Mahmudabad, India

Mahmudabad
Mahmudabad
Town
	Mahmudabad Fort
	Nickname: Mahmoodabad
	Mahmudabad Location in Uttar Pradesh, United States Mahmudabad Mahmudabad (India)
	Coordinates: 27°18′N 81°07′E / 27.3°N 81.12°E
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Sitapur
Founded by	Mahmood Khan
Government
• MLA	Smt. Asha Maurya
Population (2011)
• Total	50,777
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Urdu
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	261203
Vehicle registration	UP-34
Sex ratio	50/50 ♂/♀
Website	up.gov.in mahmudabad.in

Mahmudabad, (or Mahmoodabad) also known as Mahmudabad Awadh is a town and a municipal board in Sitapur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Mahmudabad tehsil town is the main town in the mandal which has about 66 villages around, while the main city in the district is Sitapur which is about 70 km away and State Headquarter Lucknow is 52 km away. Mahmudabad is approachable by road from all the cities and towns of Uttar Pradesh, while Lucknow Airport situated about 60 km away is the nearest airport. Mahmudabad having a railway station, besides Munda Gopal Ash, Sidhauli and Ataria Railway stations are the nearest rail stations which are around 3 to 32 km distance, and some trains heading to Bihar from Delhi stop at these stations.

History

Mahmudabad Estate was one of the largest feudal estates in the erstwhile kingdom of Awadh. Mahmudabad is the part of Oudh State (अवध रियासत) during British India. Its raja, during the freedom struggle, had been an important member of the Muslim League and a close friend of Jinnah. In 1962, he migrated to Pakistan, leaving his young son and heir behind in Lucknow. The vast Mahmudabad properties in UP were then seized as "enemy property" under defence rules. When the old raja died in London in 1974, his son Raja Mohammad Amir Khan began a long legal battle to get back his inheritance. In a landmark judgement in Sep 2005, the Supreme Court of India directed the Government of India to release the Mahmudabad properties and restore them to the present raja. Raja Mohammad Amir Khan has two sisters who migrated to England with their spouses (also part of the Mahmudabad clan) and children.

Raja Mohammad Amir Khan has two sons Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who is a Professor of History and Political Science at Ashoka University and Amir Khan Mahmudabad.

The novel “The Vanishing Indian Upper Class:Life History of Reza Mohammed Khan” was written by Raja Mohammad Amir Khan’s cousin Rajkumar Mohammad Amir Kazim Khan. A critique on how the upper class of India has transformed since independence of India (4).

Demographics

Religions in Mahmudabad^[2]
Religion			Percent
Hindus			41.58%
Muslims			57.02%
Jains			1.02%
Others†			0.21%
Distribution of religions †Includes Sikhs (0.1%), Buddhists (<0.2%).

As of the 2001 Census of India^[update],^[3] Mahmudabad had a population of 41,911. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Mahmudabad has an average literacy rate of 49%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 54%, and female literacy is 43%. In Mahmudabad, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

sardar vallabh bhai patel kanya siksha sansthan
Prakash Vidya Mandir Inter College
BabuRam Savitri Devi Inter College Shekhpur
United Avadh Inter College
Adarsh Bal Vidya Mandir
Seth M.R. Jaipuria School, Mahmudabad Campus
Sardar Singh Convent Inter College
Sita Inter College
Maulana Azad Institute of Humanities Science and Technology
Jawahar Lal Nehru Polytechnic
Moulana Azad Law College
Seth Ram Gulam Inter and Degree College
Don Bosco High School
Calvin College Inter college
FAA Government Degree College Mahmudabad
I T I College
Mahmoodabad Law College
Mahmoodabad College of Management & Technology
Indian Institute of Computer Education
Universal Computer Education Centre
Krishna Institute of Computer Education
BANKING FACILITIES
State bank of India
Uco Bank
Allahabad Bank
Punjab National Bank
HDFC Bank
Oriental Bank of Commerce
Bank of India
Axis Bank
Allahabad UP Rural Bank

References

^ "Mahmoodabad MLA"
^ "Mahmudabad". Census 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
^ "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.

4. The Vanishing Indian Upper Class, https://anthempress.com/the-vanishing-indian-upper-class-hb

External links

Naqvi, Saba (13 March 2006). "Suleiman, After Vanvas". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 19 July 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
Contractor, Farzana Behram. "The Riyasat Of Raja Mehmoodabad". Retrieved 19 July 2013.
Zabeeh, Zia-ur-Rahman. "Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad". Retrieved 19 July 2013.

[1] "Mahmoodabad MLA"

[2] "Mahmudabad". Census 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

[3] "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.

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