Tambaur Ahmadabad

Tambaur Ahmadabad तम्बौर-अहमदाबाद
Town
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Sitapur
Population (2001)
• Total	19,683
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Tambaur Ahmadabad is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sitapur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located approximately 67 kilometer to the East of Sitapur town. It is well connected with headquarters of Sitapur district by a two-lane Major District Road (MDR) 19C which has recently been widened to accommodate increased traffic.

Geography

The town is located only two kilometers to the West of river Sharda which meets river Ghaghra two kilometers further south near Mallapur village. The topography in and around the town is flat. The climate of this place identical to Middle Ganga Plain. This places experiences mainly four seasons a year - Winter (November - January), Spring (February - March), Summer (April - June), Monsoon or rainy season (July to September).

History

The town was founded by a Tambolis (Pan or Beetle leaf sellers) some more than 800–900 years ago. The place exited a small village even during the invasion of Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud in early part of 11th century. During the raid, one of his faithful soldiers, Burhan-ud-din, was killed near this village. He constructed a tomb or dargah for him which still exists.

In the days of Jai Chand, king of Kannauj, a Chandel chieftain, Alha by name, was granted the lands which were afterwards formed into the Tambaur pargana, with Tambaur as it main metropolis. Alha gave this town to one of his lieutenants, Ranua Pasi, who built a fort in it. Soon after, both master and man were slain in battle fighting under the banners of Jai Chand against Prithviraj Chauhan, king of Delhi. But the Pasi's descendants remained in possession for some time, in fact for 330 years, until dispossessed by Mughal king of Delhi, Akbar.

Demographics

The Tambaur-cum-Ahamdabad Nagar Panchayat has population of 26,052 of which 13,641 are males while 12,411 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.^[1] Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 5077 which is 19.49% of total population of the town. Female Sex Ratio is of 910 against state average of 912. Literacy rate of Tambaur-cum-Ahamdabad is 51.52% lower than state (Uttar Pradesh) average of 67.68%. Male literacy is around 57.20% while female literacy rate is 45.18%.

Religion in Tambaur-Ahmedabad
Religion			Percent
Hindus			21.83%
Muslims			77.45%
Christians			0.35%

References

↑ "Tambaur-cum-Ahamdabad City Population Census 2011 - Uttar Pradesh". www.census2011.co.in. Retrieved 2016-01-27.

Cities and towns in Sitapur district

Sitapur	Biswan Hargaon Khairabad Laharpur Mahmudabad Maholi Misrikh Neemsar Paintepur Sidhauli Sitapur Tambaur Ahmadabad

Other districts	Agra Aligarh Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Amethi Amroha Auraiya Azamgarh Badaun Bagpat Bahraich Ballia Balrampur Banda Barabanki Bareilly Basti Bhimnagar Bijnor Bulandshahr Chandauli Chitrakoot Deoria Etah Etawah Faizabad Farrukhabad Fatehpur Firozabad Gautam Buddha Nagar Ghaziabad Ghazipur Gonda Gorakhpur Hamirpur Hardoi Hathras Jalaun Jaunpur Jhansi Kannauj Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Kanshi Ram Nagar Kaushambi Kushinagar Lakhimpur Kheri Lalitpur Lucknow Maharajganj Mahoba Mainpuri Mathura Mau Meerut Mirzapur Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Panchsheel Nagar Pilibhit Prabuddhanagar Pratapgarh Raebareli Rampur Saharanpur Sant Kabir Nagar Sant Ravidas Nagar Shahjahanpur Shravasti Siddharthnagar Sonbhadra Sultanpur Unnao Varanasi

Coordinates: 9°13′00″N 1°51′00″W / 9.2167°N 1.8500°W / 9.2167; -1.8500

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