Hassan district
The district Hassan ( Kannada: ಹಾಸನ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Hassan.
Geography
The district Hassan is inland in the south Karnataka. Neighboring districts are Tumkur in the east, in the southeast of Mandya, Mysore in the south, Kodagu in the southwest, Dakshina Kannada and Chikmagalur in the west to the northwest.
The area of the district Hassan has an area of 6,805 square kilometers and lies on the border of two landscape areas: in the west, the district share of the Western Ghats, situated in the Malnad region. Here the terrain is mountainous and partly still densely forested. The highest elevation is the Jenkalabetta mountain with 1,389 meters above sea level. The eastern part of the district belongs to the region Maidan, which occupies the southern part of the Deccan plateau. Here the landscape is a gently undulating, characterized by fields and pastures plateau with an average altitude of 600 to 900 meters, from the rise only isolated mountains such as the 1,009 -meter-high Indragiri at Shravanabelagola. The district area is drained by the Hemavati River. The climate is moderated by the altitude. Received Located in the Western Ghats Parts of the district during the southwest monsoon intensity rainfall.
The district Hassan is divided into the eight taluks Alur, Arkalgud, Arsikere, Belur, Channarayapattana, Hassan, Holenarsipur and Sakleshpur.
History
The earliest historical accounts of the area now Hassan district rich in the 3rd century BC back. The Mauryan king Chandragupta should then have made the pilgrimage to his conversion to Jainism after Shravanabelagola and fasted to death there. Later, the area of the Kadamba and the Ganga was dominated. In the 12th century Hoysala ( Halebid today ) made the location in present-day district Hassan Dorasamudra their capital and waved to the dominant power in the southern Deccan. In the 14th century the Hoysala Empire collapsed by the invasion of Islamic forces of the Sultanate of Delhi. Shortly thereafter, the area came under the rule of the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire in the 17th century after all, it was conquered by the Rajas of Mysore.
During the British colonial era Mysore was a nominally independent princely state under British suzerainty. Since that time there has been Hassan district as an administrative unit. After Indian independence Mysore took place in 1949 following the Indian Union. The reorganization of the Indian states of Hassan district in 1956 to a portion of the jobs created by the language barriers of the Kannada State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Hassan has 1,776,221 inhabitants. The population growth is low: between 2001 and 2011, the population ( 15.7 percent) grew significantly lower than in the central Karnataka only by 3.2 percent,. The population density is 261 inhabitants per square kilometer below the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 21.2 percent of the population of the district Hassan live in cities. The degree of urbanization is thus lower than the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy ratio, which was 75.9 percent of the average de state ( 76.1 percent).
The population of the district make Hindus according to the 2001 census 92.2 percent, a large majority. To profess Islam 6.1 percent of the population. Other religions do not play a significant role: the Christian population is 0.9 per cent low, and the Jains are hardly represented with a population demographically 0.3 percent, despite the presence of an important sanctuary in Shravanabelgola.
Attractions
The district Hassan has a high density of important cultural and historical sights. At the heyday of the Hoysala Empire in the 12th and 13th centuries remind the temples of Halebid and Belur. Halebid, once known Dorasamudra the capital of Hoysala, is now an insignificant village, where only remember the end of the 12th century built Hoysaleshwara Temple and several smaller shrines to the former importance of the place. The Chennakeshava temple of Belur was started in 1116. As the Hoysaleshwara Temple he is richly decorated with intricate relief decoration. The temples of Halebid and Belur are next to the Keshava temple of Somnathpur as highlights of Hoysala architecture.
In Shravanabelagola is one of the most important shrines of the Jain religion. The main attraction for pilgrims and tourists originating from the 10th century colossal statue of the Jain saint Gomateshwara. The 17.50 -meter-high statue is surrounded by temples on the top of Indragiri Hill. Other Jain temple from the period between the 9th and 12th centuries are on the summit of the neighboring Chandragiri Hill.