Gadag-Betigeri
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Gadag-Betageri is a town and a city municipal council in Gadag district
in the state of Karnataka
, India
. It is the administrative headquarters of Gadag District. The original city of Gadag and its sister city Betageri
(or Betgeri) have a combined city administration. The municipality of Gadag-Betageri has a population of 154,849 and an area of 54.56 km².
The twin city municipality is situated 80 km from Dharwad
and 60 km from Hubli, and lies on the Gutti-Vasco National Highway.
The Gadag style of Architecture marked by Ornate pillars with intricate
sculpture originated during the period of
the Western Chalukya (or Kalyani Chalukyas) king Someswara I, and it flourished for
a period of 150 years (During 1050 to 1200 CE) during which about 50 temples were built.
some of the examples are The Trikuteshwara temple (complex) at Gadag, Kasivisvesvara temple, Lakkundi
, Doddabasappa Temple
at Dambal
, Amriteshwara temple at Annigeri
.
Someshwara and Rameshwara temples, built in the Chalukya style, are also present.
Gadag immediately brings to mind the name of Naranappa, popularly known as Kumara Vyasa
, the author
of Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari
. It is the classic Mahabharata
in Kannada. Naranappa was born in the nearby village of Koliwada
. He composed his work sitting before Lord Veera Narayana, his chosen deity. The temples of Veera Narayana and Trikuteshwara http://www.nkpost.kar.nic.in/tourismgadag.htm are places of religious and historic importance.
The visually challenged singer Ganayogi Panchakshari Gawayi
hailed from Gadag. His music school
Veereshwara Punyashrama http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2212/stories/20050617000106500.htm is a renowned institution in north Karnataka
. It was headed by Panchakshari Gawayi's disciple, Ganayogi Puttaraj Gawai
till 2010, who was also visually challenged and died in late 2010.
Freedom Movement
, Gadag-Betageri had a population of 154,849. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Gadag-Betageri has an average literacy rate of 71%; male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 64%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
started the hospital in Betageri in 1902. For decades afterwards the hospital provided the only healthcare available. The Hospital is fondly called the “German” hospital by the local people, because of the German doctors who served here. The hospital is today the busiest in the district and serves as a referral centre. It is now run by Indian doctors and continues to provide quality and affordable care to its patients, who are mainly from the poor farming community in the surrounding villages. The Hospital has ICU
facilities and is equipped with the latest medical technologies including CT scan
at very affordable price. Private sector Gadag Scan Centre has state of art diagnostic facilities like CT scan, ultrasound with colour doppler, endoscopy, radiography and pathology lab with 24 hours emergency service.
and Bijapur
lie on the Gadag-Hotgi railway line. The Gadag-Hotgi railway track was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge in stages and completed in December 2008. Now broad gauge trains from Bangalore via Hospet and from Hubli run through Gadag to Bijapur and Solapur. It also connects the famous tourist centre of Hampi
with other parts of the country.Rayalaseema express which run from Hyderabad, Tirupathi and Kolapur.
Gadag District
Gadag District had a population of 971,952 of which 35.21% was urban as of 2001. Population increased 13.14% in the decade 1991-2001. The District is bounded on the north by Bagalkot District, on the east by Koppal District, on the southeast by Bellary District, on the southwest by Haveri...
in the state of Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It is the administrative headquarters of Gadag District. The original city of Gadag and its sister city Betageri
Betageri
Betageri is a village in Belgaum district in the southern state of Karnataka, India....
(or Betgeri) have a combined city administration. The municipality of Gadag-Betageri has a population of 154,849 and an area of 54.56 km².
The twin city municipality is situated 80 km from Dharwad
Dharwad
Dharwad, also known as Dharwar, is a city and a DISTRICT PLACE in India's Karnataka state.Dharwad is the administrative seat of the Dharwad District. The municipality of Hubli-Dharwad covers an area of 200.23 km²...
and 60 km from Hubli, and lies on the Gutti-Vasco National Highway.
Gadag style of Architecture
sculpture originated during the period of
the Western Chalukya (or Kalyani Chalukyas) king Someswara I, and it flourished for
a period of 150 years (During 1050 to 1200 CE) during which about 50 temples were built.
some of the examples are The Trikuteshwara temple (complex) at Gadag, Kasivisvesvara temple, Lakkundi
Kasivisvesvara temple, Lakkundi
The Kasivisvesvara temple and sometimes called Kashivishvanatha temple is located in Lakkundi , Karnataka state, India...
, Doddabasappa Temple
Doddabasappa Temple
The Doddabasappa Temple is a 12th century Western Chalukyan architectural innovation in Dambal, Karnataka state, India. The temple is about southeast of Gadag city and southwest of Ittagi in Koppal district. The sanctum contains a Shiva linga, the symbol of the presiding deity, God Shiva...
at Dambal
Dambal
Dambal is a village in the Gadag district of the state of Karnataka, India. It was an ancient center of Buddhism and remained so as late as the 12th century.Dambal is at an elevation of 590 metres and its population is 21,096.-History:...
, Amriteshwara temple at Annigeri
Annigeri
Annigeri is a town in Navalgund taluk of Dharwad district in the state of Karnataka, India, located 20 km west of Gadag en route to Hubli and 35 km from Hubli-Dharwad.-Introduction:...
.
Gadag inscription
- The Gadag inscription of Vikramaditya VIVikramaditya VIVikramaditya VI became the Western Chalukya King after deposing his elder brother Somesvara II. Vikramaditya's reign is marked by the start of the Chalukya-Vikrama era. Vikramaditya VI was the greatest of the Western Chalukya kings and had the longest reign in the dynasty. He earned the title...
, records that Taila took the head of Panchala by the terror of the pride of his arm in battle.
- The Gadag inscription reveals that the battle was fought on the bank of the Godavari riverGodavari RiverThe Godavari is a river that runs from western to southern India and is considered to be one of the big river basins in India. With a length of 1465 km, it is the second longest river in India , that runs within the country and also the longest river in South India...
and a certain Kesava (son of Madhava), fought in the battle and won Taila’s admiration.
- At the command of Sattiga (Satyasraya) in 1006 A.D., a Lenka Keta fell fighting at the battle of Unukallu, probably against the Cholas. A Gadag inscription, dated in Saka 930 (1008 A.D.) of the reign of Satyasraya refers to the siege of the agrahara Kaldugu in the Belvola 300 by Desinga and the destruction of the forces because of the treachery of king Perggade.
- The Gadag inscription of Ballala recounts his victory as And by force, he, the strong one, defeated with cavalry only, and deprived of his sovereignty, the general Brahmana whose army was strengthened by an array of elephants and who acquired 60 tusked elephants with a single tuskless elephant, when, on account of an insult, he was tearing the royal fortune from the family of the Kalachuris.
Tourism
- Trikuteshwara temple complex has triple shrines, once housing Shiva, Brahma and Surya. The Saraswathi temple has the finest shining decorative pillars, and the Saraswathi image, and is one of the largest examples of Chalukya art.
Someshwara and Rameshwara temples, built in the Chalukya style, are also present.
- Veeranarayana temple dates from the Chalukya era. The great Kannada poet Kumara VyasaKumara VyasaKumara Vyasa is the pen name of Gadhugina Veera Naranappa , a classical poet of Kannada. His pen name is a tribute to his magnum opus, a rendering of the Mahabharatha in Kannada. Kumara Vyasa literally means Little Vyasa or Son of Vyasa....
composed his famous Mahabharatha (known as Kumaravyasa Bharata or Gadugina Bharata) in this temple.
- Gadag also has a mosque dating from the Adilshahi era and a church. Betageri has many artistic hero stoneHero stoneHero stone is a memorial commemorating the honorable death of a hero in battle of Tamil People. A hero stone can display a variety of adornments, including bas relief panels, statues, and figures of carved stone...
s dating from the ninth and tenth centuries.
- Visit nearest famous tourist places like LakkundiLakkundiLakkundi in Gadag District of Karnataka is a tiny village on the way to Hampi from Hubli. Lakkundi 11 km from Gadag in the east...
, Mahadeva Temple (Itagi)Mahadeva Temple (Itagi)Itagi is in Yalburga Taluk, Koppal District, in North Karnataka, Karnataka, India. It is about 7 km from Kuknur. It is near to Lakkundi about 20 km.Itagi is famous for the Chalukya style Mahadeva Temple...
, LakshmeshwarLakshmeshwarLakshmeshwara is a town in Shirahatti taluk, Gadag district, North Karnataka, in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is about 50 km from Gadag and 55 km from Hubli. Lakshmeshwara is an agricultural trading town....
and Dambal.
Great Personalities of Gadag-Betgeri
- Kumara VyasaKumara VyasaKumara Vyasa is the pen name of Gadhugina Veera Naranappa , a classical poet of Kannada. His pen name is a tribute to his magnum opus, a rendering of the Mahabharatha in Kannada. Kumara Vyasa literally means Little Vyasa or Son of Vyasa....
Gadag immediately brings to mind the name of Naranappa, popularly known as Kumara Vyasa
Kumara Vyasa
Kumara Vyasa is the pen name of Gadhugina Veera Naranappa , a classical poet of Kannada. His pen name is a tribute to his magnum opus, a rendering of the Mahabharatha in Kannada. Kumara Vyasa literally means Little Vyasa or Son of Vyasa....
, the author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
of Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari
Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari
Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari is the Kannada version of the great Indian epic, Mahabharata. This is written by Kumara Vyasa. It has only the first 10 chapters of the original work....
. It is the classic Mahabharata
Mahabharata
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....
in Kannada. Naranappa was born in the nearby village of Koliwada
Koliwada
Koliwada refers to a colony of Kolis in India. Several places named Koliwada are located across the Mumbai city in India:* Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar * Juhu Koliwada* Koliwada, Madh-Fish market:...
. He composed his work sitting before Lord Veera Narayana, his chosen deity. The temples of Veera Narayana and Trikuteshwara http://www.nkpost.kar.nic.in/tourismgadag.htm are places of religious and historic importance.
- Ganayogi Panchakshari GawayiGanayogi Panchakshari GawayiGanayogi Panchakshara Gawai was a blind singer from Gadag, a town in southern state of Karnataka, India. He was born at Kadashettihalli in Hangal Taluk, Karnataka. His school Veereshwara Punyashrama was a premier learning center for Hindustani Music. The kannada film Ganayogi Panchakshari Gavayi...
The visually challenged singer Ganayogi Panchakshari Gawayi
Ganayogi Panchakshari Gawayi
Ganayogi Panchakshara Gawai was a blind singer from Gadag, a town in southern state of Karnataka, India. He was born at Kadashettihalli in Hangal Taluk, Karnataka. His school Veereshwara Punyashrama was a premier learning center for Hindustani Music. The kannada film Ganayogi Panchakshari Gavayi...
hailed from Gadag. His music school
Music school
The term music school refers to an educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music.Different terms refer to this concept such as school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department or conservatory.Music instruction can be provided...
Veereshwara Punyashrama http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2212/stories/20050617000106500.htm is a renowned institution in north Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
. It was headed by Panchakshari Gawayi's disciple, Ganayogi Puttaraj Gawai
Puttaraj Gawai
Pandit Puttaraj Gawai is an Indian musician in the Hindustani classical tradition, a scholar who has authored more than 80 books in Kannada, Sanskrit and Hindi, a music teacher and a social servant...
till 2010, who was also visually challenged and died in late 2010.
- Gadag has been an important seat of Hindustani music in North KarnatakaNorth KarnatakaNorth Karnataka is an arid plateau from elevation in the Karnataka state of southwest India. It is drained by the Krishna River and its tributaries the Bhima, Ghataprabha, Malaprabha, and Tungabhadra...
, and is home to the Hindustani singer Bharat RatnaBharat RatnaBharat Ratna is the Republic of India's highest civilian award, awarded for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as "recognition of public service of the highest order." Unlike knights, holders of the Bharat Ratna...
Pandit Bhimsen JoshiBhimsen JoshiPandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana , he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music...
.
- CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er Sunil JoshiSunil JoshiSunil Bandacharya Joshi is a former Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls slow left arm spin and bats left-handed. He used to travel 40 miles to Hubli each morning for practice, and then return to his native town of Gadag in time for school...
was born in Gadag.
- cyclist Neelamma Malligwad she also born in gadag Dist
Freedom Movement
- This is also the land of great Freedom Fighters Like Narayan Rao Huilgon and Shankar Rao Kampli who along with other Freedom fighters founded "Azad Hind Seva Dal" which contributed a lot to the nations struggle for freedom.
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...
, Gadag-Betageri had a population of 154,849. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Gadag-Betageri has an average literacy rate of 71%; male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 64%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Healthcare infrastructure
Advanced diagnostic facilities are now available in the cityleading to improved patient care. The Basel MissionBasel Mission
The Basel Mission is a Christian missionary society active from 1815 to 2001, when it was merged into Mission 21, the successor organization of Kooperation Evangelischer Kirchen und Missione founded in 2001....
started the hospital in Betageri in 1902. For decades afterwards the hospital provided the only healthcare available. The Hospital is fondly called the “German” hospital by the local people, because of the German doctors who served here. The hospital is today the busiest in the district and serves as a referral centre. It is now run by Indian doctors and continues to provide quality and affordable care to its patients, who are mainly from the poor farming community in the surrounding villages. The Hospital has ICU
Intensive Care Unit
thumb|220px|ICU roomAn intensive-care unit , critical-care unit , intensive-therapy unit/intensive-treatment unit is a specialized department in a hospital that provides intensive-care medicine...
facilities and is equipped with the latest medical technologies including CT scan
Computed tomography
X-ray computed tomography or Computer tomography , is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing...
at very affordable price. Private sector Gadag Scan Centre has state of art diagnostic facilities like CT scan, ultrasound with colour doppler, endoscopy, radiography and pathology lab with 24 hours emergency service.
Transport
Gadag is a junction station on Hubli-Hospet-Guntukal railway line. It connects to Hotgi junction on Pune-Solapur-Wadi railway line. Major tourist centres like BadamiBadami
Badami , formerly known as Vatapi, is a town and headquarters of a taluk by the same name, in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. It was the regal capital of the Badami Chalukyas from 540 to 757 AD. It is famous for rock cut and other structural temples...
and Bijapur
Bijapur, Karnataka
Bijapur Urdu:بیجاپور city is the district headquarters of Bijapur District of Karnataka state. Bijapur city is well known for its historical monuments of architectural importance built during the rule of Adil Shahi dynasty...
lie on the Gadag-Hotgi railway line. The Gadag-Hotgi railway track was converted from metre gauge to broad gauge in stages and completed in December 2008. Now broad gauge trains from Bangalore via Hospet and from Hubli run through Gadag to Bijapur and Solapur. It also connects the famous tourist centre of Hampi
Hampi
Hampi is a village in northern Karnataka state, India. It is located within the ruins of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Predating the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other...
with other parts of the country.Rayalaseema express which run from Hyderabad, Tirupathi and Kolapur.
Education
Gadag has been a renowned centre of learning, with many famous high schools, colleges These include:- Adarsh Sikshan Samiti Commerce College, Gadag - Betageri.
- C.D.O Jain English Medium School
- IID's Jaycee Primary and High School, Gadag Betageri.
- St John's primary & High School,Health camp, Gadag Betageri.
- Rajasthan jain English medium school . gadag
- Loyola Convent and High School, Health camp, Gadag Betageri.
- Tontadarya College of Engineering (Started 1997)
- Municipal High School (Started 1885)
- Jagdguru Tontadarya Primary School
- Puttaraj gavais Institutions (For Blind)
- VDSTC Boys High School Gadag
- J.T.College Gadag
- S. A. Manvi Law College
- V.D.S.T.C
- V.D.S.J.N.FINE ART COLLEGE, K.C.Rani road,Gadag.(Started 1880)
- B.A.V. Sarvoday primory School Kalasapur road,Gadag.(Started 2000)
- Anjuman - E - Islam Polytechnic, Mulgund Road, 582103 (Started 1983)