Amroha district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh. Amroha was earlier a part of Moradabad district. On 15 April 1997, it was separated from Moradabad and made a new district. This district was named Jyotiba Phule Nagar, but in 2012 it was changed to Amroha

History

The Battle of Amroha was fought between the

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and Alauddin Khilji on 20 December 1305. Alauddin won the battle. Later, the territory occupied by the present district was part of the Sambhal sarkar of Delhi subah under the

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. Later it came under the control of

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. In 1801, the administration of this territory was ceded to the

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by the Nawab of Awadh. On 24 April 1997, this district was carved out by separating Amroha, Dhanora and Hasanpur tehsils of the erstwhile Moradabad district. In 2012, this district was renamed from ''Jyotiba Phule Nagar district'' to ''Amroha district''.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, 'Amroha District' has a

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of 1,840,221, 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 258th in India (out of a total of 640). The population density is and the population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 22.66%. Amroha has a

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of 907 females for every 1,000 males, and a

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of 65.7%. 24.93% of the population lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes make up 17.28% of the population.

Religion

Even though the district is

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majority,

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form a significant minority and dominate urban areas. As per the 2011 census out of 9 Census towns

formed the majority in 7 while

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were in majority in Gajraula (77.33%) and Dhanaura (66.38%) towns.

Language

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 80.10% of the population of the district spoke

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and 19.70%

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as their first language.

Villages

* Burawali * Semla

Notable people

* Ahmad Hasan Amrohi, Islamic scholar * Kamal Amrohi, filmmaker, lyricist, actor, director, husband of Meena Kumari * Dr. Azeem Amrohvi, poet and critic * Dr Naseem uz Zafar Baquiri, poet, lyricist, doctor * Jaun Elia, poet and columnist * Nisar Ahmed Faruqi, scholar and authority on Sufism * Eqbal Mehdi, artist * Saiyed Zegham Murtaza, journalist, author, blogger and documentary film maker * K. A. Nizami, historian * Sadequain, (AKA Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi) - artist * Mohammed Shami, cricketer * Nawab Waqar ul Mulk, educationalist, politician

Media

Amroha has several active media groups which continuously give the populace Hindi news updates on Amroha: * Amar Ujala *Dainik Bhaskar *Dainik Jagran *Awam-e-hind *Amroha ki Ekta(Hindi Weekly newspaper)

References

External links

* Rickard, J (7 April 2010), Battle of Amroha, 20 December 1305, historyofwar.org {{Uttar Pradesh Districts of Uttar Pradesh Minority concentrated districts in India