Chitradurga (district)

Chitradurga District ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ
State	Karnataka
Division :	Bangalore
Administrative headquarters :	Chitradurga
Area :	8,428 km²
Residents :	1,660,378 (2011)
Population density :	197 inhabitants / km²
Website :	chitradurga.nic.in

The district of Chitradurga ( Kannada : ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ; also: Chitradurg , earlier Anglicised Chitaldroog ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka . The administrative center is the eponymous city of Chitradurga .

geography

Landscape in the district of Chitradurga

The district of Chitradurga is located in central Carnataka on the border with the state of Andhra Pradesh . Neighboring districts are Tumkur in the southeast, Chikmagalur in the southwest, Davanagere in the northwest, Bellary in the north (all part of Karnataka) and Anantapur (Andhra Pradesh) in the east.

The area of ​​the district of Chitradurga is 8,428 square kilometers. The district area belongs to the southern part of the Dekkan Plateau and presents itself as a plateau from which isolated mountains rise. The river Vedavathi (Hagari), a tributary of the Tungabhadra , flows from south to north through the district of Chitradurga.

The district of Chitradurga is divided into the six taluks Challakere, Chitradurga, Hiriyur, Holalkere, Hosadurga and Molakalmuru.

history

View of Fort Chitradurga (RH Fotheringham, 1801)

The finding of edicts of Ashoka in the district of Chitradurga shows that the area of ​​the current district in the 3rd century BC. Belonged to the great empire of the Maurya . Later the area was under the rule of changing dynasties such as the Rashtrakuta , Chalukya and Hoysala . After an invasion of the Delhi Sultanate in the 14th century, Chitradurga finally came to the Vijayanagar Hindu Empire. In the 15th century, the kings of Vijayanagar installed military governors ( nayaks ) in Chitradurga, who expanded the Fort Chitradurga and became independent after the fall of Vijayanagar in the 16th century. In 1779, Hyder Ali conquered the fort, making the Chitradurga area part of the Kingdom of Mysore .

After the Mysore Wars ended , Mysore became a nominally sovereign princely state under British suzerainty. During the British colonial era, the Chitradurga district was established as one of the Mysores districts. After Indian independence, Mysore joined the Indian Union in 1949. Due to the reorganization of the Indian states in the course of the States Reorganization Act , the district of Chitradurga became part of the state of Mysore (renamed Karnataka in 1973 ) after the language borders of the Kannada . In 1997, the Davanagere district split off as an independent district from Chitradurga.

population

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Chitradurga district has 1,660,378 inhabitants. Compared to the last census in 2001, the population had grown by 9.4 percent and thus lower than the average in Karnataka (15.7 percent). The population density of 197 people per square kilometer is below the state average (319 people per square kilometer). The Chitradurga district is clearly rural: Only 19.8 percent of the population lives in cities, while in the whole of Karnataka it is 38.6 percent. At 73.8 percent, the literacy rate is slightly lower than the mean value in Karnataka (76.1 percent).

According to the 2001 census , Hindus make up a large majority of 91.5 percent of the residents of the district . For Islam is a minority of 7.2 percent professes. The 2001 census classified 17.5 percent of the district's population as members of the tribal population (see Adivasi ). These are almost exclusively members of the Naikda tribe .

In addition to Kannada , the main language of Karnataka, and Urdu , which, like most parts of Karnataka, is spoken by the majority of Muslims, Telugu , the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh, is also widespread in the Chitradurga district .

Cities

city	Population (2001)
Challakers	49,065
Chitradurga	122,594
Hiriyur	48,772
Holakere	14,571
Hosdurga	22,480
Molakalmuru	14,131

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals: Data Sheet (PDF; 1.7 MB) and Population and decadal growth rate by residence Persons. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ^ Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Chitradurga (13), Karnataka (29). (PDF; 54 kB)
3. ↑ Census of India 2001: Population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex - Cities / Towns (in alphabetic order) ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 10: Central Provinces to Coopta. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 289-296 , keyword: Chitaldroog District .

Web links

Commons : Chitradurga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• District website