Hathras district (previously called Mahamaya Nagar district) is a

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. The city of Hathras is the district headquarters. Hathras district is a part of

Aligarh division Aligarh division, also known as Aligarh-city and Kol, is one of the administrative divisions of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This division consisted of all the districts of the lower Doab: *Aligarh District * Etah District *Hathras Dist ...

. The district occupies an area of and has a population of 1,564,708 as of the 2011 census.

History

Hathras district was created on 3 May 1997 by incorporating parts of the

Aligarh Aligarh (; formerly known as Allygarh, and Kol) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Aligarh district, and lies northwest of state capital Lucknow and approximately southeast of the cap ...

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, and

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districts. It was originally named Mahamaya Nagar (named for

Mayadevi Queen Māyā of Shakya ( sa, मायादेवी, pi, Māyādevī) was the birth mother of Gautama Buddha, the sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. She was sister of Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī, the first Buddhist nun ordained by the ...

, mother of the Buddha) and was renamed to Hathras district in 2012.

Divisions

The district comprises four

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 administr ...

s: Hathras, Sadabad,

Sikandra Rao Sikandra Rao is a town in Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the three assembly constituencies of the district and a Municipal board. The current MLA from the constituency is senior BJP leader Birendra Singh Rana.The town is locat ...

, and

Sasni Sasni is a town and a nagar panchayat in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Demographics India census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a giv ...

, which are further divided into seven blocks: Sasni, Hathras,

Mursan Mursan is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The primary spoken language is a dialect of Hindi, Braj Bhasha, which is closely related to Khariboli. In past, Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh was the ...

, Sadabad, Sahpau, Hasanpur Baru,

, and Hasayan. There are three

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constituencies in this district: Hathras, Sadabad, and

. All of these are part of Hathras Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Hathras district has a

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

of 1,564,708, roughly equal to the nation of

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. This gives it a ranking of 319th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has an area of and a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001–2011 was 17.12%. Hathras has a

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of 871

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for every 1,000 males, and a

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of 60.2%. Scheduled Castes made up 24.77% of the population. At the time of the

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, 98.16% of the population in the district spoke

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and 1.24%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

The local language is

Braj Braj, also known as Vraj, Vraja, Brij or Brijbhoomi, is a region in India on both sides of the Yamuna river with its centre at Mathura- Vrindavan in Uttar Pradesh state encompassing the area which also includes Palwal and Ballabhgarh in Harya ...

Transport

Four railway stations serve Hathras:

Hathras Junction railway station Hathras Junction railway station is on the Kanpur–Delhi section of Howrah–Delhi main line and Howrah–Gaya–Delhi line. It is located in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It serves Hathras and surrounding areas. St ...

Hathras Road railway station Hathras Road railway station is a small railway station in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh with the station code HTJ. The station consists of a single platform and lacks many facilities including water, sanitation, and shelter. About Hathras ...

Hathras City railway station Hathras City railway station is a railway station in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh. Its station code is HTC. About Hathras City railway station is a two-platform station serving Hathras City. From this station there are links to the Hathras ...

, and

Hathras Kila railway station Hathras Kila railway station is a freight Terminus train station in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is HRF. It serves Hathras city. The station consists of one platform. The platform is not well sheltered. It lacks many facilities including ...

Notable people

* Birendra Singh Rana (MLA) * Ramveer Upadhyay (MLA)

References

{{Uttar Pradesh Districts of Uttar Pradesh 1997 establishments in Uttar Pradesh

History

Divisions

Demographics

Transport

Notable people

See also

References