Country Pakistan Time zone PST (UTC+5) Number of Union Councils 34 | District Charsadda Number of towns 1 Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
Charsadda Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
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Administration
The tehsil is administratively subdivided into 34 Union Councils, four of which form the headquarters - Charsadda.
History
During British rule Charsadda was the North-western tehsil of Peshawar District, its boundaries were larger than today lying between 34°2' and 34°32' N. and 71° 30' and 71° 56'E, with an area of 380 square miles (980 km2). The population was 142,756 according to the 1901 census an increase of almost 10,000 since the 1891 census (132,917). It contained three towns, Charsadda, Prang (19,354) and Tangi, with 168 villages. The land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 3,60,000.
The tehsil consisted of the doab and the Hashtnagar tappas or circles. The former lies between the Adizai branch of the Kabul river and the Swat, and is fertile, highly cultivated, with numerous villages, and better wooded than other parts of the District; even the uplands which run along the foot of the Mohmand hills for their whole length are now irrigated by private canals. It is mainly held by the Gigyani tribe of Pakhtuns. The Hashtnagar tappa comprises a strip of plain country with a rich clay soil, which stretches 10 miles (16 km) eastward of the Swat, and from the Utman Khel hills on the north to the Kabul River on the south. It is held by Muhammadzai PathansMuhammadzai (Charsadda), and in it lies Charsadda, the headquarters of the tahsil. This tappa is intersected by the Swat River Canal.