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Bali
Bali (Rajasthani
: बाली) is a city and a municipality
in Pali district
in the state
of Rajasthan
, India
.
The town is situated on the left bank of the Mithari
river. This walled town was the headquarters of a district having the same name in the Jodhpur State. Bali is a tehsil
and Panchayat Samiti
with the same name. Bali is also a sub-divisions among the 6 sub-divisions of the Pali district
.
obtained from a Jain guru in Sanderao
gives the earliest description of founding of Bali town. The scroll mentions that on the sack of Valabhi city in Gujarat, thirty thousand Jain families abandoned Valabhi and led by their priests found a retreat for themselves in Marwar
, where they erected the towns of Sandrao, Bali and Nadol in 524 AD. It was the heart of the Godwar
area in 11th century. It was also a town where regular horse fair was held to trade the horses. King Sarubali Baldev won the land of Bali in a battle in 1240 AD and he crowned the area his royal capital, naming it Bali after himself. Legends say that the Pandava
children used to play childhood games in this area and a water well still exists which was formed by Bhima
, one of the Pandava
s. In 1608 AD King Balasingh constructed the Fort of Bali to protect the city and a wall was built around the city edges to protect it from attack. The town planning is based on ancient geometrical, astrological and architectural laws. The marriage of Rana Udai Singh, father of legendary hero Maharana Pratap, was solemnized with the daughter of the Rao of Jalor at Bali.
A dispensary was established in this town in March 1896. In 1897, it served 17 in-patients and 4166 out-patients and 318 operations were performed in it. In 1900 there was a plague outbreak in town and the town was evacuated.1245 deaths occurred during the month of January 1900 as a result of diarrhoea, dysentry and pneumonia.Prior to formation of Rajasthan it was headquarter of a district with same name in erstwhile Jodhpur state. Bali had its own Municipality even before independence. It had a middle school in the year 1932 that was upgraded to high school and in 1946 had more than 200 pupils. In 1960 Bali had three primary schools for boys, one primary school for girls and a high school. The telephone arrived in Bali in the year 1957, it got electricity in the year 1961 and piped water connections were given in the year 1970. A tehsil library was established in the center of Bali in Bawari Jav in the year 1958. In addition Bali also has a Jain library.
. It is a constituency of Pali district
. It has an average elevation of 298 metres (977 feet). In the east it has Aravali Hills and fort of Kumbalgrah is visible from Bali. In North it has two rocky Hillocks where temples of Hinglaj Mata
and Dantiwara are located respectively. The Mithari river is seasonal and flows only during the rainy season.
The nearest railway station on the network of Indian Railways to reach is Falna
and Rani
. The nearest airport is Udaipur
.
, Bali had a population of 19,879. Males constitute 50% (9,996) of the population and females 50% (9,883). Bali has an average literacy rate of 65%, lower than the national average of 74.04%; with 75.6% of the males and 54.5% of females literate. 11.5% of the population is under 6 years of age. In the year 1897 its population was about 6000. The majority of population of Bali consists of Jain community, which is also the most prosperous community. However most members of this community have settled elsewhere in India, where they carry out business and visit their ancestral town mostly to perform marriages in the family.
The Bali Assembly constituency
is one of the six Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
constituencies in Pali district
. In the past, it has also elected the former Chief Minister
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
as their MLA in 1993 and 1998.
s and two municipalities, Falna
and itself. Gram Panchayats are Amaliya, Barwa
, Bedal, Bera, Bhandar, Bhatund, Bheetwara, Bhimana, Bijapur,sela, Bisalpur, Boya, Chamunderi, Dhani-Sela
, Doodni, Falna Gaon, Goriya, Guralas, Kakardi, Khimel
, Kotbaliyan, Kothar, Koyalwao, Kumtiya, Kuran, Latara, Lunawa
, Lundara, Malnoo, Mirgeshwar, Mokampura, Mundara
, Nana
, Paderla, Peepla, Perwa, Sena, Sesli, Sewari
and Shivtalao. . The tehsil has an area of about 1304.26 square kilometres.
Population of the tehsil is 2,23,027 (2001 census). Out of which 1,83,802 is rural while 39,225 is urban. Male constitutes 1,11,572 and female population is 1,11,455. The tehsil has a good population of tribes.
"The Fabindia
School" was established here in 1992, which is today a co-educational, senior secondary school with 1000 students including 40% girls. The name of the Head of the Institution is Ms Parinita Ranpal.
temple located outside the town on the bank of river Mithri has very pleasant surrounding. The fort has an ancient temple of Sitala mata
.
Bali (Rajasthani
Rajasthani language
Rajasthani Rajasthani Rajasthani (Devanagari: , Perso-Arabic: is a language of the Indo-Aryan languages family. It is spoken by 50 million people in Rajasthan and other states of India and in some areas of Pakistan. The number of speakers may be up to 80 million worldwide...
: बाली) is a city and a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...
in the state
States and territories of India
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of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India
India
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.
The town is situated on the left bank of the Mithari
Mithari
Mithari is a river in Pali district originates from Aravalli Range in Pali district only. It vanishes in Jalore district near Sankhwali village. Bali, India and Falna comes in its basin. Temple Nimbeshwar is on the bank of Mithri river only....
river. This walled town was the headquarters of a district having the same name in the Jodhpur State. Bali is a tehsil
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....
and Panchayat Samiti
Panchayat samiti
Panchayat samiti is a local government body at the tehsil or Taluka level in India. It works for the villages of the Tehsil or Taluka that together are called a Development Block. The Panchayat Samiti is the link between the Gram Panchayat and the district administration. There are a number of...
with the same name. Bali is also a sub-divisions among the 6 sub-divisions of the Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...
.
History
Bali is an ancient city. A Jain scroll which Colonel James TodJames Tod
Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod was an English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar.Tod was born in London and educated in Scotland, later joining the East India Company as a military officer. He travelled to India in 1799 as a cadet in the Bengal Army where he rose...
obtained from a Jain guru in Sanderao
Sanderao
Sanderao is a village in Pali district of Rajasthan state in India. It lies 16 km north west of Bali town. It was founded by Yasobhadra in the tenth century. This place was governed by Sisodia rulers of Udaipur. There is a holy 5000 years old pilgrimage " Nimbeshvara Mahadeva ". Many visit...
gives the earliest description of founding of Bali town. The scroll mentions that on the sack of Valabhi city in Gujarat, thirty thousand Jain families abandoned Valabhi and led by their priests found a retreat for themselves in Marwar
Marwar
Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. In Rajasthani dialect "wad" means a particular area. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is 'The region of desert'., The Imperial Gazetteer...
, where they erected the towns of Sandrao, Bali and Nadol in 524 AD. It was the heart of the Godwar
Godwar
Gorwar or Godwad, is a region of Rajasthan state in India, which lies in the southwest Rajasthan and borders with the state of Gujarat.-Geography:...
area in 11th century. It was also a town where regular horse fair was held to trade the horses. King Sarubali Baldev won the land of Bali in a battle in 1240 AD and he crowned the area his royal capital, naming it Bali after himself. Legends say that the Pandava
Pandava
In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu , by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Although, Karna is told by Lord Krishna that according to the laws and ethics he is the first son of Kunti making...
children used to play childhood games in this area and a water well still exists which was formed by Bhima
Bhima
In the Mahābhārata, Bhima is one of the central characters of Mahabharata and the second of the Pandava brothers...
, one of the Pandava
Pandava
In the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu , by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Although, Karna is told by Lord Krishna that according to the laws and ethics he is the first son of Kunti making...
s. In 1608 AD King Balasingh constructed the Fort of Bali to protect the city and a wall was built around the city edges to protect it from attack. The town planning is based on ancient geometrical, astrological and architectural laws. The marriage of Rana Udai Singh, father of legendary hero Maharana Pratap, was solemnized with the daughter of the Rao of Jalor at Bali.
A dispensary was established in this town in March 1896. In 1897, it served 17 in-patients and 4166 out-patients and 318 operations were performed in it. In 1900 there was a plague outbreak in town and the town was evacuated.1245 deaths occurred during the month of January 1900 as a result of diarrhoea, dysentry and pneumonia.Prior to formation of Rajasthan it was headquarter of a district with same name in erstwhile Jodhpur state. Bali had its own Municipality even before independence. It had a middle school in the year 1932 that was upgraded to high school and in 1946 had more than 200 pupils. In 1960 Bali had three primary schools for boys, one primary school for girls and a high school. The telephone arrived in Bali in the year 1957, it got electricity in the year 1961 and piped water connections were given in the year 1970. A tehsil library was established in the center of Bali in Bawari Jav in the year 1958. In addition Bali also has a Jain library.
Geography
Bali is located at 25.18°N 73.28°E near the Aravalli rangeAravalli Range
The Aravalli Range literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northeast to southwest across states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh...
. It is a constituency of Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...
. It has an average elevation of 298 metres (977 feet). In the east it has Aravali Hills and fort of Kumbalgrah is visible from Bali. In North it has two rocky Hillocks where temples of Hinglaj Mata
Hinglaj mata
Hinglaj Mata is a Hindu temple in Hinglaj, on the Makran coast in the Lyari district of Balochistan in Pakistan. It is one of the Shakti Peethas of Goddess Sati....
and Dantiwara are located respectively. The Mithari river is seasonal and flows only during the rainy season.
The nearest railway station on the network of Indian Railways to reach is Falna
Falna
Falna is a town in Pali District in Indian state of Rajasthan. It is an important railway station on Ahmedabad-Jaipur railway line. Falna is 75 km from the district headquarter of Pali....
and Rani
Rani, Rajasthan
Rani is a city and a municipality in Pali district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It lies on the Sukari River, a tributary of the Luni. It is an important railway station on Ahmedabad-Delhi railway line....
. The nearest airport is Udaipur
Udaipur
Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...
.
Demographics
India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Bali had a population of 19,879. Males constitute 50% (9,996) of the population and females 50% (9,883). Bali has an average literacy rate of 65%, lower than the national average of 74.04%; with 75.6% of the males and 54.5% of females literate. 11.5% of the population is under 6 years of age. In the year 1897 its population was about 6000. The majority of population of Bali consists of Jain community, which is also the most prosperous community. However most members of this community have settled elsewhere in India, where they carry out business and visit their ancestral town mostly to perform marriages in the family.
The Bali Assembly constituency
Bali (Rajasthan Assembly constituency)
Bali Legislative Assembly constituency is one of the six Rajasthan Legislative Assembly constituencies in Pali district of Rajasthan state in western India. Bali Legislative Assembly segment is part of Pali Lok Sabha constituency....
is one of the six Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly or the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated in Jaipur — the capital of the state. Members of the Legislative assembly are directly elected by the people. Presently, the legislative assembly...
constituencies in Pali district
Pali district
Pali District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Pali is the district headquarters.-History:...
. In the past, it has also elected the former Chief Minister
Chief Minister
A Chief Minister is the elected head of government of a sub-national state, provinces of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, notably a state of India, a territory of Australia or a British Overseas Territory that has attained self-government...
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat was the 11th Vice-President of India. He served in that position from August 2002, when he was elected to a five-year term by the electoral college following the death of Krishan Kant, until he resigned on July 21, 2007, after losing the presidential election to Pratibha...
as their MLA in 1993 and 1998.
As a tehsil
Bali tehsil has 93 villages under 39 Gram PanchayatGram panchayat
Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300...
s and two municipalities, Falna
Falna
Falna is a town in Pali District in Indian state of Rajasthan. It is an important railway station on Ahmedabad-Jaipur railway line. Falna is 75 km from the district headquarter of Pali....
and itself. Gram Panchayats are Amaliya, Barwa
Barwa, Rajasthan
Barwa is a village located in the Bali tehsil of Pali district of Rajasthan state, amidst the Aravalli Range.-Demographics:The population of Barwa is 2,874 according to the 2001 census, where male population is 1,396 and female population is 1,478....
, Bedal, Bera, Bhandar, Bhatund, Bheetwara, Bhimana, Bijapur,sela, Bisalpur, Boya, Chamunderi, Dhani-Sela
Dhani-Sela
Dhani [hindi: धणी] is a village located in the Bali tehsil in the Pali district of Rajasthan. It is located near Bali town on state highway SH 62 between Khudala and Khimel in a valley on the western side of the Aravalli Range. Dhani is easily accessed by Western Railway Ahmedabad Delhi route near...
, Doodni, Falna Gaon, Goriya, Guralas, Kakardi, Khimel
Khimel
khimel is a village in Pali district, near Rani, Rajasthan, India.khimel is divided into two parts first is village and second is dhani most of people from there are shifted to Mumbai for their business...
, Kotbaliyan, Kothar, Koyalwao, Kumtiya, Kuran, Latara, Lunawa
Lunawa, Rajasthan
Lunawa is a village located in the Bali tehsil of Pali district of Rajasthan state, amidst the Aravalli Range.-Demographics:The population of Lunawa is 4,998 according to the 2001 census...
, Lundara, Malnoo, Mirgeshwar, Mokampura, Mundara
Mundara
Mundara Koorang is an Australian Aboriginal artist, designer, teacher, elder, actor, and author.-Biography:Mundara was born in 1952 in the Eora NSW area and is a descendant of the Gamilaroi people...
, Nana
Nana, Pali
Nana is a village in the Bali, India tehsil of Pali District of the Rajasthan state in India. It is located three kilometres from the railway station of the same name on the Ahmedabad-Ajmer railway line.-History:...
, Paderla, Peepla, Perwa, Sena, Sesli, Sewari
Sewari
Sewari or Sewadi is a village located in the Bali tehsil of Pali district of Rajasthan state, amidst the Aravalli Range. There is also a dam nearby with the same name.-Demographics:...
and Shivtalao. . The tehsil has an area of about 1304.26 square kilometres.
Population of the tehsil is 2,23,027 (2001 census). Out of which 1,83,802 is rural while 39,225 is urban. Male constitutes 1,11,572 and female population is 1,11,455. The tehsil has a good population of tribes.
"The Fabindia
Fabindia
Fabindia is an Indian chain store retailing garments, furnishings, fabrics and ethnic products handmade by craftspeople across rural India...
School" was established here in 1992, which is today a co-educational, senior secondary school with 1000 students including 40% girls. The name of the Head of the Institution is Ms Parinita Ranpal.
Temples
Bali has several temples belonging to different communities. There are various beautifully carved temples within the town. Prominent among these are the temples of Manmohan Parsavnathji, Chandraprabhuji, Vimalnathji, Dharmnathji, Charbhujaji, Mataji, Hanumanji and Thakurji. The two Jain temples in town have very intricate architecture. A HanumanHanuman
Hanuman , is a Hindu deity, who is an ardent devotee of Rama, a central character in the Indian epic Ramayana and one of the dearest devotees of lord Rama. A general among the vanaras, an ape-like race of forest-dwellers, Hanuman is an incarnation of the divine and a disciple of Lord Rama in the...
temple located outside the town on the bank of river Mithri has very pleasant surrounding. The fort has an ancient temple of Sitala mata
Shitala Devi
Shitala , also called Sitala , is a Hindu goddess widely worshipped in North India, West Bengal, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan as the pox-goddess. Shitala Devi literally means the cold Goddess.-Name and variants:...
.