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Etymology

The city and district is named after a sikh figure Tek Singh. Legend has it that Tek Singh, a kind-hearted man served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travelers passing by a small pond (Toba in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name.[3] There is also a park here named after Singh.[5]

History

British Raj

Toba Tek Singh was developed by the British toward the end of the 19th Century when a canal system was built. People from all over the Punjab (from the current Pakistani and Indian Punjab) moved there as farmlands were allotted to them. Most of the people who migrated there belonged to Lahore, Jalandhar ,Hoshiarpur and Sialkot districts.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India described the tehsil of Toba Tek Singh as follows:

Tehsil of the new Lyallpur District, Punjab, lying between 30°50′ and 31°23′ N. and 72° 20′ and 72°54′ E., with an area of 865 square miles (2,240 km2). The population in 1906 was 148,984. It contains 342 villages, including Toba Tek Singh (population, 1,874), the headquarters, and Gojra (2,589), an important grain market on the Wazirabad–Khanewal branch of the North-Western Railway. The land revenue in 1905-6 amounted to Rupees 470,000. The tehsil consists of a level plain, wholly irrigated by the Chenab Canal. The soil, which is very fertile in the east of the tehsil, becomes sandy towards the west. The boundaries of the tehsil were somewhat modified at the time of the formation of the new District of Faisalabad (formerly called Lyallpur).[6]

The predominantly Muslim population supported Muslim League and Pakistan Movement. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the minority Hindus and Sikhs migrated to India while the Muslim refugees from eastern Punjab settled in the Toba Tek Singh District.

After independence

The present Toba Tek Singh district was a Tehsil of Lyallpur District which was given the status of a district by the Punjab government in 1982 and Gojra and Kamalia became new Tehsils. In 2013 Pir Mahal was also given the status of Tehsil.

After the creation of Pakistan, when many Pakistani cities were renamed to names more acceptable to the local population, Toba Tek Singh was one of the few cities that retained its original name.

Kisan conference 1970

In Toba Tek Singh, the left parties held a farmers’ conference on 23–25 March 1970, which was led by Maulana Bhashani. In this historic farmers’ conference, 200,000 farmers and progressives from across the country gathered at the Toba Tek Sangh. This conference had a great impact on the political history of Pakistan. The farmers’ conference made Toba Tek Singh famous in the country. Toba Tek Singh was chosen to host the farmers’ conference because it was not only an important agricultural area but also had left-wing ideological leaders present before the partition of India.[7]

Demography

Toba Tek Singh is located in center of Punjab and occupies 3252 square kilometers and is made up of large areas of lowlands that flood frequently during the rainy season; the floods originate from the Ravi River that runs along the southern and southeastern borders. During the British Raj, Toba Tek Singh had a sizeable Hindu and Sikh population, much of which migrated to India after the partition in 1947, while many Muslim refugees from present-day India settled in the Toba Tek Singh District.[4]

Graveyard on the top of Wanger Wala Tibba

Population

[8]

As of the 2023 census, Toba Tek Singh district has 393,896 households and a population of 2,524,044. The district has a sex ratio of 105.49 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 71.38%: 76.37% for males and 66.13% for females.[1][9] 621,491 (24.62% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age.[10] 563,525 (22.33%) live in urban areas.[1]

Religion

The exterior of Catholic Church, Toba Tek Singh
[11] Religion Percent Islam
 
96.68% Christianity
 
3.22% Other
 
0.1%
Religion in contemporary Toba Tek Singh District
Religious
group		 1941[12] 2017[13] 2023[11]
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Islam 271,144 68.40% 2,122,084 96.83% 2,440,350 96.68%
Hinduism 55,575 14.02% 123 0.01% 279 0.01%
Sikhism 53,233 13.43% N/a N/a 19 ~0%
Christianity 16,353 4.13% 66,839 3.05% 81,259 3.22%
Ahmadi N/a N/a 2,419 0.11% 1,980 0.08%
Others 100 0.02% 30 ~0% 157 0.01%
Total Population 396,405 100% 2,191,495 100% 2,524,044 100%
Note: 1941 census data is for Toba Tek Singh tehsil of erstwhile Lyallpur district, which roughly corresponds to contemporary Toba Tek Singh District. District and tehsil borders have changed since 1941.

Language

[14]
  1. Punjabi (96.2%)
  2. Urdu (2.48%)
  3. Others (1.32%)

At the time of the 2023 census, 96.20% of the population spoke Punjabi and 2.48% Urdu as their first language.[14]

Economy

As per University of Agriculture, Faisalabad research, after Karachi, Toba Tek Singh is the second hub of poultry products in Pakistan.

Agriculture

Toba Tek Singh District is one of the best producers of oranges, locally known as Kinnow. It contributes towards export standard quality of oranges and have a major role in the export of oranges from Pakistan.[15][16] The majority of people living in this district work in agriculture and the region produces several kinds of agricultural and dairy products, including meat, eggs, cotton, maize, several pulses, peaches, guava, tomato, melon, water melon, mangoes, tobacco, onion.[17]

Administration

The district of Toba Tek Singh is administratively subdivided into four tehsils and 144 Union Councils.

Tehsil[18] Area

(km²)[19]

 Pop.

(2023)

 Density

(ppl/km²)

(2023)

 Literacy rate

(2023)[20]

 Union Councils
Gojra[4] 851 755,579 887.87 74.22% 43
Kamalia[4] 486 422,477 869.29 63.55% 25
Pirmahal 774 496,636 641.65 68.39% 29
Toba Tek Singh[4] 1,141 849,352 744.39 74.45% 47

As per the General election 2024, the district is represented in the National Assembly by three elected MNAs who represent the following constituencies:[21][22]

Constituency MNA Party
NA-105 Usama Hamza Independent
NA-106 Muhammad Junaid Anwar Pakistan Muslim League (N)
NA-107 Riaz Fatyana Independent

As per the Punjab general election 2024, the district is represented in the provincial assembly by six elected MPAs who represent the following constituencies:

Constituency MPA Party
PP-119 Asad Zaman Independent
PP-120 Muhammad Ahsan Ihsan Independent
PP-121 Amjad Ali Javed Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PP-122 Muhammad Ayub Khan Gadhi Pakistan Muslim League (N)
PP-123 Ashifa Riaz Fatyana Independent
PP-124 Sonia Ali Shah Independent

Major cities and towns in Toba Tek Singh district are :

Notable people

References

  1. 1 2 3 “7th Population and Housing Census – Detailed Results: Table 1” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  2. ↑ “Literacy rate, enrolments, and out-of-school population by sex and rural/urban, CENSUS-2023” (PDF).
  3. 1 2 “Toba Tek Singh District”. District Government Toba Tek Singh website. 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 24 March 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 “Toba Tek Singh District profile”. Government of Punjab website. 30 August 2003. Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Muhammad Hassan Miraj (10 June 2013). “The story of Toba Tek Singh (For whom the bell tolls)”. Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  6. ↑ Toba Tek Singh – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 406 Digital South Asia Library website, Retrieved 1 June 2021
  7. ↑ “Historic Toba Tek Singh Kisan Conference”. The Friday Times. 5 February 2021.
  8. ↑ “Population by administrative units 1951-1998” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  9. ↑ “7th Population and Housing Census – Detailed Results: Table 12” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  10. ↑ “7th Population and Housing Census – Detailed Results: Table 5” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  11. 1 2 “Pakistan Census 2023 Table 9: Punjab” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  12. ↑ India Census Commissioner (1941). “Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab”. p. 42. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215541. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  13. ↑ “District And Tehsil Level Population Summary With Region Breakup” (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Government of Pakistan website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  14. 1 2 “Pakistan Census 2023 Table 11: Punjab” (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
  15. ↑ University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh – Overview).Retrieved 1 June 2021
  16. ↑ TOBA TEK SINGH: Citrus plants to be grown in 30 orchards Dawn (newspaper), Published 30 January 2004, Retrieved 1 June 2021
  17. ↑ Agriculture (Flora and Fauna) of District Toba Tek Singh District Toba Tek Singh, Government of the Punjab website, Retrieved 17 May 2023
  18. ↑ Divisions/Districts of Pakistan Archived 2006-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Note: Although divisions as an administrative structure has been abolished, the election commission of Pakistan still groups districts under the division names
  19. ↑ “TABLE 1 : AREA, POPULATION BY SEX, SEX RATIO, POPULATION DENSITY, URBAN POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD SIZE AND ANNUAL GROWTH RATE, CENSUS-2023, PUNJAB” (PDF).
  20. ↑ “LITERACY RATE, ENROLMENT AND OUT OF SCHOOL POPULATION BY GENDER AND RURAL/URBAN, CENSUS-2023” (PDF).
  21. ↑ “Legislators from Toba Tek Singh – Provincial Assembly of Punjab”. Provincial Assembly of Punjab website. Archived from the original on 2 July 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  22. ↑ “Election Results 2008 Punjab Assembly”. Election Commission of Pakistan website. 13 April 2008. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2021.

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