Gulbarga district

The district Gulbarga ( Kannada: ಗುಲ್ಬರ್ಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Council is based in the eponymous city of Gulbarga.

Geography

The district Gulbarga is located in northeastern Karnataka on the border with the neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Neighboring districts are Bidar ( Karnataka ) in the north, Medak in the northeast, Rangareddy in the east, Mahbubnagar in the southeast (all Andhra Pradesh ), Yadgir in the South, Bijapur in the southwest (both Karnataka ) and Solapur and Osmanabad in the Northwest (both Maharashtra ).

With an area of ​​11,008 square kilometers, the district Gulbarga is the second largest district of Karnataka. Its territory is part of the Deccan Plateau and has an average elevation of 400 to 600 meters above sea level. In the north, on the border of Bidar district, a chain of hills runs through the district area, otherwise there is the terrain as flat plateau dar. The main river in the district of Gulbarga, the Bhima, a tributary of the Krishna.

The district Gulbarga is divided into seven taluks Aland, Afzalpur, Gulbarga, Chincholi, Sedam, Chitapur and Jevargi.

History

The area of present-day Gulbarga district was during its early history under the control of changing dynasties. Beginning of the 14th century began in Gulbarga by the conquest by the Delhi Sultanate Muslim rule period. 1345 to split the Bahmani Sultanate of Gulbarga with from the capital of the Sultanate of Delhi and finally developed into a major power factor in the Deccan. At the turn of the 15th and 16th century, the Bahmani Sultanate disintegrated but by internal conflicts and split into the five Deccan sultanates -. The area of Gulbarga came here in the Sultanate of Bijapur, before it was conquered by the Mughal Empire Aurangzeb 1657. 1724 came Gulbarga turn to Hyderabad, which had split off under Asaf Jah I. from the Mughal Empire. During the British colonial era Hyderabad became a nominally independent princely state under British suzerainty.

The district Gulbarga was established in 1873 as the administrative unit of the princely state of Hyderabad. After the Indian independence in 1947 Hyderabad was incorporated as a federal state in India. In 1956, when the Indian states were regrouped by the States Reorganisation Act, the south-western part of Hyderabad came with the district Gulbarga in the structures created by the language barriers of the Kannada State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ). 2010, reduced the area of the district Gulbarga, as the district Yadgir was formed from its southern part.

Population

According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Gulbarga has 2,564,892 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population ( 15.7 percent ) grew by 17.9 percent, slightly faster than in the central Karnataka. The population density is 233 inhabitants per square kilometer, but well below the average in the state. (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). With Gulbarga district is home to the fourth largest city of Karnataka, away from Gulbarga city of the district is largely rural but marked. Thus, the urbanization rate is still 32.5 percent below the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy rate is below average: Only 65.7 percent of the residents of the district can read and write (the average of Karnataka is 75.6 percent).

According to the 2001 census presented in Gulbarga district in its former boundaries (including the present-day district Yadgir ) Hindus with 76.1 percent of the population majority. In addition, there is a greater Muslim minority of 17.6 percent. The Muslim population is concentrated mainly on the cities: Here they represent one-third of the population. 4.9 percent of the population of the district Gulbarga are Buddhists. This is substantiated by the followers of BR Ambedkar social reformers in the 20th century Dalit Buddhism, which has its base in the neighboring federal state of Maharashtra, but is also common in the northern districts of Karnataka.

Besides Kannada, the main language of Karnataka are in the district of Gulbarga also Telugu and Marathi, the languages ​​of the two neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, as well as Urdu, which is common as in most parts of the state under the Muslim population, spoken. Because of the high proportion of the population of its speakers Urdu has in Gulbarga district the status of a coordinate official language.

Cities

The list also includes the cities who came to the newly created Yadgir district in 2010.