Adamwahan is a village in

Lodhran Tehsil Lodhran is an administrative unit of district Lodhran under the Multan Division of Punjab province (Pakistan). Development wise, it is more developed than the other two tehsils of district Lodhran; Kehror Pakka and Dunyapur. The city became more fa ...

Lodhran District Lodhran District (), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, with the city of Lodhran as its capital. Located on the northern side of the River Sutlej, it is bounded to the north by the districts of Multan, Khanewal and Vehari, to ...

Punjab, Pakistan Punjab (, ) is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. With a population of over 127 million, it is the Demographics of Pakistan, most populous province in Pakistan and the List of first-level administrative divisions by popu ...

. It was the seat of a

pargana Pargana or parganah, also spelt pergunnah, equivalent to Mohallah as a subunit of Subah (Suba), was a type of former administrative division in the Indian subcontinent during the time of the Delhi Sultanate, Mughal and British Colonial empire ...

in the late 16th century.

History

Ādamwāhan was listed in the

Ain-i-Akbari The ''Ain-i-Akbari'' (), or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 16th-century detailed document regarding the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl, in the Persian language. It forms ...

as a

in sarkar

Multan Multan is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, fifth-most populous city in the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Located along the eastern bank of the Chenab River, it is the List of cities in Pakistan by populatio ...

, counted as part of the Bet Jalandhar Doab. It was assessed at 369,445

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s in revenue and supplied a force of 30 cavalry and 700 infantry.

Demographics

As of the

2017 Census of Pakistan The 2017 Census of Pakistan was a detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population which began on 15 March 2017 and ended on 25 May 2017. It was the first census taken in the country in the 21st century, nineteen years after the previous one i ...

, Adamwahan had a population of 9,869 (5,060 male, 4,804 female, and 5 other). The average household size was 7.22 people. In terms of age distribution, 32.1% of Adamwahan residents were under age 10 in 2017 (3,167 in total); 18.9% were between 10 and 18 (1,870 in total); 43.8% were between 18 and 60 (4,327 in total); and 5.1% were over the age of 60 (505 in total). The village's working population was 694 (not counting children under the age of 10). In terms of religion, all 9,869 residents were Muslim. The overall literacy rate in the village was 39.88% (49.64% among males and 29.68% among females). In terms of education, a total of 814 males and 506 females had completed

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but had not completed

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exams; 251 males and 133 females had completed matriculation but not university, and 60 males and 32 females had completed university. The village had 1,260 houses as of 2017; 942 were pakka, 114 were semi-pakka, and 204 were kachcha. 1,210 houses (96.0%) had potable water, 1,163 (92.3%) had access to electricity, 369 (29.3%) had access to gas, 365 (29.0%) had a kitchen, 866 (68.7%) had a bathroom, and 765 (60.1%) had a latrine.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Lodhran District Parganas of sarkar Multan listed in the Ain-i-Akbari

History

Demographics

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