After time around the areas of the castle was also known by, Pratapgarh; In 1928, the arrival of Simon Commission in India led to widespread agitations against the British government.

The district was also visited by Mahatma Gandhi on 14 November 1929, who addressed a crowd of 5000 and was awarded a purse of Rs 5,570 by then-Raja Awadhesh Singh of Kalakankar.

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

[4] According to the 2011 census Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh had a population of 3,209,141,[7] roughly equal to the nation of Mongolia[8] or the US state of Iowa.

[7] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 90.74% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 6.02% Awadhi and 3.13% Urdu as their first language.