:Kaushambi district

Kaushambi was the capital of the ancient Indian Vatsa Mahajanapada,{{cite book | title = Geographical Review of India | publisher = Geographical Society of India | year = 1951 | location = Original from the University of Michigan | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=O0YMAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Vatsa%22+-wikipedia+Mahajanapada | page = 27 }}{{cite book | last = Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund | title = A History of India | publisher = Routledge | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=V73N8js5ZgAC&q=%22Vatsa%22+-wikipedia+Mahajanapada&pg=PA52 | isbn = 0-415-32920-5| page = 52 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnwXuJaeDvgC|title=Civil Services Pre.Exam.Indian History ( From Earliest Times To 1964 A.D.)|last=Dr.K.K.Sharma|date=2009-01-01|publisher=Upkar Prakashan|isbn=9788174828880|language=en}} one of 16 such kingdoms. According to the Puranas, Vatsa was named after a Kāśī king.Pargiter, F.E. (1972) Ancient Indian Historical Tradition, Motilal Banarasidass, Delhi, pp.269-70 The Ramayana and the Mahabharata attribute the founding of its capital' Kauśāmbī, to a Chedi prince (Kuśa or Kuśāmba). The Puranas state that after Hastinapur was washed away by the Ganges, the Bharata king Nicakṣu (great-great grandson of Janamejaya), abandoned the city and settled in Kauśāmbī. This is supported by the {{IAST|Svapnavāsavadattā}} and the {{IAST|Pratijñā-Yaugandharāyaṇa}}, attributed to Bhāsa. Both described the king, Udayana, as a scion of the Bhārata family ({{IAST|Bhārata-kula}}). The Puranas contain a list of Nicakṣu’s successors which ends with the king Kṣemaka.Raychaudhuri, Hemchandra (1972) Political History of Ancient India, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, p.117-8 Gautama Buddha visited Kaushambi several times during the reign of Udayana in his effort to spread the dharma, the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Noble Truths, and Udayana was a Buddhist upāsaka. According to the Chinese translation of the Buddhist canonical text {{IAST|Ekottara Āgama}}, the first image of the Buddha (carved from sandalwood) was made at Udayana's request. The Puranas state that his four successors were Vahināra, DanḍapāṇI, Niramitra and Kṣemaka. Vatsa was later annexed by Avanti, and Maniprabha (Pradyota's great-grandson) ruled at Kauśāmbī as a prince of Avanti. Ashoka considered Kaushambi important, and placed a pillar there with inscriptions in Pali; a Jain temple was also constructed. The pillar and temple still stand, and Vatsa is being excavated by archaeologists.

Kaushambi district was carved from Allahabad district on 4 April 1997. In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Kaushambi one of India's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF).{{cite web|author=Ministry of Panchayati Raj |date=8 September 2009 |title=A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme |publisher=National Institute of Rural Development |url=http://www.nird.org.in/brgf/doc/brgf_BackgroundNote.pdf |access-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405033402/http://www.nird.org.in/brgf/doc/brgf_BackgroundNote.pdf |archive-date= 5 April 2012 }}

{{historical populations|11=1901|12=3,46,185|13=1911|14=3,40,788|15=1921|16=3,26,230|17=1931|18=3,46,458|19=1941|20=4,20,798|21=1951|22=4,75,525|23=1961|24=5,55,870|25=1971|26=6,44,994|27=1981|28=8,13,788|29=1991|30=10,21,653|31=2001|32=12,91,993|33=2011|34=15,99,596|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:Government of India{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A2_Data_Table.html|title=Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901|website=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner|access-date=15 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190808131957/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A2_Data_Table.html|archive-date=8 August 2019|url-status=live}}|align=center}}

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According to the 2011 census, Kaushambi district had a population of 1,599,596,{{cite web |year=2011 |title=District Census Handbook: Kaushambi|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/1242/download/3982/DH_2011_0943_PART_A_DCHB_KAUSHAMBI.pdf|access-date= |website=censusindia.gov.in |publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}} (comparable to the population of Guinea-Bissau{{cite web | author = US Directorate of Intelligence | title = Country Comparison:Population | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004507/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 13 June 2007 | access-date = 2011-10-01 | quote = Guinea-Bissau 1,596,677 July 2011 est.

}} and the US state of Idaho);{{cite web

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}} this ranks it 313th of India's 640 districts. The district has a population density of {{convert| 897 |PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}}. Its population growth rate from 2001 to 2011 was 23.49 percent. Kaushambi has a sex ratio of 905 females to 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 63.69 percent. 7.78% of the population live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes make up 34.72% of the population.

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At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 98.57% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 1.10% Urdu as their first language.

Closest Airport to Kaushambi is in Prayagraj Airport which is 56 kilometers (34.7 miles) away from district headquarters and has flights to major destinations such as Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata etc.

Manjhanpur Roadways bus depot connects the headquarter by road to all major cities and towns.

Major railway station is in neighboring Prayagraj (56 km). Kaushambi district also has several railway stations:

• Sirathu railway station, Sirathu
• Bharwari railway station, Bharwari
• Manauri railway station, Manauri bajar

Mohamed Aslam was a heavyweight boxer from Bharwari who was a silver medalist at the Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in 1973 and 1975.{{cite web|url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AsianChampionships1973.html|title=Asian Championships - Bangkok, Thailand - May 3-9 1973|access-date=16 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228130052/http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AsianChampionships1973.html|archive-date=28 December 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AsianChampionships1975.html|title=Asian Championships - Yokohama, Japan - September 23-28 1975|access-date=16 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522062656/http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AsianChampionships1975.html|archive-date=22 May 2017|url-status=live}} Aslam won the Indian national championship in the heavyweight category for five consecutive years (1973–1978).

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• [https://kaushambi.nic.in/ Official website]

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|North = Rae Bareli district

|Northeast = Pratapgarh district

|East = Allahabad district

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