Hasanpur is a city and a municipality in
Amroha district
Amroha district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Amroha town is the district headquarters. According to the Government of India, the district is one of the Minority Concentrated Districts on the basis of the ...
of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
,
India
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. The city is around 120 kilometeres from the national capital Delhi and 12 km from the NH-24. Hasanpur is known for its diversity and communal harmony. The town consists of a Kotwali (Police Stationj), a Community Health Center(Govt. Hospital) and many banks.
History
Hasanpur is named after a
Pathan
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...
ruler named Hasan Khan, also called Mubarak Khan, who drove out the previous
Goshain rulers and gained control of the town in 1634. The Pathans remained the primary
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 ...
s until the 20th century, although at the turn of the century the most important Pathan family was the Nimwala family, who were of more recent origin than the original founders. The Nimwalas traced their ancestry three or four generations back to one Bahadur Ali Khan.
During the late 1800s, Hasanpur grew in importance as a trade centre, and some
Banias
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became fairly wealthy, and its population increased from 8,082 in 1847 to 9,579 in 1901. At that time its population was about 50%
Muslim and 50%
Hindu
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. The neighboring settlement of
Mubarakpur
Mubarakpur is a town and a municipal board in Azamgarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located at a distance of 13 km north-east of the district headquarters in Azamgarh.
Geography
Mubarakpur is located at . It has ...
was incorporated into Hasanpur in 1877. In the early 20th century the main industry was
cotton
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cloth. There was a police station, a dispensary, a
sarai, a cattle pound, and a post office, along with one
middle school
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, one
primary school
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, and one
girls' school
Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. The practice of ...
. There were also two private schools, one teaching
Arabic
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and the other teaching
Sanskrit
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. The Arabic school was run by one Haji Ahmad Husain Khan
Demographics
India
census
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,
Hasanpur had a population of 211,533 of which males constituted 57% of the population and females 43%. Hasanpur has an average literacy rate of 43% which is lower than the national average of 59.5%. The male literacy is 49% and female literacy rate is 37%. In Hasanpur, 18% of the population is under the age of 6.
References
Cities and towns in Amroha district
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