Firozpur district

Firozpur district Firojpur district
District
Memorial gurudwara for Battle of Saragarhi in Firozpur
Location in Punjab
Coordinates: 30°56′24″N 74°37′12″E / 30.94000°N 74.62000°E / 30.94000; 74.62000
Country	India
State	Punjab
Founded by	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Named for	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Headquarters	Firozpur
Area
• Total	2,406.84 km2 (929.29 sq mi)
• Rank	230th
Population  (2011)[‡]
• Total	1,001,931
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	PB 05
Literacy	69.80%
No. of villages	639
Lok Sabha constituency	1
Vidhan Sabha constituency	4
Website	ferozepur.nic.in

Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2,190 km² (850 sq mi).

Firozpur (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.

According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074.^[1] This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 380 inhabitants per square kilometre (980/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)^[2]

After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.^[3]

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 in Undivided Firozpur District

Religious group	2011[6]
	Pop.	%
Sikhism	1,090,815	53.76%
Hinduism	906,408	44.67%
Christianity	19,358	0.95%
Islam	6,844	0.34%
Jainism	1,143	0.06%
Buddhism	454	0.02%
Others	4,052	0.2%
Total Population	2,029,074	100%

Religious groups in Firozpur District (British Punjab province era)

Religious group	1901[7]		1911[8][9]		1921[10]		1931[11]		1941[12]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Islam	447,615	46.72%	418,553	43.61%	482,540	43.94%	515,430	44.56%	641,448	45.07%
Hinduism [b]	279,099	29.13%	273,832	28.53%	306,350	27.89%	244,688	21.15%	287,733	20.22%
Sikhism	228,355	23.83%	262,511	27.35%	302,761	27.57%	388,108	33.55%	479,486	33.69%
Christianity	1,908	0.2%	3,342	0.35%	5,365	0.49%	7,070	0.61%	12,607	0.89%
Jainism	1,090	0.11%	1,401	0.15%	1,211	0.11%	1,411	0.12%	1,674	0.12%
Zoroastrianism	4	0%	18	0%	15	0%	24	0%	28	0%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	6	0%	1	0%	1	0%
Judaism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	13	0%
Others	1	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	86	0.01%
Total population	958,072	100%	959,657	100%	1,098,248	100%	1,156,732	100%	1,423,076	100%
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

Religion in the Tehsils of Firozpur District (1921)^[10]

Tehsil	Hinduism		Islam		Sikhism		Christianity		Jainism		Others[c]		Total
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Firozpur Tehsil	56,486	25.47%	115,506	52.09%	46,535	20.99%	2,655	1.2%	534	0.24%	21	0.01%	221,737	100%
Zira Tehsil	27,037	16.25%	105,123	63.19%	33,296	20.01%	628	0.38%	289	0.17%	0	0%	166,373	100%
Moga Tehsil	41,074	19.6%	50,188	23.95%	117,503	56.07%	767	0.37%	26	0.01%	0	0%	209,558	100%
Muktsar Tehsil	54,266	25.88%	88,029	41.99%	66,408	31.68%	603	0.29%	339	0.16%	0	0%	209,645	100%
Fazilka Tehsil	127,487	43.82%	123,694	42.52%	39,019	13.41%	712	0.24%	23	0.01%	0	0%	290,935	100%
Note: British Punjab province era tehsil borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to tehsil borders — which since created new tehsils — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

Religion in the Tehsils of Firozpur District (1941)^[12]

Tehsil	Hinduism [b]		Islam		Sikhism		Christianity		Jainism		Others[d]		Total
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Firozpur Tehsil	53,520	18.44%	160,371	55.25%	70,782	24.38%	3,847	1.33%	745	0.26%	1,021	0.35%	290,286	100%
Zira Tehsil	18,863	8.95%	137,586	65.26%	50,209	23.82%	3,801	1.8%	349	0.17%	11	0.01%	210,819	100%
Moga Tehsil	30,531	10.91%	66,855	23.9%	181,454	64.86%	823	0.29%	32	0.01%	68	0.02%	279,763	100%
Muktsar Tehsil	46,169	17.13%	115,350	42.79%	106,270	39.42%	948	0.35%	313	0.12%	529	0.2%	269,579	100%
Fazilka Tehsil	138,650	37.21%	161,286	43.28%	70,771	18.99%	1,612	0.43%	235	0.06%	75	0.02%	372,629	100%
Note1: British Punjab province era tehsil borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to tehsil borders — which since created new tehsils — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases. Note2: Tehsil religious breakdown figures for Christianity only includes local Christians, labeled as "Indian Christians" on census. Does not include Anglo-Indian Christians or British Christians, who were classified under "Other" category.

At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.^[13]

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

The district is administratively into the following tehsils:^[1]

• Firozpur
• Zira
• Guru Har Sahai

List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur

• Makhu
• Talwandi Bhai
• Mamdot
• Mudki

Blocks of district Firozpur

• Firozpur
• Ghall Khurd
• Guru Har Sahai
• Makhu
• Mamdot
• Zira

Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur

• Firozpur
• Firozpur Rural
• Guru Har Sahai
• Zira

• Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
• Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American cardiologist, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
• Kamaljeet Sandhu, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
• Man Mohan Sondhi, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories, famous for his research on echo cancellation.
• Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri, highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib.
• Sada Kaur, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
• Gerry Whent, founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
• Mahabali Shera, Indian professional wrestler.
• Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
• Verma Malik, an active freedom fighter during the British Raj, a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
• Frederick Currie (cricketer), an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

• "District Ferozepur". Retrieved 18 October 2007.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferozepur" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 281–282.