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Mansehra (Urdu, ) is a city in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is the 71st most populous city in the country and the 7th most populous in the province, and serves as the headquarter of its namesake Mansehra Tehsil and district.
The British East India Company conquered Mansehra after the defeat of the Sikhs in the first Anglo-Sikh War in 1846. The British divided Hazara region into three tehsils (administrative subdivisions): Mansehra, Abbottabad, and Haripur. Hazara formed part of British Punjab until 1901, when the British formed the buffer province of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Hazara was annexed into it. During the British Raj, Mansehra was a small town. Its population according to the 1901 census was 5,087.
On 8th of June 1847 James Abbott, who would later become First Deputy Commissioner of Hazara, noted in his journal: "Marched to Maunseera, 16 miles (from Nawan Shehr). Found a regiment of Jumboo troops in the town, quartering themselves not only in the ' shops but in the houses and amongst the women of the unfortunate inhabitants. The troops have no tents, had brought no cooking utensils, and of course were exercising the right which might confers to make use of the and cooking utensils of their fellow-subjects. Can it be wondered that any people possessing means of resistance should revolt against such tyranny?" JOURNALS AND DIARIES OF THE ASSISTANTS TO THE RESIDENT AT LAHORE - No. 11.—Journal of Captain James Abbott, Boundary Commissioner, Punjaub, from 1st to llth June 1847.
After the independence, Hazara district was elevated to the divisional status in 1976. In the October of the same year Mansehra Tehsil was made district and Mansehra became its headquarters.
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Organisation
Mansehra City is the administrative capital of District and Tehsil Mansehra. The City of Mansehra is administratively divided into four Union Councils: Mansehra City Wards 1–4 and Mansehra (Rural)/suburban. Each union council is divided into .
Demographics
Population
According to the 2023 census, Mansehra had a population of 137,278 which was an increase of 1.22% since the 2017 census, table below shows details from the first census in 1951 and onwards.
Languages
According to the 2023 Census of Pakistan, Mansehra City has a predominantly Hindko-speaking population, with Hindko spoken by 79.42% of residents. Pashto is the second most common first language, accounting for 10.96% of the population, followed by Urdu at 5.91%. While an additional 3.71% of the city spoke Other languages (mostly Punjabi and Shina).
Religion
+ Religious groups in Mansehra City (1931−2017)
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! colspan="2"1931
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! colspan="2" 2017 Islam 4,217 8,141 144,838 Hinduism 1,091 1,699 2 Sikhism 469 375 Christianity 3 2 39 Jainism 0 Zoroastrianism 0 0 Judaism 0 0 Buddhism 0 Ahmadiyya 0 Others 0 0 19
Cultural festival
The city hosts the Mansehra Shiva Temple, which is known for its annual Shivarathri festival. During the festival of Durga Puja, held in the first month of the Hindu calendar and the seventh month of the Nanakshahi calendar, about 400 local assembled on Bareri Hill to worship Devi (as Durga). Offerings were taken by a Brahmin of Mansehra. The assembly on each occasion lasted only one day. The site is ancient, as at the base of Bareri Hill are the boulders inscribed with the Edicts of Ashoka.
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