Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh

Hyderabad was founded around the year 1700 by one Haider Khan, after whom the town is named.[1] It was previously grouped together with the village Gandhwara as a single mauza called Gandhwara-Haiderabad, but the two had been split by the turn of the 20th century.[1] At that time, Hyderabad had a lower primary school with 56 students and a small temple to Devi, and markets were held twice per week.[1] The town had a population of 3,854 in 1901, including 324 Muslims, and Brahmins formed the largest Hindu group by population.[1]

The 1961 census recorded Hyderabad (as "Haidrabad") as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 3,387 (1,790 male and 1,597 female), in 585 households and 569 physical houses. [3] The area of the village was given as 1,040 acres.[3] The village had a post office and a medical practitioner at the time, as well as the following small-scale industrial establishments: 2 grain mills, 5 miscellaneous food processing facilities, 1 maker of sundry hardwares, 2 bicycle repair shops, and 3 makers of jewellery and/or precious metal items.[3] It formed part of the community development block of Miyanganj.[3]

Hyderabad was first classified as a town for the 1981 census.[4] At that time, the main items imported were diesel oil, kerosene oil, and sugar; the main manufacturing was the making of parched rice; and the biggest exports were parched rice, wheat, and mangoes.[4]

As of the 2001 Census of India,[5] Hyderabad had a population of 6,937. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Hyderabad has an average literacy rate of 44%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 53%, and female literacy is 35%. In Hyderabad, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

According to the 2011 census, Hyderabad has a population of 7,697 people, in 1,328 households.[2] The town's sex ratio is 923 females to every 1000 males; 4,003 of Hyderabad's residents are male (52.0%) and 3,694 are female (48.0%).[2] The 0-6 age group makes up about 15.6% of the town's population; the sex ratio for this group is 879, which is lower than the district urban average of 903.[2] Members of Scheduled Castes make up 20.98% of the town's population, while no members of Scheduled Tribes were recorded.[2] The town's literacy rate was 63.1% (counting only people age 7 and up); literacy was higher among men and boys (71.4%) than among women and girls (54.3%).[2] The scheduled castes literacy rate is 55.0% (64.5% among men and boys, and 44.6% among women and girls).[2]

In terms of employment, 21.7% of Hyderabad residents were classified as main workers (i.e. people employed for at least 6 months per year) in 2011.[2] Marginal workers (i.e. people employed for less than 6 months per year) made up 7.4%, and the remaining 70.9% were non-workers.[2] Employment status varied dramatically according to gender, with 50.0% of men being either main or marginal workers, compared to only 6.5% of women.[2]

24.3% of Hyderabad residents live in slum conditions as of 2011.[2] There are 2 slum areas in Hyderabad: Vinoba Nagar and Gandhinagar.[2] These range in size from about 118 households in Vinoba Nagar to 152 in Gandhinagar, and they have between 7 (Vinoba Nagar) and 8 (Gandhinagar) tap water access points.[2] The number of flush toilets installed in people's homes ranges from 23 in Vinoba Nagar to 47 in Gandhinagar.[2] Both areas are serviced by open sewers.[2]