Sitamau
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Sitamau is a town and a nagar panchayat
in Mandsaur district
in the India
n state
of Madhya Pradesh
. It is in the Mandsaur district of Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh.
It was the seat of the princely Sitamau State
.
Notable Hindi film composer Sajjad Hussain
was born in Sitamau in 1917.
, Sitamau had a population of 12,889. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sitamau has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 26%. In Sitamau, 49% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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 Mandsaur district
Mandsaur District
Mandsaur District is a District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Mandsaur is the administrative headquarters of the district.-Origin of name:...
in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...
of Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
. It is in the Mandsaur district of Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh.
It was the seat of the princely Sitamau State
Sitamau State
Sitamau State was princely state before 1947, it was founded in 1701, and was ruled by the Rathore dynasty. The total area of the state was 523 square kilometres.It belonged to Malwa Agency....
.
Notable Hindi film composer Sajjad Hussain
Sajjad Hussain (composer)
Sajjad Hussain was an Indian film score composer.- Biography :Sajjad Hussain was born in 1917 in the Sitamau, which as at that time, a village in the Central India Agency. As a child, he was taught sitar by his father Mohammed Amir Khan. He learnt veena, violin, flute and piano during his teenager...
was born in Sitamau in 1917.
Demographics
India censusCensus
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...
, Sitamau had a population of 12,889. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sitamau has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 26%. In Sitamau, 49% of the population is under 6 years of age.