Panchmahal district
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Panchmahal, also rendered as Panch Mahal, is a district in the eastern portion of
The district is located on the eastern end of the state. It is bordered by Dahod district to the north-east & east, Vadodara district to the southwest and Chhota Udaipur district to southeast, Kheda district to the west and Mahisagar district to the north.[2]
Name
Panch-mahal is a
History
The history of the Panchmahals district revolves around the city of
In October 1997, Dahod was split off as a new district with headquarters at the town of the same name.[4]
The district is the site of Godhra, where the 2002 Gujarat riots were incited from.
Economy
In 2006 the
The Panchmahal district is rich in forestry resources. In 2011, 23.26% of the total land area of the Panchmahal district was covered by forest. 97.80% of the forested area in Panchmahal was classified as reserved forest. Common trees in the forests of Panchmahal include mahuda, teak, and khakhra. Since 1989, the Forest Department has planted new trees throughout the district in order to increase the total forest area and counter deforestation.[4]
Panchmahal district is the largest producer of quartz, trap, and quartzite in Gujarat, for use as road material. Manganese ore is also commercially mined in Panchmahal; quartz and manganese are the two largest mineral resources in the district, with total production of the two combined exceeding 400,000 tonnes in 2011. Panchmahal also has the most extensive graphite deposits in the state of Gujarat, and there are granite quarries in several parts of the district.[4]
The main livestock animals in Panchmahal are
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1901 | 281,876 | — |
1911 | 364,424 | +2.60% |
1921 | 423,992 | +1.53% |
1931 | 504,580 | +1.76% |
1941 | 580,563 | +1.41% |
1951 | 694,054 | +1.80% |
1961 | 888,549 | +2.50% |
1971 | 1,106,441 | +2.22% |
1981 | 1,375,101 | +2.20% |
1991 | 1,682,333 | +2.04% |
2001 | 2,025,277 | +1.87% |
2011 | 2,390,776 | +1.67% |
source:[6] |
According to the
The divided district has a population of 1,642,268, of which 278,408 (16.95%) lived in urban areas. The divided district had a sex ratio of 948 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and
Hindus are 1,507,636 while Muslims are 125,235.[9]
At the time of the
Politics
District | No. | Constituency | Name | Party | Remarks | |
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Panchmahal | 124 | Shehra | Jethabhai Ahir | Bharatiya Janata Party | Deputy Speaker[11] | |
125 | Morva Hadaf (ST) | Nimishaben Suthar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
126 | Godhra | C. K. Raulji | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
127 | Kalol (Panchmahal) | Fatehsinh Chauhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
128 | Halol | Jaydrathsinhji Parmar | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Villages
References
- ^ a b c d e f "District Census Hand Book – Panchamahal" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ "Modi Announces Creation of New District". Outlook. September 10, 2012. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ Whitworth, George Clifford (1885). "An Anglo-Indian Dictionary: A Glossary of Indian Terms Used in English, and of Such English or Other Non-Indian Terms as Have Obtained Special Meanings in India".
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Census of India 2011: Gujarat District Census Handbook - Panch Mahals, Part A (Village and Town Directory)". Census 2011 India. pp. 13, 23–43. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ a b Ministry of Panchayati Raj (September 8, 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme" (PDF). National Institute of Rural Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in.
- ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on June 13, 2007. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
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- ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
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- ^ a b "Population by Religion - Gujarat". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Gujarat". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
External links and Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Panch Mahals". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 673. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Official website
- Geographic data related to Panchmahal district at OpenStreetMap