Sultanpur district is adistrict in theAwadh region of the Indian state ofUttar Pradesh. This district is a part ofAyodhya division of the state. The administrative headquarters of the district isSultanpur city. The total area of Sultanpur district is 2672.89 Sq. km.^[3]

Sultanpur district
District ofUttar Pradesh
House inSultanpur
Location of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh
Coordinates (Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh):26°15′N82°00′E / 26.250°N 82.000°E /26.250; 82.000
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Division	Ayodhya
Headquarters	Sultanpur
Tehsils	Lambhua,Kadipur,Sultanpur,Jaisinghpur,Baldirai
Government
• District Magistrate	Kumar Harsh (IAS)[1]
• Lok Sabha constituencies	Sultanpur
• Vidhan Sabha constituencies	5
Area
• Total	2,672.89 km2 (1,032.01 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	2,249,036
• Density	840/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
• Urban	146,892
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	UP-44
Website	sultanpur.nic.in

As of 2011, Sultanpur district has a population of 2,249,036 people.^[2]

At the time of theAin-i-Akbari, the area now covered by Sultanpur district was divided between thesarkars ofAwadh,Lucknow, andJaunpur, all in thesubah of Awadh, as well as the sarkar ofManikpur in the subah ofAllahabad.^[4] Sultanpur itself was one of themahals, orparganas, that made up the sarkar of Awadh; it corresponded to the later pargana ofMiranpur, minus its southern portion which in Akbar's day formed part of theKathot mahal in Manikpur.^[4] It may have also included some of the later pargana ofBaraunsa, which was also called Sultanpur-Baraunsa.^[4] The mahal of Sultanpur provided a force of 7,000 infantry and 200 cavalry to the Mughal army and was assessed at a tax value of 3,832,530dams.^[4] The rest of Baraunsa then belonged to the small mahal ofBilahri, which supplied a military force of 2,000 infantry and 50 cavalry and was assessed at 815,831 dams.^[4] Like Sultanpur, the mahal of Bilahri was held by the Bachgotis and had a brick fort at its capital.^[4] The two mahals ofKishni andSathin (or Satanpur) were also in the sarkar of Awadh; they remained separate entities until 1750, when they were amalgamated into the pargana ofJagdishpur.^[4] The last of the mahals in the sarkar of Awadh was Thana Bhadaon, a small mahal which appears to correspond with the later pargana ofAsal.^[4] There is still a village calledBhadaon in this area; it used to give its name to atappa in pargana Sultanpur.^[4]

Two mahals in the Lucknow sarkar would later form part of Sultanpur district:Amethi andIsauli.^[4] Amethi was later transferred into the sarkar of Manikpur.^[4] In Akbar's time, Manikpur also had two mahals in the present district:Jais, which was broken up beginning sometime before 1775, and Kathot, which as mentioned above covered the southern parts of pargana Miranpur.^[4] Finally, there were two more mahals in the sarkar of Jaunpur:Chanda andAldemau.^[4]

Sultanpur district remained split between the two subahs of Awadh and Allahabad until the late 1700s, when the latter was finally broken up.^[4] By this time, the entire district had come under theNawabs of Awadh.^[4] NawabSaadat Ali Khan II enacted an administrative reform that replaced the subahs and sarkars with new divisions, callednizamats andchaklas.^[4] Under this new arrangement, Sultanpur was made the seat of a large nizamat with four component chaklas: Sultanpur, Aldemau, Jagdishpur, andPratapgarh.^[4] The last of these corresponds with the present-dayPratapgarh district.^[4]

From 1793 to 1856, 27nizams held office in Sultanpur, although several of them held office twice or were only in office for a very short time.^[4] Among the more significant nizams were Sital Parshad (in office 1794–1800), Mir Ghulam Hussain (1812–14 and 1818–23), Raja Darshan Singh (1828–34 and 1837–38) and his son Raja Man Singh (1845–47), and Agha Ali Khan (the final nazim, in office from 1850 to 1856).^[4] The nizams themselves were fairly powerless to deal with the district's powerful landowners, whose power had become so entrenched that they could get away with merely paying the ordinary revenue demands and otherwise being left alone to do as they pleased.^[4]

After the British annexation of Awadh in 1856, Sultanpur remained the seat of a district, although the administrative boundaries in the region were redrawn — Aldemau, for example, now formed part ofFaizabad district.^[4] 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.^[4] The new parganas were Isauli, Baraunsa, and Aldemau; while the ones that were removed wereSubeha (which was transferred intoBarabanki district),Inhauna, Rokha-Jais,Simrauta, andMohanganj (which were all transferred intoRaebareli district).^[4] The resulting setup would remain in place through the 20th century, with fourtehsils: Sultanpur (including the parganas of Miranpur and Baraunsa), Amethi (including Amethi and Asal),Musafirkhana (including Musafirkhana, Isauli, Jagdishpur, andGaura Jamun), andKadipur (including Chanda and Aldemau).^[4]

Sultanpur district (after bifurcation) had a population of 2,249,036. 6.53% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes made up 481,735 (21.42%) of the population.^[6]

The 2011 Indian census used the old district boundaries, where Sultanpur district consisted of Amethi, Gauriganj, Jaisinghpur, Kadipur, Lambhua, Musafirkhana, and Sultanpur sub-districts (tehsils). WhenAmethi district was created, Amethi, Gauriganj, and Musafirkhana sub-districts were moved to Amethi district. The effect of this change is shown in the table below as "new boundaries" - it does not take account of Baldirai sub-district, which did not exist at the time of the 2011 census.^[7]

Hindi is the official language of the district withUrdu as additional official language.^[9] The language spoken by the denizens of the district isAwadhi, a dialect in theHindicontinuum spoken by over 38 million people in theAwadh region.^[10]

At the time of the2011 Census of India, 70.03% of the population in the district spokeHindi, 25.38%Awadhi and 4.35%Urdu as their first language.^[8]

Sultanpur has a majority-Hindu population. Muslims are more concentrated in urban areas.^[11]

After its bifurcation in 2010, the Sultanpur district has fivetehsils which includes Sultanpur Sadar,Kadipur,Lambhua,Baldirai andJaisinghpur.^[12] TheAmethi,Musafirkhana, and Gauriganj tehsils form part of the Amethi district, which was formed on 1 July 2010.^[7] District has one municipality, four town areas and 14 developmentblocks.^[13] Besides Sultanpur city, important towns areDostpur,Kadipur,Koeripur,Lambhua. Sultanpur is divided into 19 police stations for the maintenance of law and order.^[14]

The subdivisions of Sultanpur district are:

• Baldirai tehsil
  • Baldirai block
  • Dhanpatganj block
• Sultanpur Sadar tehsil
  • Kurebhar block (part)
  • Kurwar block
  • Dubeypur block
• Jaisinghpur tehsil
  • Jaisinghpur block
  • Motigarpur block
  • Bhadaiya block
  • Kurebhar block (part)
  • Dostpur block (part)
• Lambhua tehsil
  • Lambhua block
  • Pratappur Kamaicha block
• Kadipur tehsil
  • Dostpur block (part)
  • Kadipur block
  • Akhand Nagar block
  • Karaundi Kala block

The district has municipalities for one city and four towns.^[15]

1. Nagar Palika Parishad, Sultanpur (Sultanpur city)

2. Nagar Panchayat, Lambhua

3. Nagar Panchayat, Dostpur

4. Nagar Panchayat, Kadipur

5. Nagar Panchayat, Koiripur

There are total 1727 villages in the 5 tehsils of Sultanpur district.^[16]

• Shukul Bazar^[17]

• Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology
• Government Polytechnic Kenaura Sultanpur^[18]

• Prem Adib, actor from Sultanpur city
• Sripati Mishra, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• Kumar Kartikeya, Indian Cricketer, plays forMumbai Indians inIPL since 2022
• Ajmal Sultanpuri, Urdu poet native of Harakhpur village
• Majrooh Sultanpuri, Urdu poet and lyricist in India'sHindi language film industry
• Sanjay Singh, politician and former Rajya Sabha member
• D. P. Tripathi, politician and former general secretary of theNationalist Congress Party, from Sultanpur city

• Ayodhya district
• Jaunpur district