Kodagu district
Kodagu ( Kannada: ಕೊಡಗು Kodagu, formerly anglicised Coorg ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the town of Madikeri.
Geography
The district lies in the Western Ghats in Kodagu of Karnataka on the southwest border of the neighboring Federal state of Kerala. Neighboring districts of Dakshina Kannada are in the northwest, Hassan in the north, Mysore in the East ( all Karnataka ) and Wayanad in Kerala in the south, Kannur Kasaragod in the southwest and the west.
The area of the district of Kodagu is 4,109 square kilometers. The terrain is mountainous and partly still densely forested. The district capital, Madikeri is at 1,116 meters above Meersesspiegel, to the east the landscape flattens out to around 800 meters from. The highest mountains in the district area are the Pushpagiri with 1,715 meters and located near Madikeri Kotebetta with 1,683 meters. In the district of Kodagu the Kaveri River originates.
The district Kodagu is divided into three taluks Madikeri, Virajpet and Somvarpet.
History
In the region of Kodagu since the Middle Ages was an independent Hindu principality. This was under the anglicized name of Coorg in 1790 to a princely state under British suzerainty. 1834 Coorg was annexed and incorporated as a province in British India. The unusually small province was after the Indian independence, first as a separate state on. As part of the reorganization of the Indian states according to linguistic boundaries ( States Reorganization Act ) Coorg in 1956 the State of Mysore incorporated because of its predominantly kannadasprachigen population as Kodagu district ( Karnataka since 1973 ).
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Kodagu has 554 762 inhabitants. In terms of population, it is by far the smallest district of Karnataka. The population density is 135 inhabitants per square kilometer, the lowest of all the districts of the state and is well below the average of Karnataka (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). Similarly, the proportion of urban population with 14.6 percent of the lowest of the state (the average of Karnataka is 38.6 percent). The population development in Kodagu is stagnant: Compared to the last census in 2001 the population grew only by 1.1 percent, while the growth rate for the whole of Karnataka during the same period was 15.7 percent. The literacy rate is 78.0 percent slightly above the mean of Karnataka ( 76.1 per cent).
The population of the district make Hindus according to the 2001 census 82.2 per cent majority. In addition, there is a larger minority of Muslims ( 14.3 per cent ) and a small Christian population share (3.3 percent ).
The district Kodagu has an ethnic and linguistic diversity. The largest of these are the Kannadigas, namely speakers of Karnataka's main language Kannada. In addition, is Kodagu is home to the people of Kodava. The Kodava have a distinct identity and culture. Their language, which is also called Kodava, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and has around 166,000 speakers. At the 1991 census, 35 percent of the population of the district, Kodagu Kannada and 20 percent said Kodava as their native language. In addition, in Kodagu Malayalam, the language of the neighboring state of Kerala, and Tulu, a Dravidian regional language more widespread. Urdu is different than in most parts of Karnataka, where the language is spoken by almost all Muslims, hardly present in Kodagu: Urdu - speakers make up only one fifth of the Muslim minority Kodagus. The 2001 census classified 8.4% of the district population as members of the tribal population ( scheduled tribes; see Adivasi ). This is mostly to members of the Yerava and Jenu Kuruba.
Economy
Kodagu is a center of coffee production in India. Coffee is by far the most important agricultural product Kodagus and is grown in the district area to around 87,800 hectares. In addition to a large area of rice ( 34,600 ha), cultivated cardamom ( 12,700 ha) and pepper ( 5,500 ha) and rubber ( 2,100 ha).