In 1820,
the north-western part of Delhi territory was sub-divided into two districts
the northern and western. The western district included Bhiwani, Hansi, Hissar
and Sirsa. The Hissar district which was basically constituted in 1820, had
its headquarters at Hansi. In 1824, Rohtak district which had previously been
under the western part of territory of Delhi was constituted into a separate
district to which Bhiwani tahsil was transferred. In 1832, the Haryana territory
officially designated as Delhi division, comprising the districts of Hissar,
Delhi, Rohtak, Panipat and Gurgaon was brought under the Regulations of the
East India Company and included in North-Western Provinces2. So, in 1832,
Hissar was made the headquarters of the district in place of Hansi. The district
was then divided into 4 tahsils; Hissar, Fatehabad, Hansi and Tosham. In 1837,
Ratia and Tohana parganas were added to Hissar district and formed into a
separate tahsil of Tohana. Sirsa tract was detached in 1837 from the Hissar
district and placed under a separate officer styled as superintendent of Bhatiana.
The pargana of Darba& pargana of Rori were transferred to Bhatiana in
1838 and 1847, respectively. In 1852, the pargana of Ratia was transferred
from Tohana tahsil to Fatehabad Tahsil and Barwala
pargana was detached from
Hissar tahsil and was formed into a separate tahsil of Barwala along with
Tohana. The whole of Delhi territory alongwith Bhatiana and Hissar was transferred
to the Punjab and district of Bhatiana was renamed as Sirsa.
In 1861, Bhiwani tahsil
was detached from Rohtak and added to Hissar district. The Tosham tahsil was
abolished and added to Bhiwani tahsil in the same year. The Hissar district
gained 24 villages from Meham- Bhiwani tahsil of Rohtak district;18 villages
including the town of Bhiwani were added to Bhiwani tahsil and 6 villages
to Hansi tahsil.
In
November, 1884, the Sirsa district was abolished and Sirsa tahsil with 159 villages
was added to Hissar district and formed the Sirsa tahsil . In 1889, 15 villages
forming a detached block known as Budhlada illaqa, were transferred from Kaithal
tahsil to Fatehabad tahsil. The Barwala tahsil containing 139 villages was abolished
with effect from January 1,1891 and its area was distributed between 3 contiguous
tahsils; 13 villages going to Hansi, 24 to Hissar and 102 to Fatehabad1. At
the same time 13 villages were transferred from Hissar tahsil to Bhiwani tahsil
and a sub-tahsil was established at Tohana in Fatehabad tahsil. In 1923, the
Tohana sub-tahsil was transferred from Fatehabad to Hissar tahsil. No transfer
of territory to or from the district took place till the passing of the Provinces
and States (Absorption of Enclaves) Order, 1950 by which the erstwhile princely
state of Loharu was merged in the district and 15 villages comprising Budhlada
illaqa were taken out from Hissar district and added to Bhatinda district. With
the view to decentralising the authority in the administrative set-up, the district
was divided into sub-divisions; Fatehabad and Hansi sub-divisions were created
in 1961 and 1964, respectively. Hissar sub-division was created in 1965
Haryana
as a State was created on November 1, 1966. In 1968, Sirsa tahsil was bifurcated
into Sirsa and Dabwali tahsils and Bhiwani tahsil was bifurcated into Bhiwani
and Loharu. The above administrative arrangement continued till 1972 when whole
of Loharu and Bhiwani tahsils, 32 villages of Hansi and 17 villages of Hissar
tahsils were excluded and included in the then formed Bhiwani district2. Tohana
sub-tahsil of the Hissar tahsil was upgraded to a tahsil in 1972.
In 1975, Sirsa and Dabwali
tahsils were excluded from the district and a new district of Sirsa was carved
out1. In 1979 two sub-tahsils, one at Ratia of tahsil Fatehabad comprising
67 villages and other at Adampur of Hissar tahsil comprising 32 villages were
created. A sub-division was formed at Tohana in 1981. Ratia sub-tahsil was
upgraded to a tahsil in 1981. The position having tahsils, sub-divisions and
sub-tahsils by the beginning of 1991 was as under: the district had 4 sub-
divisions (Hissar, Tohana,Fatehabad, and Hansi); 6 tahsils (Hissar, Tohana,
Fatehabad, Ratia, Hansi and Narnaund); 3 sub-tahsils ( Adampur, Uklana Mandi
and Bhuna). There is divisional headquarters at Hissar.
