Firozpur district

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.

Demographics

According to the

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]

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

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 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%

Language

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

Politics

Administration

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

Notable people

• Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
• cardiologist
  , researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
• Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri
  award.
• 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.
• 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.

Notes

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