Dharwad (District)

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Dharwad
District ಧಾರವಾಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ
District map
State Karnataka
Division : Belgaum
Administrative headquarters : Dharwad
Area : 4,256 km²
Residents : 1,846,993 (2011)
Population density : 434 inhabitants / km²
Website : dharwad.nic.in

The Dharwad District ( Kannada : ಧಾರವಾಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ; formerly Dharwar ) is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka . The administrative seat is the eponymous Dharwad, which together with the neighboring Hubli forms the twin city of Hubli-Dharwad .

geography

The Dharwad District is located in northern Karnataka. Neighboring districts are Gadag in the east, Haveri in the south, Uttara Kannada in the west and Belgaum in the north.

The area of ​​the district is 4,256 square kilometers. The district area belongs to the highlands of Dekkan and has an average height of 800 meters above sea level. In the west, the Dharwad district has a share of the Western Ghats , which border the Dekkan Plateau to the west. The area lies on the watershed between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and is poor in major rivers.

The Dharwad District is divided into the five taluks Dharwad, Navalgund, Hubli, Kalghatgi and Kundgol.

history

In the Third Marath War, the British conquered the area of ​​today's Dharwad district in 1817. The British founded the Dharwad District and incorporated the area into the Bombay Presidency . Initially, the district covered a much larger area than it is today. The Belgaum district was split off as early as 1836 . Within the Dharwad district were the small princely state of Savanur and exclaves of the princely states of Jamkhandi , Sangli and Miraj Junior and Senior . After Indian independence in 1947, Dharwad initially remained in the state of Bombay. When the boundaries of the Indian states were redrawn according to the language boundaries by the States Reorganization Act in 1956 , Dharwad came to the Kannada-speaking state of Mysore, which was renamed Karnataka in 1973 . In 1997 the district of Dharwad was divided into the three districts of Dharwad, Gadag and Haveri .

population

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Dharwad district has 1,846,993 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by 15.1 percent, about the same speed as the average in Karnataka (15.7 percent). The Dharwad district is heavily urbanized: 56.8 percent of the population live in cities, the majority of them in the twin city of Hubli-Dharwad , the second largest city of Karnataka with around 944,000 inhabitants. The population density of 434 inhabitants per square kilometer is well above the state average (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). At 80.3 percent, the literacy rate is higher than the average for Karnataka (76.1 percent).

According to the 2001 census, Hindus make up the majority of the residents of Dharwad District with 76.1 percent. There is also a large Muslim population of 19.7 percent. Christians (1.7 percent) and Jainas (1.6 percent) represent smaller minorities. In addition to Kannada , the main language of Karnataka, Urdu is common among the Muslim population of the Dharwad district, as in most parts of Karnataka . In the Taluk Hubli-Dharwad of the Dharwad district, Urdu has the status of an associated official language due to the high proportion of its speakers in the population.

Cities

city Population
(2001)
Alnavar 16,286
Annigeri 25,709
Hubli-Dharwad 786.018
Kalghatgi 14,676
Kundgol 16,837
Naval Ground 22,200

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. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Census GIS India. )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.censusindiamaps.net
  3. ↑ AR Fatihi: "Urdu in Karnataka", in: Language in India 2: 9 December of 2002.
  4. ↑ 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 11: Coondapoor to Edwardesābād. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 302-315 , keyword: Dhārwār District .

Web links

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