Tilhar is a city and very old

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 administ ...

of Uttar Pradesh, and

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of the

Shahjahanpur district Shahjahanpur district is a districts of Uttar Pradesh India. It is a part of Bareilly division. It was established in 1813 by the British Government. Previously it was a part of district Bareilly. Geographically the main town is Shahjahanpur w ...

in the

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n state of

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. It is also a constituency of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. As the city was also known to supply bows to

Mughul The Mughal Empire was an early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Quote: "Although the first two Timurid emperors and many of their noblemen were recent migrants to the subcontinent, the d ...

armies, Tilhar was also known as Kamaan Nagar during the reign of emeror Jahangeer.

Demographics

2001 Census of India The 2001 Census of India was the 14th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1871. The population of India was counted as 1,028,737,436 consisting of 532,223,090 males and 496,514,346 females. Total population increased by 18 ...

, Tilhar had a population of 52,909, out of which 27,667 are males and 25,242 are females. Tilhar has an average literacy rate of 50.77%, below the state average of 67.68%; male literacy is 55.53%, and female literacy is 45.63%. In Tilhar, 14% of the population is under 0 — 6 years of age.

References

{{Commons category, Bows (archery), Bows Cities and towns in Shahjahanpur district