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Mankapur
Town
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Mankapur
Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 27°02′N82°14′E / 27.03°N 82.23°E / 27.03; 82.23
Country Flag of India.svg  India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Gonda
Government
  Body BJP
   MLA Ramapati Shastri
Elevation
1,000 m (3,000 ft)
Population
 (2011)
  Total9,461
Languages
  Official Hindi, Awadhi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
271302,271308
Telephone code05265
Vehicle registration UP-43

Mankapur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gonda district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is a constituency of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly currently headed by BJP. [1] It borders Gonda to the West, Rehra bazar to the North, Maskanwa to the East and Nawabganj to the South.

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Demographics

According to the 2001 India census, [2] Mankapur had a population of 8,865. Males constituted 54 percent of the population and females 46 percent. The city had an average literacy rate of 77 percent, which exceeded the national average of 67.5 percent. Male literacy was higher than female literacy, with 86 percent to 75 percent. 13 percent of the population was revealed to be under 6 years of age.[ citation needed ]

Languages

Languages spoken in Mankapur include Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region. [3]

History

Mankapur mandal was a Taluqedari (estate) formed when Raja Dutt Singh of Gonda, of the Bisen Rajput dynasty, seized the Bandhalgoti raj of Mankapur and gave it to his younger infant son, Kunwar Ajmat Singh around 1681, making him the first ruler of the state. The last ruler of this Taluqedari before independence was Raghavendra Pratap Singh, [4] who was a Congress politician (1933–1955) and who served in the UP assembly continuously since 1937.[ citation needed ]

The present head of the Mankapur Taluqedari, and the present ruler of Mankapur is former Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Minister Maharaja Anand Singh, father to current Member of Parliament from Gonda, Shri Kirti Vardhan Singh. Other immediate members of the royal family include:

The state had 189 villages under it and during the British Raj, it was a pargana in Utraula tehsil. [6] It became a separate tehsil in 1987, later in 1997 when the Gonda district was divided to create Balrampur district, it remained with its former district. [7]

Transport

Mankapur Junction railway station is the nearest railway station and the nearest airport is Ayodhya Airport (46.8 km). Mankapur is well connected by roadways to Gonda, Ayodhya and state capital of Lucknow.[ citation needed ]

Economy

Mankapur has one of the country's six largest manufacturing plants of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI). [8] Along with that major occupation of public is Agriculture. With good connectivity with other districts, Mankapur serves as a luring place for further industrial growth.[ citation needed ]

Geography

The famous Manwar River [9] passes through Mankapur, next to the Manwar Estate of the Mankapur Taluqedars. Unfortunately, the river is dying a slow death, so a cleaning program was initiated by Yogi Adityanath in order to rejuvenate the flow of river. [10] It is believed that Lord Dasrath performed Yagya at Makhoda Dham resulting in birth of Lord Rama. [11]

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References

  1. Mankapur (SC) Constituency of Uttar Pradesh Archived 3 July 2007 at archive.today Election Commission of India – State Elections 2002.
  2. "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  3. M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Awadhi: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  4. Mankapur - Genealogy and History Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Queensland University .
  5. Rathore, Abhinay (1939). "Mankapur (Taluk)". Rajput Provinces of India. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
  6. Utraula Tehsil The Imperial Gazetteer of India , 1908, v. 24, p. 287.
  7. History Gonda district Official website.
  8. ITI's description of Mankapur Plant Archived 11 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Indian Telephone Industries .
  9. "कभी राम के लिए दशरथ ने इस नदी के किनारे किया था यज्ञ, आज बन गई है नाला".
  10. "मनोरमा नदी की सफाई शुरू".
  11. "कभी राम के लिए दशरथ ने इस नदी के किनारे किया था यज्ञ, आज बन गई है नाला".