Sri Hargobindpur
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Sri Hargobindpur is a city and a municipal council
Municipal council
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 in Gurdaspur district
Gurdaspur District
Gurdaspur district is a district in the state of Punjab, situated in the northwest part of the Republic of India. Gurdaspur is the district headquarters. It internationally borders Narowal District of the Pakistani Punjab, Kathua District of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjab districts of Amritsar and...

 in the India
India
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n state
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 of Punjab
Punjab (India)
Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

. Situated on the banks of the Beas
Beas
Beas may refer to:* Beas, Punjab, a town in Punjab, India* Beas River, a river in the northwestern region of India...

 River, the city is also the erstwhile capital of the Ramgarhia
Ramgarhia
The Ramgarhia community is an Indo Aryan ethnic tribe of the Punjab region in South Asia. They are named after Sardar Jassa Singh Ramgarhia who was the leader of the Ramgarhia Misl...

 Misl.

Demographics

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Census
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, Sri Hargobindpur had a population of 3993. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Sri Hargobindpur has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 69%, and female literacy is 63%. In Sri Hargobindpur, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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