Kodagu (District)

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Kodagu
District ಕೊಡಗು
District map
State Karnataka
Division : Mysore
Administrative headquarters : Madikeri
Area : 4,109 km²
Residents : 554,762 (2011)
Population density : 135 inhabitants / km²
Website : kodagu.nic.in

Kodagu ( Kannada : ಕೊಡಗು Koḍagu ; formerly Anglicized Coorg ) is a district in the Indian state of Karnataka . The administrative center is the city of Madikeri .

geography

Mountain landscape in the Kodagu district

The Kodagu District is located in the Western Ghats in the southwest of Karnataka on the border with the neighboring state of Kerala . Neighboring districts are Dakshina Kannada in the northwest, Hassan in the north, Mysore in the east (all Karnataka) as well as in Kerala Wayanad in the south, Kannur in the southwest and Kasaragod in the west.

The area of ​​the Kodagu District is 4,109 square kilometers. The terrain is mountainous and partly still densely forested. The district capital Madikeri lies at 1,116 meters above sea level, to the east the landscape flattens out to around 800 meters. The highest mountains in the district are the Pushpagiri at 1,715 meters and the Kotebetta, not far from Madikeri, at 1,683 meters. The Kaveri River has its source in the Kodagu district .

The Kodagu District in the three taluks divided Madikeri, Virajpet and Somvarpet.

history

An independent Hindu principality had existed in the Kodagu region since the Middle Ages. This became a princely state under British sovereignty under the Anglicized name Coorg in 1790 . In 1834 Coorg was annexed and incorporated as a province in British India . The unusually small province continued to exist as a separate federal state after Indian independence. In the course of the reorganization of the Indian states according to the language borders ( States Reorganization Act ), Coorg was incorporated into the state of Mysore (since 1973 Karnataka) as the Kodagu district because of its predominantly Kannada-speaking population.

population

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Kodagu district has 554,762 inhabitants. In terms of population, it is by far the smallest district in Karnataka. The population density is also the lowest of all districts in the state with 135 inhabitants per square kilometer and is well below the average of Karnataka (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). The proportion of the urban population is also the lowest in the state at 14.6 percent (Karnataka's mean is 38.6 percent). The population development in Kodagu is stagnating: Compared to the last census in 2001, the population grew by only 1.1 percent, while the growth rate for the whole of Karnataka was 15.7 percent in the same period. At 78.0 percent, the literacy rate is slightly above the mean value in Karnataka (76.1 percent).

Plantation workers in Kodagu

According to the 2001 census , Hindus make up the majority of the residents of the district with 82.2 percent. There is also a larger minority of Muslims (14.3 percent) and a small Christian population (3.3 percent).

Kodagu District is ethnically and linguistically diverse. The largest group of the population are the Kannadigas, i. H. Spokesman for Karnataka's main language, Kannada . In addition to this, Kodagu is the home of the Kodava people . The Kodava have a distinct identity and culture of their own. Their language, also called Kodava , belongs to the Dravidian language family and has around 166,000 speakers. At the 1991 census, 35 percent of the Kodagu district's population said their mother tongue was Kodagu Kannada and 20 percent said Kodava was their first language. In addition, Malayalam , the language of the neighboring state of Kerala, and Tulu , another Dravidian regional language, are common in Kodagu . Urdu is different than in most parts of Karnataka, where the language is spoken by almost all Muslims in Kodagu hardly present Urdu-speakers account for only one-fifth of the Muslim minority Kodagus out. The 2001 census classified 8.4% of the district population as members of the tribal population ( scheduled tribes ; cf. Adivasi ). These are mostly members of the Yerava and Jenu Kuruba .

economy

Kodagu is a coffee growing center in India. Coffee is by far the most important agricultural product of Kodagu and is grown on around 87,800 hectares in the district. In addition, large areas of rice (34,600 ha), cardamom (12,700 ha), pepper (5,500 ha) and rubber (2,100 ha) are cultivated.

Cities

city Population
(2001)
Gonikoppal 7,251
Kushalnagar 13,262
Madikeri 32,286
Somvarpet 7,218
Virajpet 15.206

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the States Reorganization Commission, New Delhi 1955, p. 97.
  2. ↑ 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)
  3. ^ Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Kodagu (25), Karnataka (29). (PDF; 55 kB)
  4. ↑ KS Rajyashree "Kodava speech community: An ethnolinguistic study", in Language in India 1: 6 October 2,001th
  5. ↑ AR Fatihi: "Urdu in Karnataka", in: Language in India 2: 9 December of 2002.
  6. ↑ Website of the Kodagu District: General Information ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kodagu.nic.in
  7. ↑ 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. 3–51 , keyword: Coorg .

Web links

Commons : Kodagu district  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files