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Hamirpur District, Uttar Pradesh

Geography of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Hamirpur district lies between Lattitude 2507'N & 260 7' N. and Longitude 79017'E & 80021'E including Mahoba district. Hamirpur is bounded by districts Jalaun (Orai), Kanpur and Fatehpur in north, Banda in east, Mahoba in south and Districts of Jhansi and Jalaun on the West.

Area

According to the Central Statistical Organisation the district covers 4,121.9 sq. km.

Hills

In the south numerous outcrops of gneiss rocks, tending to cluster into low ranges. surrounded by uneven broken tracts and covered for the most part with stunted jungle are succeeded by a more level tract in which the hills grow sparser. Now approximately all hill area have come under newly created district-Mahobha.

Rivers

Yamuna : This river forms noth boundry of the district. The river first touches the district at the vilage Haraulipur in tehsil Hamirpur, where it forms a sudden loop. Flowing then east to Jamrehi Tir, it curves abruptly south to Sikrohi and then continues south-east part Hamirpur to Baragaon where the Betwa joins it.Its length in Hamirpur district is approximately 56 km. Betwa : This river flows along the north-western border of the District from the point where the Dhasan joins it to the village of Kuprat separating tehsil Rath from district Jalaun. It enters the district near the village of Beri and flows separating tehsils Rath and Maudaha from tehsil Hamirpur. Its length in Hamirpur district is approximately 65 km. Other rivers lying in the district are Dhasaan, Barma, Ken, Chndraval and Pandwaha. These rivers are used for irrigation purpose. A dam named Swami Bramhananad Dam (Moudaha Dam) has been constructed on the river Barma.
Hamirpur

Seismicity

No earthquake has been observed in the district during last 200 years. The district has, however experienced on a few occasions earthquakes originating in the Himalayan boundary fault zone., Moradabad fault and Narmada Tapti fault zones.

Climate

The Climate of the district is characterised by an intensely hot summer, a pleasant cold season . The summer season from March to about middle of June is followed by the south-west monsoon season from mid-June to the end of September. October and first half of November consititute the post-monsoon period. The cold season is from mid-November to February.

Temperature

May and the begining of June are generally the hottest period of the year and maximum temperature in May is about 43º C and minimum about 28ºC. The heat during the summer is intense.The maximum temperature on individual days sometimes reaches 45ºC or more. During Cold season minimum temperature sometimes drops down to about 2 or 3ºC.

Agriculture of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Land and Soil of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

The soils consist of the well known bundelkhand varieties, Mar, Kabar, Parua and Rakar. Mar is often called black cottor soil. Its varies greatly in colour. It contains small lumps of kankar. Kabar range from a rich dark black to light brown. Its chief characteristics is its extreme adhesiveness, which causes it to quickly dry and cake in to hard blocks. Parua is a light coloured sandy soil, found in many forms. It is usually less rich in organic matter, but its finer texture makes it more responsive to manure and irrigation. Raker is refuse soil which occurs on sloping ground, where the action of water has tended to denude the earth of all its better qualities.

Land Use Pattern

Category
Area in Heatare
Percentage Area
Total Reporting area
415948
100
Area under forest
23520
5.6
Non Agricultural Area
31094
7.4
Net Sown Area
324935
78.1

lrrigation in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Only 27.7% land are irrigated land in hamirpur. The distribution of area of land irrigated by different sources of irrigation are as under. Canals are the main source of irrigation and are constructed by the different rivers like Yamuna, Betwa, Dashan, Barma, Ken, Chandrawal and Pandwaha.

Sources
Area Irrigated (Hectare)
Percentage Area
Canal
24920
28.7
Tubewells
34049
39.2
Wells
22805
26.3
Ponds
539
0.6
Other Sources
4561
5.2
Total
93302
100.0

Roads and Railways in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh -

Hamirpur is situated on the National Highway 86 (NH 86) which is also called the Kanpur-Hamirpur-Sagar road. Kanpur is 67 km, Orai 85 km, Banda 95, Rath 76 km., Mahoba 85 km, but due to bad road conditions these distances can not be covered in less than 2 hours if travelling by roadways bus. Hamirpur is well connected to the outside world. No railway station is at Hamirpur Town. The nearest railway station is Hamirpur Road which is around 5–6 km from the city lacks conveyance and falls in Kanpur district. Other nearer railway station is Bharuwa Sumerpur which is 15 km from Hamirpur.

Culture of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Languages

Tongues spoken in Hamirpur include Bundeli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi (compared to 60% for German and English) and is spoken by about 7 800 000 people in Bundelkhand

Cuisine of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Places of interest in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

There are many places in Hamirpur district which have historical, cultural and religious importance. Some of them are as under :

Gram Khandey Temple - There is a very beautiful Temple in Gram Khandey.

Singh Maheshweri Temple

The temple of Lord Shiva-Parvati is situated on the bank of Yamuna river in the north, at Hamirpur headquarter. Historically this temple is supposed to be the heritage of Gupta period.

Chaura Devi Temple

This temple is constructed around the peepal tree as the idol of Goddess was dreamed to a devotee in the mid-night. After some time a beautiful park was also constructed at there.

Meher Temple

This temple was constructed by Parmeshweri Dayal Pukar, a devotee of avtar Mehar Baba in 1964 at Hamirpur headquarter. The idol of avtar Mehar Baba was placed in the temple on 18th nov. 1970.

City Forest

City forest was established by forest department, on the Hamipur-Kalpi road near about 2 kms from Hamirpur. This place is Very polpular as a picnic spot.

Gayatri Tapubhumi

This religious place is situated on Kanpur �Sagar road in Bharwa Sumerpur, 17 kms far from Hamirpur.

Bake Bihari Temple

In 1872, the temple was constructed by Pandit Dhani Ram on the birth anniversary of his nephew pragdutt. The temple is very polpular for its art in Bundelkhand.

Brahamanand Dham

After the inaugration by the contemporary chief minister of U.P. in 1999, this place came to be known as dham. In the memory of Swami brahamanand this dham was constructed in Barbara village of Sarila block.

Kalpa Vraksh

This tree is on the bank of yamuna river at Hamirpur. This is very old and rare in India.

Freedom Fighters in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

On the eve of the outbreak of 1857, the district was in the charge of T.K. Lloyd; while in the Civil Lines the military force consisted of a detachment of the 56th Native Infantry whose headquarters were at Kanpur.

Early in June, 1857 the villagers of Ramari manifested a yearning for freedom before the actual struggle of the outbreak on the 13th of June 1857. On that day the guard at the treasury revolted and made for the house of the collector, while some freedom fighters released the prisoners at the jail. The Europeans who could, escaped while others were killed. Lloyd (collector) and Grant (joint magistrate) hid themselves in some caster-oil fields and swam down with the current of the river to the junction of the Betwa and the Yamuna, 5 km. below the town of Hamirpur. Alhirs discovered Loyd's place of concealment and reported it to the freedom fighters who captured Llyod and Grant and escorted them back to the cutcherry compound, where they were shot.

Due to contribution of freedom fighters, Hamirpur had proud of being of independent during 13th June 1857 to 24th may 1858.

On the occasion of celebration of Silver Jubilee year of Independence in 1973, 323 persons of district, who had taken part in India's freedom struggle were granted tamra patras placing on record the part played by them in the country�s freedom struggle.

Prominent freedom fighters of the district

  • Swami Bramhanand
  • Diwan Shatrughan Singh
  • Rani Rajendra Kumari
  • Shripat Sahay Rawat (Shri Bhai)
  • Ram Gopal Gupta
  • Pt. Manni Lal Gurudev
  • Pt. Surendra Dutt Bajpai
  • Pt. Radhey Shyam Mishra

Crops in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

There are three harvests, the autumn or Kharif have usually known as siyari, and the spring or Rabi as Unhari. The Ziad or extra harvest is insignificabt in this area. Gram, Wheat, Barley, Peas, Arhar and Masoor are the main crops of Rabi. Jwar, Rice, Bajra, Urd, Moong and Moth are the main crops of Kharif. Melon, water-melon, bitter guard, pumpkin are the main crops of Zaid

Crop
Area Sown (Hectare)
Percentage Area
Gram
93974
26.5
Wheat
83658
23.6
Masoor
58208
16.4
Jwar
36657
10.3
Urd
23318
6.6
Pea
19558
5.5
Tilhan
15657
4.4
Arhar
12995
3.7
Others
10740
3.0

National Record 2012

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See the record in Limca Book of Records 2012 on Page No. 217