10 Facts About Sultanpur district

Sultanpur district is a district in the Awadh region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

At the time of the Ain-i-Akbari, the area now covered by Sultanpur district was divided between the sarkars of Awadh, Lucknow, and Jaunpur, all in the subah of Awadh, as well as the sarkar of Manikpur in the subah of Allahabad.

Sultanpur district itself was one of the mahals, or parganas, that made up the sarkar of Awadh; it corresponded to the later pargana of Miranpur, minus its southern portion which in Akbar's day formed part of the Kathot mahal in Manikpur.

The mahal of Sultanpur district provided a force of 7,000 infantry and 200 cavalry to the Mughal army and was assessed at a tax value of 3,832,530 dams.

Sultanpur district remained split between the two subahs of Awadh and Allahabad until the late 1700s, when the latter was finally broken up.

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Under this new arrangement, Sultanpur district was made the seat of a large nizamat with four component chaklas: Sultanpur district, Aldemau, Jagdishpur, and Pratapgarh.

Under the original British arrangement, Sultanpur district comprised 12 parganas, but this was changed in 1869: three parganas were transferred into the district from Faizabad, while five parganas were transferred out of the district.

The effect of this change is shown in the table below as "new boundaries" - it does not take account of Baldirai sub-Sultanpur district, which did not exist at the time of the 2011 census.

Languages spoken by the denizens of the Sultanpur district include Awadhi, a dialect in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.

Sultanpur district is divided into 19 police stations for the maintenance of law and order.