The name 'Fatehabad' is a combination of two words: 'Fateh' and 'ābād' where 'Fateh' is the name of eldest son of Firuz Shah Tughlaq and 'ābād' translates to 'prosperous' or 'settled'.[4]
Kushan empire.[citation needed] According to Anant Sadashiv Altekar, the Yaudheys made a second bid for independence towards the end of the 2nd century AD when they succeeded in freeing their homeland and ousted the Kushans. This finds support from seals discovered at the Agroha Mound. [citation needed
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Maharaja Amar Singh of Patiala who along with his minister Dewan Nanumal laid siege to the stronghold of Bighar near Fatehabad
There is a small mosque known as Humanyun mosque at Fatehabad.
Bhattis of north-west and the Muslim chiefs of the south. None of them could, however, hold the region permanently except for the Bhattis who became the masters of Fatehabad pargana. In 1774, Maharaja Amar Singh of Patiala along with his famous minister Dewan Nanumal laid siege
to the stronghold of Bighar near Fatehabad which fell shortly afterwards.
The Raja then took Fatehabad and Sirsa and invaded Rania held by Bhattis. Tohana also was seized by the Chief of Patiala. But after a treaty of Jind in 1781, Fatehabad and Sirsa were made over to the Bhattis and remaining territories were allowed to be retained by the Sikhs. By 1798, Agroha and Tohana were important parganas under the control of George Thomas. When George Thomas was driven out from here by the Sikh-Maratha Confederacy, a French officer, Lt. Bourquian, controlled these areas on behalf of Marathas. He is said to have rebuilt the towns of Tohana and Hissar. Later these areas were placed under the charge of Illias Beg, a Mughal noble of Hansi.[citation needed]
In November 1884, the Sirsa district was abolished and Sirsa tahsil after the distribution of villages was formed. In 1889, 15 villages forming a detached block known as
Adampur of Hissar tahsil were created in 1979. By the end of 1978, the Hissar district comprised 486 villages, divided between tahsils of Fatehabad (166); Hissar (115), Hansi (119) and Tohana (86). Fatehabad came into existence as a full-fledged district with effect from 15 July 1997, now having three sub-divisions, three tahsils and three sub-tahsils.[citation needed
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Administrative set-up
Fatehabad district is a part of
Haryana Vidhan Sabha: Fatehabad, Tohana and Ratia.[7]
Being a part of Indo-Gagnetic planes, most of the part is covered by alluvial soil, interrupted by randomly located sand dunes. Soil varies from sandy to loamy.[9]
The northern part of district is drained by Ghaghara-Hakra system.[9]
The climate of the district is of tropical type with intensively hot summer and cool winter, with a temperature of 47 °C in June and 2 °C in December and January. The average rainfall of the district is 400 mm. The average annual rainfall in the district is 395.6 mm. The rainfall increases generally from the west towards the east and varies from 339.1 mm at Fatehabad to 428.4 mm at Hisar. About 71 percent of the annual normal rainfall is received during the short southwest monsoon period, July to September, July, and August being the rainiest months.[2]
20% of rainfall occurs in the non-monsoon period, which is mostly contributed by
Cheap transportation facilities are available via state bus transport. The new bus stand is situated at Sector 5, Hisar Road and has started serving buses, but the older one situated in Model Town is still functional. Buses stop at arbitrary places in villages and towns for people to board buses.
Auto-rickshaws are available in urban region. Manually driven rickshaws and E-rickshaws are also found.
640).[11] The district has a population density of 371 inhabitants per square kilometre (960/sq mi) .[11] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.79%.[11] Fatehabad has a sex ratio of 902[15]females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.1%. Scheduled Castes make up 30.19% of the population.[11]
Hindus are in majority in Fatehabad district. Nearly the entire Muslim population of the district migrated to Pakistan during Partition.[citation needed]
2011 Census of India, 35.57% of the population spoke Hindi, 29.72% Punjabi, 20.81% Haryanvi and 11.56% Bagri as their first language.[18]
Hindi is the official language of the district with Bagri and Haryanvi are spoken by majority of the population. Punjabi is the additional official language.
All major towns and villages are provided piped drinking water facilities. Towns and villages located in fresh water areas are served by tubewell network. Others are served by canal based system.[9] (popularly called नहरी पानी)
^1941 figures are for Fatehabad Tehsil, which roughly matches present-day district borders. District was incorporated to take into account population increases during the post-independence era, which has resulted in various bifurcations of districts and tehsils across the historic Punjab Province region.
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