Chitradurga district
The district Chitradurga ( Kannada: ಚಿತ್ರದುರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, also: Chitradurg, formerly anglicised Chitaldroog ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Chitradurga.
Geography
The district is located in Chitradurga Zentralkarnataka on the border with the state of Andhra Pradesh. Neighboring districts are in the southeast of Tumkur, Chikmagalur in the southwest, Davanagere in the northwest, Bellary in the north ( all belonging to Karnataka ) and Anantapur ( Andhra Pradesh ) in the east.
The area of the district of Chitradurga is 8,428 square kilometers. The district area belongs to the southern part of the Deccan Plateau and presents itself as a plateau from which rise isolated hills. From south to north of the river Vedavathi ( Hagari ), a tributary of the Tungabhadra, by the district Chitradurga flows.
The district Chitradurga is divided into six taluks Challakere, Chitradurga, Hiriyur, Holalkere, Hosadurga and Molakalmuru.
History
The discovery of edicts of Ashoka in Chitradurga district shows that the area of present-day district in the 3rd century BC was part of the Maurya empire. Later, the area was under the rule of changing dynasties like the Rashtrakutas, Chalukya and Hoysala. After the invasion of the Delhi Sultanate in the 14th century Chitradurga finally came to the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire. In the 15th century the kings of Vijayanagar military governors ( Nayaks ) put you in Chitradurga, which enlarged the Fort Chitradurga and made themselves independently in the 16th century after the fall of Vijayanagar. 1779 conquered Hyder Ali, the fort and made the area of Chitradurga become an integral part of the Kingdom of Mysore.
After the Mysore Wars Mysore became a nominally sovereign princely state under British suzerainty. During the British colonial period, the district Chitradurga was established as one of the districts of Mysore. After Indian independence Mysore took place in 1949 following the Indian Union. The reorganization of the Indian states as part of the States Reorganization Act of Chitradurga district in 1956 to a portion of the jobs created by the language barriers of the Kannada State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ). 1997 split from the district Davanagere district of Chitradurga as an independent.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Chitradurga has 1,660,378 inhabitants. Compared to the last 2001 census, the population was 9.4 percent and thus lower than the average grown Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). The population density is 197 inhabitants per square kilometer below the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). The district Chitradurga is clearly influenced rural: only 19.8 percent of the population lives in cities, while it is 38.6 percent across Karnataka. The literacy rate is at 73.8 percent is slightly lower than the average of Karnataka ( 76.1 per cent).
The population of the district make Hindus according to the 2001 census 91.5 percent, a large majority. To Islam professes a minority of 7.2 percent. The 2001 census classified 17.5 percent of the district population as members of the tribal population (see Adivasi ). These are almost exclusively members of the tribe of Naikda.
Besides Kannada, the main language of Karnataka, and Urdu, which is spoken as in most parts of Karnataka by the majority of Muslims, is in the district of Chitradurga also Telugu, the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh spread.