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{{About|the district|its eponymous headquarters|Datia}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Datia district
| settlement_type = [[List of districts of Madhya Pradesh|District]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| total_type = Total
| native_name = 
| image_skyline = BIRSINGH DEO Palace, Datia, Madhya Pradesh.jpg
| image_caption = Palace of Bir Singh Deo
| image_map = MP Datia district map.svg
| map_caption = Location of Datia district in Madhya Pradesh
| coordinates = {{coord|25|40|N|78|27|E|region:IN-MP_type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-nowiki|display=title}}
| coor_pinpoint = Datia
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Madhya Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Administrative divisions of India|Division]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Gwalior division]]
| established_title = Established
| established_date =
| seat_type = Headquarters
| seat = [[Datia]]
| parts_type = [[Tehsils of India|Tehsils]]
| parts_style = para
| p1 = [[Datia]], [[Seondha]], [[Bhander]], [[Indergarh]] and [[Badoni]]
| area_total_km2 = 2902
| area_footnotes =
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_total = 786,754
| population_footnotes =
| population_urban = 181976
| population_density_km2 = auto
| demographics_type1 = Demographics
| demographics1_title1 = [[Literacy in India|Literacy]]
| demographics1_info1 = 72.63 per cent
| demographics1_title2 = Sex ratio
| demographics1_info2 = 873
| leader_title = [[District collector|Collector]] & [[District Magistrate]]
| leader_name = Mr.Sanjay Kumar [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]
| leader_title1 = [[Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha constituencies]]
| leader_name1 = [[Bhind-Datia lok sabha constituency]]
| leader_title2 = [[Vidhan Sabha|Vidhan Sabha constituencies]]
| leader_name2 = [[Datia]] [[Seondha]] and [[Bhander]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +05:30
| registration_plate = MP 32
| blank_name_sec1 = [[Indian road network|Major highways]]
| blank_info_sec1 = [[National Highway 44 (India)|NH44]]
| blank_name_sec2 =
| blank_info_sec2 =
| website = {{URL|https://datia.nic.in/en/}}
| official_name =
}}
'''Datia District''' is in [[Gwalior Division]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]]. The town of [[Datia]] is its district headquarters.

==History==
It is an ancient town, mentioned in the [[Mahabharata]]. Sahadeva; one of the Pandava brothers had won this kingdom from King Dantavakra. [[Datia]] had formerly been a state in the [[bundelkhand]] region. The ruling family were Rajputs of the Bundela clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of Orchha. The chief rulers of Datia were Bhagwan Rao, Shubhkaran Rao, Dalpat Rao and Ramchandra and they had good relations with the Mughals. There is a fort palace at Datia, the architecture of which is chiefly Indo-Islamic which partly inspired the chief architect Edward Lutyens, while designing New Delhi. The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand agency of Central India. It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near Gwalior, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon the United Provinces.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Datia|volume=7|pages=845-846}}</ref> It was second highest in the rank of all the Bundela states after Orchha, with a 15-gun salute, and its Maharajas bore the hereditary title of Second of the Princes of Bundelkhand. The land area of the state was 2130 km² and its population in 1901 was 173,759.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state of Madhya Pradesh within the Union of India.

==Geography==
In 2011, Datia had population of 786,754 of which male and female were 420,157 and 366,597 respectively
The district has an area of 2,691 km<sup>2</sup>, and a population 627,818 (2001 census). The population of Datia District increased by 26% from 1981 to 1991, and by 22% from 1991 to 2001. The district has 445 villages and 4 towns, Datia, [[Seondha]], [[Bhander]] and [[Indergarh]]. Each town is the headquarters of its [[tehsil]].<ref name=Datia>{{cite web|url = http://datia.nic.in|title= Datia district| publisher= District Administration |access-date = 2010-04-14 }}</ref>

Datia is bounded by the Madhya Pradesh districts of [[Bhind District|Bhind]] to the north, [[Gwalior District|Gwalior]] to the west, and [[Shivpuri District|Shivpuri]] to the south, and by [[Jhansi district|Jhansi District]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]] state to the east. The district is part of [[Gwalior Division]].<ref name=Datia/>

==Demographics==

===Population===
[[File:Datia District Court.jpg|thumb|right|District Court at RamNagar]]
According to the [[2011 census of India|2011 census]] Datia District has a [[Demographics of India|population]] of 786,754<ref name=districtcensus>{{cite web | url = http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php | title = District Census 2011 | access-date = 2011-09-30 | year = 2011 | publisher = Census2011.co.in}}</ref> roughly equal to the nation of [[Comoros]]<ref name="cia">{{cite web | author = US Directorate of Intelligence | title = Country Comparison:Population | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | access-date = 2011-10-01 | quote = Comoros 794,683 July 2011 est.
}}</ref> or the US state of [[South Dakota]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php
|title=2010 Resident Population Data
|publisher=U. S. Census Bureau
|access-date=2011-09-30
|quote=South Dakota 814,180
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019160532/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php
|archive-date=2013-10-19
}}</ref> This gives it a ranking of 487th in India (out of a total of [[Districts of India|640]]).<ref name=districtcensus/> The district has a population density of {{convert| 271 |PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}}<ref name=districtcensus/> with 76% living in rural regions and 24% living in urban areas. Its [[Family planning in India|population growth rate]] over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.4%.<ref name=districtcensus/> Datia has a [[sex ratio]] of 873 [[Women in India|females]] for every 1000 males,<ref name=districtcensus/> and a [[Literacy in India|literacy rate]] of 72.63%.<ref name=districtcensus/>

===Languages===
At the time of the [[2011 Census of India]], 99.27% of the population in the district spoke [[Hindi]] as their first language.<ref>[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html 2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue]</ref>

Main spoken languages are [[Khadiboli]] and [[Bundeli]] with [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] spoken by at least 200 000 members of the [[Bharia people|Bharia]] [[Scheduled tribe|tribe]] and this is written in the [[Devanagari script]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | editor = M. Paul Lewis | encyclopedia = Ethnologue: Languages of the World | title = Bharia: A language of India| url = http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bha | access-date = 2011-09-28 | edition = 16th | year = 2009 | publisher = SIL International | location = Dallas, Texas}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Datia State]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Datia district
|North =
|Northeast = [[Bhind district]]
|East =
|Southeast = [[Jhansi district]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]
|South =
|Southwest = [[Shivpuri district]]
|West =
|Northwest = [[Gwalior district]]
}}

{{Districts of Madhya Pradesh}}
{{Gwalior Division}}
{{Authority control}}

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Datia district - Revision history

BP Writer at 20:18, 19 January 2026

>Rodw: Disambiguated: Collector → District collector, IAS → Indian Administrative Service