Sri Muktsar Sahib district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

. The capital city of district is

Sri Muktsar Sahib Sri Muktsar Sahib ( ), often referred to as simply Muktsar, is a historical city and district headquarters in Punjab, India. The 2011 census of India put the total population of Sri Muktsar Sahib municipality at 117,085, making it the 14th large ...

. The district itself was historically referred to as Khidrane Di Dhaab. There are four

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

s in the district, which consists of a total of 234 villages. The tehsils are

, Lambi,

Giddarbaha Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab. It is from the city of Malout, from the city of Bathinda and from the city of Muktsar. It lies on NH-7, which connects Fazilka (Punjab) to Ma ...

and

Malout Malout is a town, just outside of Sri Muktsar Sahib, Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in Ind ...

History

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(Nanak II), the Second Guru of the Sikhs, was born in the village Matte-di-Sarai (Sarainaga) in 1504 in the same district. The last battlefield of the tenth

Sikh Guru The Sikh gurus (Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ; Hindi: सिख गुरु) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established the religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year ...

, Shri Guru Gobind Singh ji, lies in the district's main city. The Battle of Muktsar, a major battle between the

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and the

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, occurred in present-day Sri Muktsar Sahib during 1705. The Gurudwara Tibbi Sahib was built to mark the battlefield. They were led by Mai Bhago and Mahan Singh. The Sri Muktsar Sahib district was formed as a new district on 7 November 1995 by the separation of the Muktsar subdivision from the

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. The district has many historical Gurudwaras including the Darbar Sahib - Tuti Gandi Sahib Gurudwara, the Shaheed Ganj Gurudwara, Tibbi Sahib Gurudwara, Datansar Sahib Gurudwara, Rakabsar Sahib Gurudwara in the Sri Muktsar Sahib city, and several others in the district's respective villages. The Mela

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fair is celebrated annually in January in the

city in remembrance of the forty martyrs (liberated ones). The Muktsari jutti is famous throughout the world. The shops making and selling these pieces of art are located around the Gurudwara Sahib in the heart of Sri Muktsar Sahib city.

Gidderbaha Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab (India), Punjab. It is from the city of Malout, from the city of Bathinda and from the city of Muktsar. It lies on National Highway 7 (India), NH- ...

manufactures naswaar which is supplied throughout India.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Sri Muktsar Sahib district has a total population of 901,896, which consists of

222,937,

348,165 &

330,794 roughly equal to the nation of

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or the

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. This gives it a ranking of 464th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 16.1%. It has a

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of 895 females for every 1000 males and a literacy rate of 66.8%. Scheduled Castes made up 42.31% of the population.

Gender

The table below shows the sex ratio of Muktsar district through decades. The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Muktsar district.

Religion

The table below shows the population of different religions in absolute numbers in the urban and rural areas of Muktsar district.

Language

At the time of the 2011 census, 92.13% of the population spoke Punjabi and 6.79%

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as their first language. Bagri is spoken in the south of the district along the Rajasthan and Haryana border.

Health

The table below shows the data from the district nutrition profile of children below the age of 5 years, in Muktsar, as of 2020. The table below shows the district nutrition profile of Muktsar, of women between the ages of 15 and 49 years, as of 2020. The table below shows the current use of family planning methods by currently married women between the ages of 15 and 49 years, in Sri Muktsar Sahib district. The table below shows the number of road accidents and people affected in Sri Muktsar Sahib district by year.

Economy

In 2014-15, there were 2,371 registered Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) units in Sri Muktsar Sahib district, which provided employment to 8,846 people. There were 4 registered Medium and Large industrial units, which provided employment to 2,064 people."Brief Industrial Profile of Sri Muktsar Sahib District", MSME Development Institute, Government of India, Ministry of MSME, Page 6, Table 3.2, https://dcmsme.gov.in/old/dips/Muktsar.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjz-qOwm--FAxVN6jgGHUQIDBMQFnoECFUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw25GFURgL-YAiihBAq2t94l

Politics

Notable people

Gurdas Maan Gurdas Maan (born 4 January 1957) is an Indian singer, songwriter and actor mainly associated with Punjabi language music and films. He gained national attention in 1980 with the song "Dil Da Mamla Hai". Since then, he had gone on to record ov ...

, musician and writer * Deep Sidhu, actor *

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, Canadian politician * Gurkeerat Singh, cricketer * Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, politician, president of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee *

Parkash Singh Badal Parkash Singh Badal (8 December 1927 – 25 April 2023) was an Indian politician and Sikh rights advocate who served as the 8th Chief Minister of Punjab from 1970 to 1971, from 1977 to 1980, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2007 to 2017, the longes ...

, politician, former

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* Jagdeep Singh Kaka Brar, politician *

Jaani (songwriter) Rajiv Arora (born 25 May 1989), known professionally as Jaani, is an Indian songwriter and music composer associated with Punjabi language, Punjabi and Hindi language songs. His notable songs "Naah", "Kya Baat Ay", "Pachtaoge", "Filhall", "Tit ...

* Deepinder Goyal, co-founder of Zomato

References

External links

* {{Punjab (India) Districts of Punjab, India