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Sanghar District

Sanghar District (Sindhi: ضلعو سانگھڙ, Urdu: ضلع سانگھڑ) is one of the largest districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. This district lies between 25058'13 N latitudes and 69024'4E longitudes. It was a village before Mallah tribe were settled there. This district has the largest Mallah population. It has an area of 9874 square kilometres. It is located in the centre of Sindh and is bounded to the east by India. The district capital, Sanghar, is itself a small city roughly 35 miles (56 km) east-south-east of the city of Nawabshah and the same distance north of Mirpur Khas. Its primary industry is agriculture.

Largest tribe of Sanghar district is Mallah who has the population of almost 350000 people. Other tribes are: Jakhro, Jam, Rajput, Jat, Hingora, Wassan, Mirani, Mirbahar, Dhareja, Unar, Siyal, Nizamani, Chandio, Rind, Leghari, Arain, Muhajir, Nareja.

The following cities are located in Sanghar District: Sanghar, Tando Adam, Jam Nawaz Ali, Shahdadpur, Shahpur Chakar, Sinjhoro, Jhol, and Sarhari among others.

Sanghar District is also known as the district of Hur Mujhaids, who are followers of Muslim saint Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II. They also fought against British government under the command of Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi.

Administrative subdivisions

The district of Sanghar is administratively subdivided into 6 tehsils:[2]

District Council Sanghar has 70 Union councils, 4 Municipal Committees and 11 Town Committees.[3]

History

The town of Sanghar, the district headquarters, was formerly a small village that has been populated since the 18th century.[citation needed] It was named after a pious fisher-woman, Mai Singhar but there is no evidence about entity of such woman,whereas, as per Dr nabi bux its name came from saang means overflow of water[citation needed]; for more than a century, it remained a small village with a population of few hundreds[citation needed].

After the 1853 invasion by Charles Napier, Sindh was divided into provinces and was assigned zamindars, also known as "Wadera", to collect taxes for the British. Sindh was later made part of British India's Bombay Presidency, and became a separate province in 1935. During this period Sanghar obtained the status of Taluka, a subdivision, and was alternatively included in districts of Nawabshah and Tharparkar. In 1954 it was given the status of District-Headquarters.

The people of the district, specifically the Hurs, played a vital role in independence of Pakistan. The Hurs were an organised military rebel group led by Pir Syed Sabghatullah Shah Pagaro Shaheed, popularly known as Pir Pagara, that sought independence from the British Raj. They fought a guerrilla warfare campaign against the British military, and were always a thorn in the side of British Raj. It has been said that this warfare was one of the major nails in the coffin of British Raj in India.[citation needed]

According to legend, the bodies of Sohni Mahiwal, the titular heroes of one of the four popular tragic romances of Sindh, were recovered from the Indus River near Shahdadpur city and are buried there[citation needed]. The Tomb of Sohni is situated in Shahdadpur, which is 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Sanghar and 75 kilometres (47 mi) from Hyderabad.

Places

Demographics

At the time of the 2017 census, Sanghar had a sex ratio of 935 females per 1000 males and a literacy rate of 41.40%: 52.72% for males and 29.32% for females. 571,719 (27.89%) lived in urban areas. 639,845 (31.21%) were under 10 years of age.[5] In 2023, the district had 407,265 households and a population of 2,308,465.[1]

The majority religion is Islam, with 74.95% of the population. Hinduism (including those from Scheduled Castes) is 24.47% of the population.[7]

Languages of Sanghar district (2023) [8]

  Sindhi (76.13%)
  Urdu (8.69%)
  Punjabi (5.38%)
  Balochi (2.05%)
  Hindko (1.57%)
  Saraiki (1.43%)
  Brahui (1.41%)
  Others (3.33%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 76.13% of the population spoke Sindhi, 8.69% Urdu, 5.38% Punjabi, 2.05% Balochi, 1.57% Hindko, 1.22% Saraiki and 1.19% Brahui as their first language.[9]

Tando Adam is the most populous city of the district.

The total area of the district is 10,728 km2. The population of other major cities and towns is presented in the following Table.

List of dehs

The following is a list of Sanghar District's dehs, organised by taluka:[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "TABLE 1 : HOUSEHOLDS, POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2023.
  2. ^ District Government – Sanghar Archived 2007-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Sanghar Local Government Election 2015 Result". www.electionpakistani.com. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  4. ^ "Population by administrative units 1951-1998" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  5. ^ a b "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2017)". www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  6. ^ "CENSUS OF INDIA, 1941 VOLUME XII SINDH PROVINCE" (PDF).
  7. ^ a b "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
  8. ^ a b "District Wise Results / Tables (Census - 2023)" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. Cite error: The named reference "2023 census" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ "Pakistan Census 2023" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Sanghar (District, Sindh, Pakistan) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  11. ^ "List of Dehs in Sindh" (PDF). Sindh Zameen. Retrieved 22 March 2021.

Bibliography

External links

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  1. ^ Shahdadpur and Sinjhoro taluks of Nawabshah District and Sanghar and Khipro taluks of Tharparkar District
  2. ^ Including Jainism, Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Ad-Dharmis, or not stated