Raichur (District)

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Raichur District
ರಾಯಚೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ
District map
State Karnataka
Division : Gulbarga
Administrative headquarters : Raichur
Area : 8,442 km²
Residents : 1,924,773 (2011)
Population density : 228 people / km²
Website : raichur.nic.in

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

geography

Bridge over the Krishna River at Shaktinagar

The district of Raichur is located in the northeast of Karnataka on the border with the neighboring states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh . Neighboring districts are Bellary in the south, Koppal in the southwest, Bagalkot in the west, Bijapur in the northwest, Yadgir in the north (all Karnataka) and Mahbubnagar (Telangana) in the northeast and Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh) in the southeast.

The area of ​​the Raichur district is 8,442 square kilometers. The district area belongs to the highlands of Dekkan and lies at an altitude of 400 to 500 meters above sea level. The boundaries of the district form the Krishna , one of the largest rivers in South India, in the north , and its main tributary Tungabhadra in the south . The alluvial land between the two rivers is called the Doab of Raichur.

The Raichur district is divided into the five taluks Lingsugur, Devadurga, Raichur, Manvi and Sindhnur.

history

During the British colonial era, the Raichur district was one of the districts of Hyderabad , a nominally independent princely state under British sovereignty. In 1853 the Raichur district was ceded to the British, but returned to Hyderabad in 1860. After Indian independence in 1947, Hyderabad was incorporated into India. In 1956, the States Reorganization Act restructured the Indian states according to language boundaries. The Raichur district came together with the southwest of Hyderabad to the Kannada-speaking state of Mysore (renamed Karnataka in 1973 ). The eastern Taluk Alampur was separated because of its predominantly Telugu- speaking population and added to the Mahbubnagar district of the state of Andhra Pradesh . In 1998, the Raichur District continued to shrink when the Koppal District was formed from its western parts .

population

According to the 2011 Indian census, the Raichur district has 1,924,773 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population grew by 15.3 percent, which is roughly the same as the average in Karnataka (15.7 percent). The population density of 228 inhabitants per square kilometer is below the state average (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 25.3 percent of the district's population live in cities. The proportion of the urban population is lower than the state mean (38.6 percent). The literacy rate is well below average: only 60.5 percent of the residents of the Raichur district can read and write, while the average in Karnataka is 76.1 percent.

According to the 2001 census, Hindus make up the majority of the inhabitants of the Raichur district with 84.9 percent. There is also a Muslim minority of 13.7 percent. In addition to Kannada , the main language of Karnataka, Urdu , which is spoken by Muslims like in most parts of Karnataka, and Telugu , the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh, are also common in the Raichur district . In the Taluk Raichur of the Raichur 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)
Devadurga 21,992
Hatti 12,419
Hatti gold mines 14,716
Lingsugur 27.301
Manvi 37,555
Mudgal 19,117
Raichur 205,634
Shaktinagar 18,983
Sindhnur 61,292

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 )

Web links

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

literature

  • The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 21: Pushkar to Salween. New edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 38–44 , keyword Raichūr district .


Coordinates: 16 ° 13 '  N , 77 ° 21'  E