Hisar District
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Hisar district is one of the 19 districts of Haryana state, India, and Hisar town is the district headquarters. The district is also part of an administrative division of the same name, namely, Hisar, and the Hisar Division is headed by a commissioner who belongs to the Indian Administrative Service.
Origin of name
The present name of Hisar is derived from the urduArabic world “Hisar” which means a fort. A fort by the name of Hisar-e-Firoza, meaning Fort of Firoz was constructed by Firozshah Tughlaq in 1354. Over a period of time, the word fort was dropped, and Hisar remained in currency.
Administrative set-up
Hisar continued to be the District Headquarters of the largest District in the state till its reorganization; some parts of it were transferred to Jind in 1966 when Jind was made a new District. Tehsil Bhiwani and Loharu estate were transferred to Bhiwani District when Bhiwani was carved out in 1974. It was further bifurcated when Sirsa become a new district entirely out of Hisar District. Now Fatehabad has been carved out of this district.At present Hisar district consists of four tehsils and three Sub-tehsils. The tehsils are Hisar, Hansi, Narnaund and Adampur and sub tehsils are Barwala, Uklana and Bass.
External links
- http://hisar.nic.in
- redirect
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