Hindu society. The Brahmins are designated as the priestly class as they serve as priests (purohit, pandit, or pujari) and religious teachers (guru or acharya). The other three varnas are the Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. The traditional occupation of Brahmins is that of priesthood at the Hindu temples or at socio-religious ceremonies, and rite of passage rituals such as solemnising a wedding with hymns and prayers.James Lochtefeld (2002), Brahmin, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. 1: A–M, Rosen Publishing, , page 125 Traditionally, the Brahmins are accorded the highest ritual status of the four social classes. Their livelihood is prescribed to be one of strict austerity and voluntary poverty ("A Brahmin should acquire what just suffices for the time, what he earns he should spend all that the same day"). In practice, Indian texts suggest that some Brahmins historicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar
Akbarpur is a city, municipal corporation, tehsil, and the administrative headquarters of Ambedkar Nagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a part of Ayodhya division. Mythology According to the ''Ramayana'', Akbarpur is where King Dashratha shot Dhanush Shravan Kumar, at the place called Shravan Kshetra. The ashram of the sage Shringi Rishi was situated here. According to the ''Ramayana'', Rama's son Kusha rules Shravasti. The Rajbhar King rules its eastern part. In the ''Ramayana'' Rama battled with many Rajbhar kings. Geography Akbarpur, is situated on the banks of the Tamsa River (also known as the Tons River). The Tamasa River divides the city of Ambedkarnagar into two parts, Akbarpur and Shahzadpur, with the latter being the commercial centre of the city. Lorepur, part of Akbarpur City, is noted as the location of the old palace and imambargah of Lorepur. Demographics As of 2011 Indian Census, Akbarpur had a total population of 111,447, of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier terms, such as '' pargana'' (''pergunnah'') and ''thana''. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a newer unit called mandal (circle) has come to replace the system of tehsils. It is generally smaller than a tehsil, and is meant for facilitating local self-government in the panchayat system. In West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, community development blocks are the empowered grassroots administrative unit, replacing tehsils. As an entity of local government, the tehsil office (panchayat samiti) exercises certain fiscal and administrative power over the villages and municipalities within its jurisdiction. It is the ultimate execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thana
Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station. * Thanas of Bangladesh, former subdistricts in the administrative geography of Bangladesh; later renamed ''upazila'' * in (British) Indian history, a ''thana'' was a group of princely states deemed too small to perform all functions separately *Thane is a city named after the word ''thana'' (police station) because it was important for its barracks back in colonial era, it is located in Konkan division, a province of India *Thana Bhawan (), also known simply as Thana, is a town in Uttar Pradesh, India See also * * {{wikt-inline, thana * Tana (other) * Thaana Thaana, Taana or Tāna ( ) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritic, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), ..., also known as Tāna, the modern writing syste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheduled Castes
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designated in one or other of the categories. For much of the period of British rule in the Indian subcontinent, they were known as the Depressed Classes. In modern literature, the ''Scheduled Castes'' are sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken" or "dispersed", having been popularised by B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), a Dalit himself, an economist, reformer, chairman of the Constituent Assembly of India, and Dalit leader during the independence struggle. Ambedkar preferred the term Dalit to Gandhi's term, Harijan, meaning "person of Hari/Vishnu" (or Man of God). In September 2018, the government "issued an advisory to all private satellite channels asking them to 'refrain' from using the nomenclature 'Dalit'", though "rights groups and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamindar
A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a native synonym for “estate”. The term means ''land owner'' in Persian. Typically hereditary, from whom they reserved the right to collect tax on behalf of imperial courts or for military purposes. During the period of British colonial rule in India many wealthy and influential zamindars were bestowed with princely and royal titles such as ''maharaja'' (great king), ''raja/rai'' (king) and ''nawab''. During the Mughal Empire, zamindars belonged to the nobility and formed the ruling class. Emperor Akbar granted them mansabs and their ancestral domains were treated as jagirs. Some zamindars who were Hindu by religion and brahmin or kayastha or kshatriya by caste were converted into Muslims by the Mughals. During the colonial era, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Indian Census
The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information for National Population Register (NPR) was also collected in the first phase, which will be used to issue a 12-digit unique identification number to all registered Indian residents by Unique Identification Authority of India. The second population enumeration phase was conducted between 9 and 28 February 2011. Census has been conducted in India since 1872 and 2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected. According to the provisional reports released on 31 March 2011, the Indian population increased to 1.21 billion with a decadal growth of 17.70%. Adult literacy rate increased to 74.04% with a decadal growth of 9.21%. The motto of the census was 'Our Census, Our future'. Spread across 28 states and 8 union territories, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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