Hazara District was a district of Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It existed until 1976, when it was split into the districts of Abbottabad and Mansehra, with the new district of Haripur subsequently splitting off from Abbottabad, and Battagram and Torghar – from Mansehra.
History Hazara district was annexed by the British from its former Sikh rulers after the Second Anglo-Sikh War of 1848–1849. In 1853 the district came under the charge of General John Becher for six years - his biographer described the district as “the wildest” in the Punjab.
In the 1871 census of India the population of Hazara District (Huzara) was recorded as 367,218.Page 46 In the 1901 census of India the total population was recorded as 560,288 and in the 1911 census of India, the total population was recorded as 603,028pages 62 and 77 fifty years later in the 1961 census of Pakistan, the total population was recorded as 1,050,374 of which 535,078 were male and 515,296.1951 Census of Pakistan
Current status The Hazara District is now divided into Abbottabad, Mansehra and Haripur districts.
Geography The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the district as follows:
Demographics + Religious groups in Hazara District (North-West Frontier Province) during the British RajReligiousgroup1881189119011911192119311941 Islam 385,759 488,453 533,120 572,972 591,058 636,794 756,004 Hinduism 19,843 23,983 23,031 24,389 26,038 25,260 30,267 Sikhism 1,381 3,609 4,036 5,489 4,850 7,630 9,220 Christianity 90 236 101 178 403 432 737 Jainism 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 Zoroastrianism 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 Buddhism 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Judaism 0 0 0 0 0 0 Others 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total population 407,075 516,288 560,288 603,028 622,349 670,117 796,230
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