[3] Five mahals were in Lucknow sarkar: Sandila, Mallanwan, Kachhandao, "Garanda" (probably a miscopying of Gundwa), and Bilgram.

[3] As for the sarkar of Khairabad, the mahals of Gopamau, Sara, Bawan, Sandi, Pali, and Barwar-Anjana were either partially or entirely in the territory of modern Hardoi district.

[3] The pargana of Balamau was formed out of Sandila around the end of Akbar's reign, and it included an area of 42 villages cleared from the jungle by a Kurmi named Balai.

[3] Kalyanmal became a separate pargana during the reign of Aurangzeb, when a fort was built there; it had previously been part of Gundwa.

[3] Finally, Barwar-Anjana was entirely dismantled in 1703 and replaced with 9 smaller parganas, including Pindwara, Pihani, and Alamnagar.

[3] Its eastern border is formed by the Gomti River, which separates it from Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri districts.

[3] There are two main geographic divisions of Hardoi district: the kachh or lowlands in the west and the bangar or uplands in the east.

[3] The dividing line between them is a high bank of barren sandhills on the east side of the Garra basin, running north–south in the western part of the district.

[3] Between them and the river, there is a small area of tarai lowlands with mostly poor sandy soil, some of which is covered by swamps.

[3] The uplands are characterised by rolling sandhills, which are often covered with tufts of munj grass several meters tall.

[3] These hills are otherwise dry and barren, and they present a constant hazard to the farms below them because they are liable to shift during high winds.

[3] The sandy ridges are broken up by steep ravines, which drain the water that collects in lower-lying areas to the west.

[3] There are many depressions and jhils, stretches of barren usar land, and, historically, scattered patches of dhak jungle.

[3] The western border of the bangar uplands is formed by another high bank of barren sandhills, which mark the eastern part of the Garra basin and may have once done the same for the Ganges.

[3] Continuing westward, the final river that crosses the kachh is the mighty Ganges, whose course often shifts around in its extremely wide bed.

[3] Hardoi district was once heavily wooded, especially in the upland areas, but by the turn of the 20th century much of this had been cleared, mostly since the 1870s.

[3] In the eastern parts of the district, the surface soil is a reddish clay with an average depth of about 8 feet.

[3] The chital, or spotted deer, was once fairly common in the area, but by the early 20th century it had "practically disappeared".

[4] According to the 2011 census Hardoi district has a population of 4,092,845,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Lebanon[6] or the US state of Oregon.

[2] These tehsils consist of 19 blocks (Ahrori, Hariyawan, Sursa, Shahabad, Bharkhani, Bharawan, Harpalpur, Bilgram, Madhoganj, Mallawan, Tadiyawan, Tondarpur, Kothwan, Sandila, Behadar, Pihani, Sandi, Kachhauna, Bawan).

[citation needed] Currently, Neeraj Kumar Jadaun is the supreintendent of police of the district.

The district is divided into 6 circles headed by the Circle Officer (CO), and 26 police stations, including one mahila thana in the district headed by the station house officer (SHO) of Uttar Pradesh Police.

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Hardoi one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).