Editing Aligarh (section)

==Demographics==
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|title=Religions in Aligarh city (2011)<ref name="religion">{{Cite web|date=2011|title=Table C-01 Population by Religion: Uttar Pradesh|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/11394/download/14507/DDW09C-01%20MDDS.XLS|website=censusindia.gov.in|publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]]}}</ref>
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{{bar percent|[[Hinduism]]|darkorange|55.36}}
{{bar percent|[[Islam in Uttar Pradesh|Islam]]|green|42.64}}
{{bar percent|[[Christianity in Uttar Pradesh|Christianity]]|dodgerblue|0.53}}
{{bar percent|Other or not stated|black|0.47}}
|caption=Distribution of religions
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According to the 2011 Census, Aligarh has a total population of 874,408, of which 461,772 are males and 412,636 are females. Population in the age range 0–6 years is 119,543. The literacy rate is 59.15%, of which the male literacy rate is 63.42% and female literacy rate is 54.37%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Aligarh was 68.5%, of which male literacy rate was 62.9% and the female literacy rate was 70.8%. The [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] have a population of 138,184 and 332 respectively. There were 147,363 households in Aligarh as of 2011.<ref name="Census2011">{{cite web |title=Census of India: Search Details |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=140882 |website=www.censusindia.gov.in |access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref> The city lies in the cultural region of [[Braj]].<ref name="LuciaMichelutti1">{{cite web | url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2106/1/U613338.pdf | title=Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town | publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science University of London | work=PhD Thesis Social Anthropology | date=2002 | access-date=20 May 2015 | author=Lucia Michelutti | pages=49}}</ref>
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File:Khalifa Daud, Aligarh.png|Sunni Muslim, Aligarh
File:Meer Inayut Hosein, Shiah Mahomedan, a Syud or descendant of Mahomed, Allyghur.png|Shia Muslim, Aligarh
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|caption = Languages in Aligarh (2011)<ref name="Lang"/>
|label1 = [[Hindi]] |value1 = 81.50 |color1 = orange
|label2 = [[Urdu]] |value2 = 17.20 |color2 = green
|label3 = Others |value3 = 1.20 |color3 = grey
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[[Hindi]] is the most spoken language. Urdu is the second-largest language.<ref name="Lang">{{cite web |title=2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue - Uttar Pradesh (Town Level) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10235/download/13347/DDW-C16-TOWN-STMT-MDDS-0900.XLSX |access-date=27 June 2022 |website=censusindia.gov.in |publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]]}}</ref>