Sandila
human settlement in Hardoi district, Lucknow Division, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sandila is a town and nagar palika parishad in Hardoi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It serves as a tehsil headquarters within the district. Located midway between Hardoi and Lucknow, Sandila is a well-connected town with roads leading in all directions and a major broad gauge rail line passing through the south side of town. According to legend, Sandila was the Tapobhumi of the Vedic sage Shandilya. The Shandilya Ashram was located at the temple of Goddess Shitala known as Shitala Mata Mandir in western side of the town.
Important industries include sweets — its laddus are especially well-known — as well as beedi production and zardozi work. Sandila Industrial Area have many big industries like Pepsi, British Paints, Berger Paints, Webley & Scott, ITC Limited, Haldiram's.
Sandila is the oldest municipality in Hardoi district, established on 14 July 1868. As of 2011, its population is 58,346, in 9,663 households.
History
Sandila became the seat of Arkvanshi (suryavanshi) power in the early 13th century and became a flourishing town under Arkvanshi (suryavanshi) rajput.
The public source identifies “Sandila” as human settlement in Hardoi district, Lucknow Division, Uttar Pradesh, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sandila, human and settlement.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2717875. VIAF identifies the subject as 125828644. The Library of Congress control number is no2002108125. Authority coordinates are 27.080, 80.520. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sandila” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.