Gulbarga (District)

Gulbarga District ಗುಲ್ಬರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ
State	Karnataka
Division :	Gulbarga
Administrative headquarters :	Gulbarga
Area :	10,508 km²
Residents :	2,175,102 (2011)
Population density :	207 inhabitants / km²
Website :	gulbarga.nic.in

The district of Gulbarga ( Kannada : ಗುಲ್ಬರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka . The administrative seat is the eponymous city of Gulbarga .

geography

The Gulbarga district is located in the northeast of Karnataka on the border with the neighboring states of Telangana and Maharashtra . Neighboring districts are Bidar (Karnataka) in the north, Medak in the northeast, Rangareddy in the east, Mahbubnagar in the southeast (all Telangana), Yadgir in the south, Bijapur in the southwest (both Karnataka) and Solapur and Osmanabad in the northwest (both Maharashtra).

With an area of ​​11,008 square kilometers, the Gulbarga district is the second largest district of Karnataka. Its area belongs to the highlands of Dekkan and has an average altitude of 400 to 600 meters above sea level. In the north, on the border with the Bidar district, a chain of hills runs through the district, otherwise the terrain is a flat plateau. The most important river in the Gulbarga district is the Bhima , a tributary of the Krishna .

The Gulbarga district is divided into the seven taluks Aland, Afzalpur, Gulbarga, Chincholi, Sedam, Chitapur and Jevargi.

history

The Friday Mosque of Gulbarga (photo from 1880) was completed in 1367 under the Bahmani Sultanate.

The area of ​​today's Gulbarga District was under the control of changing ruling dynasties in the course of its early history. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Muslim rule began in Gulbarga with the conquest by the Sultanate of Delhi . In 1345 the Bahmani Sultanate, with Gulbarga as the capital, split off from the Delhi Sultanate and developed into an important power factor in the Deccan. At the turn of the 15th to the 16th century, the Bahmani Sultanate disintegrated due to internal conflicts and split into the five Deccan sultanates . The area of ​​Gulbarga came to the Sultanate of Bijapur before it was conquered by the Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb in 1657 . In 1724 Gulbarga again came to Hyderabad , which had split off from the Mughal Empire under Asaf Jah I. During the British colonial era , Hyderabad became a nominally independent princely state under British sovereignty.

The Gulbarga District was established in 1873 as an administrative unit of the Princely State of Hyderabad. After Indian independence in 1947, Hyderabad was incorporated as a federal state in India. When the Indian states were reorganized by the States Reorganization Act in 1956 , the southwestern part of Hyderabad with the Gulbarga district came to the state of Mysore created after the language borders of the Kannada (renamed Karnataka in 1973 ). In 2010 the area of ​​the Gulbarga district shrank when the Yadgir district was formed from its southern part .

population

Believers at the entrance of a dargah (Sufi shrine) in Gulbarga

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Gulbarga district has 2,564,892 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by 17.9 percent, a little faster than the average in Karnataka (15.7 percent). The population density, at 233 people per square kilometer, is well below the state average. (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). With Gulbarga, the district is home to the fourth largest city of Karnataka, but apart from Gulbarga City, the district is largely rural. At 32.5 percent, the urbanization rate is still below the mean value in Karnataka (38.6 percent). The literacy rate is below average: only 65.7 percent of the residents of the district can read and write (the average in Karnataka is 75.6 percent).

According to the 2001 census, Hindus made up 76.1 percent of the population in the Gulbarga district within its former borders (including today's Yadgir district) . There is also a larger Muslim minority of 17.6 percent. The Muslim population is mainly concentrated in the cities: Here they make up a third of the population. 4.9 percent of the residents of Gulbarga District are Buddhists . These are followers of the Dalit Buddhism founded in the 20th century by the social reformer BR Ambedkar , which is based in the neighboring state of Maharashtra, but is also widespread in the northernmost districts of Karnataka.

In addition to Kannada , the main language of Karnataka, Telugu and Marathi , the languages ​​of the two neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, and Urdu , which is common among the Muslim population as in most parts of the state , are also spoken in the Gulbarga district . Because of the high proportion of its speakers in the population, Urdu has the status of an associated official language in the Gulbarga district.

Cities

The following list also includes the cities that came to the newly established Yadgir District in 2010.

city	Population (2001)
Afzalpur	19,114
Aland	35,308
Bhimarayanagudi	4,791
Chincholi	17,158
Chitapur	26,974
Gulbarga	427.929
Gurmatkal	16,927
Jevargi	19,174
Kurgunta	8,584
Sedam	31,529
Shahabad	50,587
Shahabad ACC	6,974
Shahpur	29,556
Shorapur	43,591
Wadi	30,038
Wadi ACC	4,706
Yadgir	58,802

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. )
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 12: Einme to Gwalior. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 375-381 , keyword: Gulbarga District .

Web links

Commons : Gulbarga District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gulbarga District website