| Voice of Jalaun : Parmath
About 95% population of the district are depended on agriculture.
However the experience of drought like situation has created lot
of trouble for the farmers.
Agriculture related occupation like animal husbandry etc is also
affected because of drought.
Drought has lead to less availability of safe and pure drinking
water. This has lead to many water born diseases in the district.
Jalaun District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 4565.0 Km2
Population in Jalaun (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,670,718
Male : 895,804
Female : 774,914
Under 6 population
Total : 219,378
Male : 116,378
Female : 102,700
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 39312
In seeing : 22779
In speech : 2896
In hearing : 1682
In movement : 9467
Mental : 2488
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 153
Sex Raio Rank : 39
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 228 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 298 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Jalaun District
JALAUN, a town and district of British India, in
the Allahabac division of the United Provinces. Pop. of town (1901),
8573 Formerly it was the residence of a Mahratta governor, but never
the headquarters of the district, which are at Orai.
The DISTRICT OF JALAUN has an area of 1477 sq.
m. It lies entirely within the level plain of Bundelkhand, north
of the hil country, and is almost surrounded by the Jumna and its
tribu taries the Betwa and Pahuj. The central region thus enclosec
is a dead level of cultivated land, a'most destitute of trees, ant
sparsely dotted with villages. The southern portion present almost
one unbroken sheet of cultivation. The boundary river form the only
interesting feature in Jalaun. The river Non flows through the centre
of the district, which it drains bj innumerable small ravines instead
of watering. Jalaun ha suffered much from the noxious kans grass,
owing to the sprea of which many villages have been abandoned and
their land thrown out of cultivation.
Pop. (1901), 399,726, showing ar increase of i
%. The two largest towns are Kunch (15,8* and Kalpi (10,139). The
district is traversed by the line of th Indian Midland railway from
Jhansi to Cawnpore. A small par of it is watered by the Betwa canal.
Grain, oil-seeds, cotto and ghi are exported. In early times Jalaun
seems to have been the home of two Rajput clans, the Chandels in
the east and the Kachwahas in he west. The town of Kalpi on the
Jumna was conquered for the jrinces of Ghor as early as 1196. Early
in the i4th century the Jundelas occupied the greater part of Jalaun,
and even succeeded n holding the fortified post of Kalpi. That important
possession svas soon recovered by the Mussulmans, and passed under
the way of the Mogul emperors.
Akbar's governors at Kalpi naintained a nominal
authority over the surrounding district; and the Bundela chiefs
were in a state of chronic revolt, which ulminated in the war of
independence under Chhatar Sal. On he outbreak of his rebellion
in 1671 he occupied a large province o the south of the Jumna. Setting
out from this basis, and .ssisted by the Mahrattas, he reduced the
whole of Bundelkhand. 3n his death he bequeathed one-third of his
dominions to his Vlahratta allies, who before long succeeded in
annexing the whole )f Bundelkhand. Under Mahratta rule the country
was a prey ;o constant anarchy and intestine strife. To this period
must )e traced the origin of the poverty and desolation which are
still conspicuous throughout the district. In 1806 Kalpi was made
over to the British, and in 1840, on the death of Nana Gobind ias,
his possessions lapsed to them also. Various interchanges of territory
took place, and in 1856 the present boundaries were substantially
settled. Jalaun had a bad reputation during the Mutiny. When the
news of the rising at Cawnpore reached K.alpi, the men of the 53rd
native infantry deserted their officers, and in June the Jhansi
mutineers reached the district, and began their murder of Europeans.
The inhabitants everywhere revelled in the licence of plunder and
murder which the Mutiny lad spread through all Bundelkhand, and
it was not till Septem-Der 1858 that the rebels were finally defeated.
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