Tumkur
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State : | India | |
State : | Karnataka | |
District : | Tumkur | |
Sub-district : | Tumkur | |
Location : | 13 ° 21 ′ N , 77 ° 6 ′ E | |
Height : | 824 m | |
Area : | 48.6 km² | |
Residents : | 305,821 (2011) | |
Population density : | 6293 inhabitants / km² | |
Website : | www.tumkurcity.mrc.gov.in |
Tumkur , officially since 2014 Tumakuru ( Kannada : ತುಮಕೂರು Tumakūru ) is an industrial city in the southern Indian state of Karnataka , also known under the name Shaikshanika Nagari (the city of education) and Kalpatharu Nadu (the land of coconut palms ) with around 306,000 inhabitants (2011 census) .
It is located in the southeast of Karnataka around 70 kilometers northwest of the capital Bangalore . The city is the administrative seat of the Tumkur district .
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Karnataka in 2006, the state government decided, following a proposal by the writer UR Ananthamurthy , to change the English names of 13 cities in Karnataka to their Kannada name forms. As a result, Tumkur should be renamed Tumakuru . The Indian central government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh initially did not agree to the name change. Only under the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who was newly elected in 2014 , did the renaming officially take effect on November 1, 2014.
Web links
- Tumakuru City Corporation (City Council)
- Imperial Gazetteer of India. London 1908. Keyword: Tumkūr Town. Volume 24, p. 59.
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 154 kB)
- ^ S. Rajendran: Center mum on 'Bengaluru'. The Hindu , December 18, 2007, accessed October 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Mugdha Variyar: Bangalore, Mysore, Karnataka Other Cities to be Renamed on 1 November. International Business Times, October 18, 2014, accessed October 30, 2015 .