Tulsipur is a town and a nagar panchayat

Nagar Panchayat

A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....

 in Balrampur district

Balrampur district

Balrampur district is one of the 72 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Balrampur town located on the bank of the Rapti is the district headquarters. Balrampur district is a part of Devipatan division, and historic Awadh region....

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

. It is on the Gorakhpur-Gonda Loop of Indian Railway with bus connection to Koilabas

Koilabas

Koilabas is a bazaar town and Village Development Committee in Dang Deokhuri District in Rapti Zone of south-western Nepal. The town is situated on the southern edge of the Dudhwa Range of the Siwaliks, at Nepal's border with Uttar Pradesh...

 on the Nepal border.

Geography

Tulsipur is located at 27.55°N 82.42°E. It has an average elevation of 109 metres (357 feet).
Tulsipur is Famous for temple of Pateshwari Devi ,Devi Patan, a Shakti Peeth of Mata Shakti, To the left of the temple is Surya Kund which according to legend, was made by Karn of the Mahabharata in honour of his father, the Sun god.Tulsipur is also known for Devi Patan Mela which is held chaitra Navratri (April month) Tusipur seen the Battle of 1857 its Maharani Ishwari Devi played main rol in 1857 Kranti.

Dharam Veer Singh

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Tulsipur had a population of 21,234. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Tulsipur has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 62%, and female literacy is 47%. In Tulsipur, 16% of the population is under 14 years of age.

History

The House of Tulsipur

House of Tulsipur

The Royal House of Tulsipur or Tulsipur-Dang was one of 22 principalities in the Baise Rajya confederation of the western Rapti region before the unification of Nepal, c. 1760. The Rajas of Tulsipur-Dang belonged to the Chauhan clan...

 ruled one of the largest Taluqs of Oudh, India which then included the Dang and Deukhuri Valleys. Therefore it also counted as one of the Baise Rajya , a confederation in what became western Nepal. Another Tulsipur

Tulsipur, Rapti

Tulsipur is a town and V.D.C. in Dang Deokhuri District in the Rapti Zone of south-western Nepal. It is also the district's main bazaar. The 1991 Nepal census counted 13,815 persons in 2,540 households. Dang Airport is about two km south of the town center...

 in Dang Deukhuri District, Nepal, lies 65 km. to the north. The two Tulsipurs are linked by once having had the same rulers.