Dharmapuri district
The district Dharmapuri (Tamil: தர்மபுரி மாவட்டம் ) is a district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Dharmapuri.
Geography
The district Dharmapuri is located in the northern inland areas of Tamil Nadu and has an area of 4,527 square kilometers. Neighboring districts are in the north Krishnagiri, Tiruvannamalai in the east, Viluppuram in the Southeast, Salem in the south and Chamarajanagar in the West. The latter part of the neighboring Federal State of Karnataka.
In the West makes for a piece of the Kaveri River, the border of the district. In the course of the river Kaveri the Hogenakal Falls lie.
The district is divided into five Dharmapuri Dharmapuri taluks, Pennagaram, Palakkodu, Harur and Pappireddipatti.
History
The area of present-day Mysore district came at the end of the Third Mysore War under British rule. The British annexed the area as part of the district of Salem in the Province of Madras. After Indian independence, the area came in 1956 to the newly formed State of Madras (now Tamil Nadu ). The district Dharmapuri was formed in 1965 from the northern parts of the district of Salem. 2004 split from him in turn from the district Krishnagiri.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Dharmapuri has 1.5029 million inhabitants. Compared to the last census in 2001 the population had grown by 16.0 percent. The population density is 332 inhabitants per square kilometer below the average Tamil Nadu ( 555 inhabitants per square kilometer). The area is structured in a rural area: The rate of urbanization is one with 17.3 percent at the lowest Tamil Nadu. The literacy rate is 64.7 percent, the lowest in Tamil Nadu (mean 80.3 percent) and even lower than the all-India average of 74.0 per cent.
The population of the district of Dharmapuri in its former boundaries (including the territory of the district of Krishnagiri ) also represent the 2001 census Hindus with 94.2 percent of the vast majority. 4.3 percent of the population are Muslim, while Christians represent only a small minority of 1.4 per cent. 2.1 percent of the population are members of the tribal population ( Adivasis ). The two largest tribes are the Malayali with 31,000 and the Irular with 17,000 members.