Bahawalpur Saddar Tehsil

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Bahawalpur Saddar Tehsil
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan
Region Flag of Punjab.svg   Punjab
District Bahawalpur
Capital Bahawalpur
Towns1
Union councils36
Population
 (2017) [1]
   Tehsil 574,950
   Urban
107,653
   Rural
467,297
Time zone UTC+5 (PST)

Bahawalpur Saddar is a tehsil located in Bahawalpur District in the Pakistani province of Punjab. The city of Bahawalpur is the headquarters of the tehsil which is administratively subdivided into 36 Union Councils. [2] The tehsil is traversed by the Hakra depression, south of which lies the desert. The north lies in the Sutlej riverain, and between this and the Hakra are the central uplands. [3]

History

Prior to the independence of Pakistan, Bahawalpur was the headquarters tehsil of the state and nizamat of Bahawalpur. The population, according to the 1901 of census, was 91,954, compared with 90,031 in 1891. The chief city Bahawalpur, also the capital of the State, had a population of 18,546. The tehsil contained 107 villages. The total land revenue and cesses between 1905 and 1906 was one hundred thousand. [3]

Saraiki is the most spoken language in Bahawalpur. Punjabi is also spoken by number of people.

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References

  1. "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: PUNJAB" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. "archive.ph". archive.ph. Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. 1 2 "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 6, page 204 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library". dsal.uchicago.edu.

This article incorporates text from the Imperial Gazetteer of India , a publication now in the public domain.