Tumkur

Tumkur
State :	India
State :	Karnataka
District :	Tumkur
Sub-district :	Tumkur
Location :	13 ° 21 ′  N , 77 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 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

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

• Tumakuru City Corporation (City Council)
• Imperial Gazetteer of India. London 1908. Keyword: Tumkūr Town. Volume 24, p. 59.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals. Cities having population 1 lakh and above. (PDF; 154 kB)
2. ^ S. Rajendran: Center mum on 'Bengaluru'. The Hindu , December 18, 2007, accessed October 30, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Mugdha Variyar: Bangalore, Mysore, Karnataka Other Cities to be Renamed on 1 November. International Business Times, October 18, 2014, accessed October 30, 2015 .