Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three

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s in the 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 ...

, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of .

Firozpur Firozpur, (pronunciation: ɪroːzpʊr also known as Ferozepur, is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in the Firozpur District of Punjab, India. After the Partition of India in 1947, it became a border town on the India–Pakistan bor ...

(Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.

History

Ferozepore district was annexed by the British from its former

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rulers after the

First Anglo-Sikh War The First Anglo-Sikh War was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company in 1845 and 1846 around the Firozpur district of Punjab. It resulted in the defeat and partial subjugation of the Sikh empire and cession of Jammu ...

of 1845–1846.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a

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of 2,029,074.Population - Firozpur Online
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). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a

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of 893

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.) After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.

Gender

The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur 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 Firozpur district.

Religion

Language

At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke

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and 5.67%

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as their first language.

Health

The table below shows the number of road accidents and people affected in Firozpur district by year.

Politics

Administration

The district is administratively into the following tehsils: *

* Zira *

Guru Har Sahai Guru Har Sahai is a city and a municipal council in Ferozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Nearby cities are Ferozepur (40 km northeast), Sri Muktsar Sahib (30 km south), Fazilka (65 km southwest), Bathinda (84 km southeast). Hi ...

List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur *

Makhu Makhu is a town and a nagar panchayat in Ferozepur district in Indian state of Punjab. Geography Makhu has an average elevation of 201 metres (659 feet). This town is located near the edge of Harike Sanctuary. It is 5 km away from t ...

Talwandi Bhai Talwandi Bhai is a town having a municipal council situated in Ferozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab. It is situated on national highways NH5 and NH54 (old NH15 and NH95). It started its journey as grain market The grain trade refe ...

* Mamdot * Mudki Blocks of district Firozpur *

* Ghall Khurd *

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* Firozpur Rural *

* Zira

Land and genealogical records

Shajjra Nasb (also known as ''Kursee Nama'') records of some villages of Firozpur district from 1887–1958 have been digitized by the

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and are available for online viewing. These records detail land ownership pedigrees for families of the village. The genealogical importance of such records for the purpose of family history research was raised by Gurcharan Singh Gill of Moga. Gill discovered in 1986 that tax-records in the district were attached to a genealogical pedigree going back four generations. These records have been described as being one of the few surviving records of Punjabi genealogy, as census records in India were rarely preserved. The more recent records were written in Punjabi using Gurmukhi script and the older records were written in Urdu in Nastaliq script. The names of more than 250,000 individuals have been extracted from the records by Gill.

Notable people

Mohinder Singh Randhawa Mohinder Singh Randhawa or M. S. Randhawa (2 February 1909 – 3 March 1986) was an Indian historian, civil servant, botanist, and author. He played major roles in the establishment of agricultural research in India, the Green Revolution i ...

, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author * Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American

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, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon" *

Kamaljeet Sandhu Kamaljeet Kaur Kooner nee Sandhu (born 20 August 1948) is a female Indian athlete who won gold medal at 1970 Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race. She ran the distance in 57.3 seconds. She is the first Indian woman athlete to win an individual gol ...

, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in

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and receiver of

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award. *

Man Mohan Sondhi Man Mohan Sondhi (18 December 1933 – 4 February 2018) was a prominent researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories during 1962–2001. He was famous for his research on echo cancellation. Born in Firozpur ...

, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at

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. * Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the

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Sada Kaur Rani Sada Kaur (Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਸਦਾ ਕੌਰ; 1762 – 1832) was a Sikhs, Sikh leader. She served as the Chief of the Kanhaiya Misl from 1789 to 1821, following the death of her husband Gurbaksh Singh Kanhaiya, the heir to Jai ...

, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa. *

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, founder and first chief executive of

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, an active freedom fighter during the

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