Siddharthnagar district is one of the 75

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

s of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh also known as the birthplace of

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in L ...

Siddharthnagar Siddharthnagar also known as Naugarh is a city and the district headquarters of Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the five Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Siddharthnagar district, though the constituency has been renamed to Ka ...

is the district headquarters. Siddharthnagar district is a part of

Basti division Basti Division is an administrative geographical unit of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Basti is the administrative headquarters of the division. Currently (2005), the division consists following districts A district is a type of administrati ...

. It was under

Kosala The Kingdom of Kosala (Sanskrit: ) was an ancient Indian kingdom with a rich culture, corresponding to the area within the region of Awadh in present-day Uttar Pradesh to Western Odisha. It emerged as a small state during the late Vedic peri ...

kingdom and also the

Shakya Shakya ( Pāḷi: ; sa, शाक्य, translit=Śākya) was an ancient eastern sub-Himalayan ethnicity and clan of north-eastern region of the Indian subcontinent, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. The Shakyas were organised ...

Kingdom in ancient times. Kalanamak rice is notable rice of Siddharthnagar, it is one of the finest and highest selling price rice. Presently its market selling price is 12000 rupee per quintal. Kalanamak rice farming boost the local economy which expended to 5000 hectare. Now Kalanamak rice is categorised under ODOP scheme.

Administrative divisions

Tehsils

Siddharthnagar district comprises five tehsils or sub-divisions each headed by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM): #

Naugarh Siddharthnagar also known as Naugarh is a city and the district headquarters of Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the five Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Siddharthnagar district, though the constituency has been renamed to Kap ...

Bansi Bansi is a town and a municipal board in Siddharthnagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India Bansi is situated on the bank of the Rapti River in Siddharthnagar District. Geography Bansi was located at the bank of the river Rapti at ...

# Domariyaganj # Itwa #

Shohratgarh Shohratgarh is a town and tehsil in Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh state of India. Demographics , the India census, the population of Shohratgarh town is 35000 and total population of this sub division is 420,532, with the sex ratio of 9 ...

Blocks

These Tehsils are further divided into 14

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s, each headed by a Block Development Officer (BDO): #

Barhani Bazar Barhani is a town and nagar panchayat in Siddharthnagar District in Uttar Pradesh state, India. This town also has a railway station on the Gorakhpur- Gonda Broad Gauge line of Indian Railways. It is adjacent to the Nepal border from Krishnanag ...

# Birdpur # Jogia # Uska Bazar #

# Methwal # Khesraha # Bhanwapur # Itwa # Khuniyaon #

Domariaganj Domariaganj is a town and tehsil of Siddharthnagar district in eastern Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the bank of the river Rapti, 30 km south of the Nepal border. Geography Domariaganj is located at . It has an average elevation of . ...

# Lotan

Demographics

Religion

According to the 2011 census, Siddharthnagar 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 usi ...

of 2,559,297, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 164th 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 25.17%. Siddharthnagar has a

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of 970

females Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...

for every 1000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of 67.81%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 15.97% and 0.47% of the population respectively.

Languages

At the time of the

2011 Census of India 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. Informatio ...

, 80.51% of the population in the district spoke

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

, 10.06%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, 4.73%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Awadhi Awadhi (; ), also known as Audhi (), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern India and Nepal. It is primarily spoken in the Awadh region of present-day Uttar Pradesh, India. The name ''Awadh'' is connected to Ayodhya, the ancient city ...

as their first language. The minority population is about 27% of the total population of the district. Siddharthnagar is a category "A" district; that is, it has socio-economic and basic amenities parameters below the national average.

History

Some scholars have suggested that modern-day Piprahwa-Ganwaria was the site of the ancient city of Kapilavastu, the capital of the

kingdom, where Siddhartha Gautama spent the first 29 years of his life, referring to

Buddhist texts Buddhist texts are those religious texts which belong to the Buddhist tradition. The earliest Buddhist texts were not committed to writing until some centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha. The oldest surviving Buddhist manuscripts ...

such as the

Pāli Canon The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school. During ...

. Others suggest that the original site of Kapilavastu is located to the northwest, at

Tilaurakot Tilaurakot is a neighborhood in Kapilvastu Municipality in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Province of southern Nepal. Previously it was a Village development committee. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5684 peopl ...

, in what is currently

Kapilvastu District Kapilvastu district ( ne, कपिलवस्तु जिल्ला ), often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of and in ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

Chetia Estate

Chetia Estate or riyasat of Chetia is a zamindari of Tripathi Brahmins, their seat was at Chetia, village in Siddharthnagar, constitute many villages."Proceedings. Official Report" Tripathi Haveli Chetia

Geography

Siddharthnagar district lies between 27°N to 27°28'N and 82°45'E to 83°10'E. It is part of Purvanchal. The district borders

Kapilvastu district Kapilvastu district ( ne, कपिलवस्तु जिल्ला ), often Kapilbastu, is one of the districts of Lumbini Province, Nepal. The district, with Kapilbastu municipality as its district headquarters, covers an area of and in ...

on the north and

Rupandehi district Rupandehi District ( ne, रुपन्देही जिल्ला; ), a part of Lumbini Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and covers an area of . The district headquarter is Bhairahawa. As per the national census 2011, ...

on the northeast. Otherwise, it is surrounded by other districts of Uttar Pradesh: Maharajganj on the east,

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and Sant Kabir Nagar on the south, and

Balrampur Balrampur is a city and a municipal board in Balrampur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is situated on the bank of river Rapti and is the district headquarters of Balrampur district. Demographics As of 2011 Indian Census, Bal ...

on the west. Siddharthnagar's area is 2,895 km².

Economy

In 2006, the

Ministry of Panchayati Raj The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a branch of the Government of India. Ministry of Panchayati Raj looks into all matters relating to the Panchayati Raj and Panchayati Raj Institutions. It was created in May 2004. The ministry is headed by a ...

named Siddharthnagar one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

Education

University and Colleges

Siddharth University Siddharth University (SU), is a state university located at Kapilvastu, Siddharth Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established on 17 June 2015 and affiliates colleges formerly affiliated to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University and ...

is a

state university A state university system in the United States is a group of public universities supported by an individual state, territory or federal district. These systems constitute the majority of public-funded universities in the country. State univer ...

in Kapilvastu, Siddharthnagar,

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 195 ...

. * Madhav Prasad Tripathi Medical College and Hospital, a government medical college in Siddharthnagar.

Notable people

Notable people from the district include: *

Kazi Jalil Abbasi Kazi Jalil Abbasi (1912-1996) was a freedom fighter and member of the 7th Lok Sabha and the 8th Lok Sabha of India. He also represented the Domariaganj constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Indian National Congress (I). Ear ...

, former minister of UP Government, former MLA of Domariyaganj Assembly constituency and former MP

Domariyaganj (Lok Sabha constituency) Domariyaganj (formerly Domariaganj) is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This constituency covers the entire Siddharthnagar district. Assembly segments Presently, Domariyaganj Lok Sabh ...

. *

Jagdambika Pal Jagdambika Pal is an Indian politician. He is a former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was also a member of 15th Lok Sabha & 16th Lok Sabha and was a member of Indian National Congress, until he resigned on 7 March 2014. Political career He ...

, former chief minister of UP Government and current

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for

. *

Mata Prasad Pandey Mata Prasad Pandey (born 31 December 1942) is an Indian politician and former Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for two terms. At present he is representing Itwa 305 constituency in Siddharthnagar of Uttar Pradesh. Career * Elected ...

, former speaker of UP Assembly MLA for Itwa. *

Brij Bhushan Tiwari Shri Brij Bhushan Tiwari (13 October 1941 – 25 April 2012) was a politician of the Samajwadi Party who was a Member of parliament, Rajya Sabha representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. The first t ...

, former MP

. * Mohammed Muqueem, former MP

and former MLA Itwa Assembly constituency. * Jai Pratap Singh, Former Minister of Health Uttar Pradesh MLA for Bansi Assembly constituency. * Satish Chandra Dwivedi, Minister of state (Independent charge) MLA for Itwa. * Shyam Dhani, MLA Kapilvastu. * Amar Singh Chaudhary, MLA

. * Raghvendra Pratap Singh, MLA Domariyaganj. *

Keshav Dev Malviya Keshav Dev Malaviya (11 August 1904–27 May 1981) was a leader of Indian National Congress and a union minister of India. He was a member of Lok Sabha from Domariyaganj, Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a stat ...

, Father of Indian petroleum industry. *

Yogendra Singh Yogendra Singh (November 2, 1932 – May 10, 2020) was an Indian sociologist. He was one of the founders of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, where he was a professor emeritus of Sociol ...

, Sociologist *

Saiyada Khatoon Saiyada Khatoon is an Indian politician and Samajwadi Party member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Domariyaganj since 2022. On 10 March 2022, after winning the election, Khatoon and 200 Samajwadi Party members were named in a fi ...

, MLA Domariyaganj.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Siddharthnagar District Districts of Uttar Pradesh