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Kapurthala district
District of Punjab
Kapurthala Sainik School, former palace of the Maharajas of Kapurthala
Kapurthala Sainik School, former palace of the Maharajas of Kapurthala
Location in Punjab
Location in Punjab
Coordinates: 31°22′46″N 75°23′05″E / 31.37944°N 75.38472°E / 31.37944; 75.38472
Country  India
State Punjab
Named for Nawab Kapur Singh
Headquarters Kapurthala
Government
 • Deputy commissionerD P S Kharbanda IAS
Area
 • Total1,633 km2 (631 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [‡]
 • Total815,168
 • Density500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Punjabi
Time zone UTC+5:30 ( IST)
Vehicle registrationPB-09
Literacy80.20%
Website www.kapurthala.gov.in

Kapurthala district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. The city of Kapurthala is the district headquarters.

Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population, with 815,168 people by the 2011 census. The district is divided into two noncontiguous parts, the main Kapurthala- Sultanpur Lodhi portion and the Phagwara tehsil or block.[ citation needed]

The Kapurthala-Sultanpur Lodhi part lies between north latitude 31° 07' and 31° 22' and east longitude 75° 36'. In the north it is bound by Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, and Amritsar districts, in the west by the Beas River and Amritsar district, and in south by the Sutlej River, Jalandhar district, and Hoshiaripur district.

Phagwa tehsil lies between north latitude 31° 22' and east longitude 75° 40' and 75° 55'. Phagwara lies on the National Highway No 1, and the tehsil is much more industrially developed than the remainder of Kaurthala District. Phagwa is situated at a distance of 19 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Jalandhar, and the tehsil is bounded on two sides by Jalandhar District whereas north by Hoshiarpur district and east by S B S nagar district.

The district has three subdivisions/ tehsils: Kapurthala, Phagwara, and Sultanpur Lodhi. The total area of the district is 1,633 km (1,015 mi) of which 909.09 km2 (351.00 sq mi) is in Kapurthala tehsil, 304.05 km2 (117.39 sq mi) is in Phagwara tehsil and 451.0 km2 (174.1 sq mi) is in Saltanpur Lodu tehsil. The economy of the district is still predominantly agricultural.

Demographics

Photograph of rural life in Kapurthala in 1927, a true-colour photograph taken by Albert Kahn

According to the 2011 census Kapurthala district has a population of 815,168, [1] roughly equal to the nation of Comoros [2] or the US state of South Dakota. [3] This gives it a ranking of 481st in India (out of a total of 640). [1] The district has a population density of 501 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,300/sq mi). [1] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 8.37%. [1] Kapurthala has a sex ratio of 912 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 80.2%. Scheduled Castes made up 33.94% of the population. [1]

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1951295,071—    
1961343,778+1.54%
1971429,514+2.25%
1981545,249+2.41%
1991646,647+1.72%
2001754,521+1.55%
2011815,168+0.78%
source: [4]

Gender

The table below shows the sex ratio of Kapurthala district through decades.

Sex ratio of Kapurthala district [5]
Census year Ratio
2011 912
2001 887
1991 896
1981 898
1971 889
1961 886
1951 880

The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Kapurthala district.

Child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in Kapurthala district [6]
Year Urban Rural
2011 896 859
2001 792 782

Religions

Religion in Kapurthala district (2011) [7]
Religion Percent
Sikhism
 
 55.66%
Hinduism
 
 41.23%
Islam
 
 1.25%
Buddhism
 
 0.82%
Christianity
 
 0.66%
Other or not stated
 
 0.38%

Sikhs are the majority in Kapurthala district, and dominate rural areas. Hindus are the majority in urban areas. [7]

Religious groups in Kapurthala State ( British Punjab province era)
Religious
group 		1901 [8] 1911 [9] [10] 1921 [11] 1931 [12] 1941 [13]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Islam 178,326 56.73% 152,117 56.73% 160,457 56.44% 179,251 56.59% 213,754 56.49%
Hinduism [a] 93,652 29.79% 61,426 22.91% 58,412 20.55% 64,319 20.31% 61,546 16.27%
Sikhism 42,101 13.39% 54,275 20.24% 64,074 22.54% 72,177 22.79% 88,350 23.35%
Jainism 226 0.07% 205 0.08% 228 0.08% 27 0.01% 380 0.1%
Christianity 39 0.01% 107 0.04% 1,100 0.39% 983 0.31% 1,667 0.44%
Zoroastrianism 4 0% 3 0% 4 0% 0 0% 6 0%
Buddhism 3 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Judaism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Others 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 12,677 3.35%
Total population 314,351 100% 268,133 100% 284,275 100% 316,757 100% 378,380 100%
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.

The table below shows the numbers of different religious groups in the urban areas of Kapurthala district, through the years. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]

Absolute numbers of various religious groups in urban areas of Kapurthala district by census year [20]
Year Hindu Sikh Christian Muslim Other Religions
2011 1,83,623 89,331 1,900 3,965 3,643
2001 1,50,751 89,421 1,406 2,461 2,488
1991 1,06,614 55,075 566 573 590

Language

Languages of Kapurthala district (2011) [21]

   Punjabi (91.20%)
   Hindi (7.23%)
  Others (1.57%)

At the time of the 2011 census, 91.20% of the population spoke Punjabi and 7.23% Hindi as their first language. [21]

Health

According to the National Blindness and Visual Survey India 2015-19, 11.53% people in Kapurthala district above the age of 50 were visually impaired. [22]

The table below shows the data from the district nutrition profile of children below the age of 5 years, in Kapurthala, as of year 2020.

District nutrition profile of children under 5 years of age in Kapurthala, year 2020 [23]
Indicators Number of children (<5 years) Percent (2020) Percent (2016)
Stunted 13,534 28% 35%
Wasted 4,931 10% 23%
Severely wasted 1,328 3% 11%
Underweight 9,973 21% 27%
Overweight/obesity 1,313 3% 1%
Anemia 32,889 76% 61%
Total children 48,111

The table below shows the district nutrition profile of Kapurthala of women between the ages of 15 to 49 years, as of year 2020.

District nutritional profile of Kapurthala of women of 15-49 years, in 2020 [24]
Indicators Number of women (15-49 years) Percent (2020) Percent (2016)
Underweight (BMI <18.5 kg/m^2) 31,663 16% 11%
Overweight/obesity 76,581 39% 24%
Hypertension 50,788 26% 12%
Diabetes 29,369 15% NA
Anemia (non-preg) 123,249 63% 43%
Anemia (preg) 6,298 58% 27%
Total women (preg) 10,907
Total women 194,368

Politics

No. Constituency Name of MLA Party Bench
26 Bholath Sukhpal Singh Khaira Indian National Congress Opposition
27 Kapurthala Rana Gurjeet Singh Indian National Congress Opposition
28 Sultanpur Lodhi Rana Inder Pratap Singh Independent politician Opposition
29 Phagwara (SC) Balwinder Singh Dhaliwal Indian National Congress Opposition

Notable people

Notes

  1. ^ 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "District Census Hand Book – Kapurthala" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  2. ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Comoros 794,683 July 2011 est.
  3. ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 18 November 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011. South Dakota 814,180
  4. ^ Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
  5. ^ "District-wise Decadal Sex ratio in Punjab". Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ https://punjab.data.gov.in/catalog/district-wise-rural-and-urban-child-population-0-6-years-and-their-sex-ratio-punjab [ bare URL]
  7. ^ a b "Table C-01 Population by Religious Community: Punjab". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  8. ^ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR  saoa.crl.25363739. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1911. p. 27. JSTOR  saoa.crl.25393788. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  10. ^ Kaul, Harikishan (1911). "Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II". p. 27. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables". 1921. p. 29. JSTOR  saoa.crl.25430165. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  12. ^ "Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1931. p. 277. JSTOR  saoa.crl.25793242. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab". 1941. p. 42. JSTOR  saoa.crl.28215541. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
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  17. ^ https://punjab.data.gov.in/resource/district-wise-no-muslim-urban-population-1991-2011 [ bare URL]
  18. ^ https://punjab.data.gov.in/resource/district-wise-no-christian-urban-population-1991-2011 [ bare URL]
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  21. ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Punjab". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  22. ^ https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1808234, Annexure-I
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