Ballia district

This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Ballia. For other uses, see Balia.
Ballia district
बलिया ज़िला
بلیا ضلع
District of Uttar Pradesh

Location of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh
Country India
State Uttar Pradesh
Administrative division Azamgarh
Headquarters Ballia
Government
 • Lok Sabha constituencies Ballia, Salempur and Ghosi (Lok Sabha constituency )
Area
 • Total 1,981 km2 (765 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • Total 3,223,642
 • Density 1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Demographics
 • Literacy 73.82 per cent
Website Official website

Ballia district (Hindi: बलिया ज़िला, Urdu: بلیا ضلع‎) is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Ballia district is a part of Azamgarh Division situated in eastern Part of Uttar Pradesh. Main occupation is agriculture. Ballia City is district headquarters and commercial Market of this district. There are six tehsils (talukas) in this district viz Ballia, Bansdih, Rasra, Bairiya, Sikandarpur, and Belthara. Rasra is second major commercial area of district, having one government sugar mill and one cotton weaving industry. Though Ballia's core occupation is agriculture but there are some small industries are existing. Maniar is known for its bindi (Indian ladies putting on their forehead) industry and major supplier.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Ballia district has a population of 3,223,642,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Mauritania[2] or the US state of Iowa.[3] This gives it a ranking of 108th in India (out of a total of 640).[1] The district has a population density of 1,081 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,800/sq mi) .[1] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 16.73%.[1] Ballia has a sex ratio of 933 females for every 1000 males,[1] and a literacy rate of 73.82%.[1]

Languages

Languages include Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Indo-Aryan language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.[4]

Bhojpuri is generally spoken by the commoners in the district but the upper-class people use Hindi or Urdu and even English to some extent.

Culture

Contribution of Ballia to Hindi Literature is immense as many prominent scholars hail from Ballia such as Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Bhairav Prasad Gupt and Amar Kant. Other notable persons belonging to the district are brother duo Baldev Upadhyaya, famous Sanskrit critic and Krishndev Upadhyaya, (Bhojpuri) scholar with works in Bhojpuri folk literature.[5] Ballia is surrounded by two major river Ganges and Ghaghra (Saryu) that make this land more fertile.

Ballia is also considered as a holy Hindu city. It has big and small temples. Bhrigu temple in Bhrigu Ashram is considered to be a famous temple where Bhrigu Muni was supposed to reside. Bhrigu muni is the one who according to Hindu Mythology hit Lord Vishnu on his chest. Behind Bhrigu Ashram earlier River Ganges used to flow. Famous Dadri Mela (fair) is still held annually in winter season and people from all around the Ballia and neighboring districts come here to visit it. It lasts about a month.Ballia is also famous for "Sonadih ka mela" which is held every year in month of April for 15 days.

Political aspects

Ballia had distinguished freedom fighters who fought against British and managed to finish the British Raj from Ballia for few days from 19 August 1942 Under leadership of Chittu Pandy and others.due to this region Ballia also known as baagi ballia.Ram Nagina Singh Ex-MP 1952 in ballia (Prajatantrik socialist party) Chandra shekhar Known as the 'Young Turk' became Prime Minister on Nov. 10,1990 and continued till June 21, 1991 (224 days).he is the 8th prime minister of the country. He was born and brought up in ballia and also Mp of ballia when he became the prime minister. he the longest serving Mp of the ballia.

Read more at: http://www.oneindia.com/2009/05/22/1947-2009-list-of-prime-ministers-of-india.html Mangal Pandey,the well known freedom fighter was also from this city and he was the 1st person to fire gun against English Govt.

Chittu Pandey, Murli Manohar, Tarkeshwar Pandey, Gauri Shankar Rai and hundreds of leaders fought for independence during that period .Murli Manohar,Tarkeshwar Pandey and Gauri Shankar Rai were members of Lok Sabha and are no more. Sri Gauri Shankar Rai was member of UP Assembly, UP Council and as Member of Indian Parliament, he also represented India in UN Gen Assembly and Addressed UN General Assembly in HINDI,for the first time in history of United Nations.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  2. ↑ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Retrieved 2011-10-01. Mauritania 3,281,634 July 2011 est.
  3. ↑ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-09-30. Iowa 3,046,355
  4. ↑ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Bhojpuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  5. ↑ The Eastern Anthropologist 4–6. 1950 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=qW8LAAAAIAAJ&q=krishna+dev+upadhyaya+bhojpuri&dq=krishna+dev+upadhyaya+bhojpuri&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JaliVYiRAtPnuQS95YFo&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBQ. Retrieved 25 May 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Coordinates: 28°12′00″N 79°22′00″E / 28.2°N 79.3667°E / 28.2; 79.3667

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