Yavatmal District
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Yavatmal district (formerly Yeotmal) is a district
of the India
n state of Maharashtra
. It is located in the region of Vidarbha
, in the east-central part of the state. Yavatmal
town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
province, was part of the legendary kingdom
of Vidarbha
mentioned in the Mahabharata
. Berar also formed part of the Mauryan Empire during the reign of Ashoka
(272 to 231 BCE). Berar later came under the rule of the Satavahana
dynasty (2nd century BCE–2nd century CE), the Vakataka
dynasty (3rd to 6th centuries), the Chalukya dynasty (6th to 8th centuries), the Rashtrakuta
dynasty (8th to 10th centuries), the Western Chalukya (10th to 12th centuries), and finally the Yadava dynasty of Devagiri (late 12th to early 14th centuries). A period of Muslim
rule began when Ala ud din Khilji, Sultan of Delhi
, conquered the region in the early 14th century. The region was part of the Bahmani Sultanate
, which broke away from the Delhi Sultanate in the mid-14th century. The Bahmani Sultanate broke up into smaller sultanates at the end of the 15th century, and in 1572 Berar became part of the Nizam Shahi sultanate, based at Ahmednagar. The Nizam Shahis ceded Berar to the Mughal Empire
in 1595. As Mughal rule started to unravel at the start of the 18th century, Asaf Jah I, Nizam
of Hyderabad
seized the southern provinces of the empire (including Berar) in 1724, forming an independent state.
A detailed account of Berar
was added to the Ain-i-Akbari in 1596-97, immediately after the treaty of Ahmadnagar under which the province was ceded to the empire, and as the Moghal officers cannot have had time, before the account was written, to settle the province and readjust boundaries of its administrative divisions we may regard this description as an account of the province as it was administered by the Nizam Sahi and Imad Sahi kings, and probably also by the Bahamanis. It was divided into thirteen sarkars or revenue districts. The Yavatmal district comprised the greater part of Akbar's sarkars of Kalam and Mahur. But some few mahals of these sarkars lay beyond the present limits of the district. Yavatmal appears in the record as the headquarters of a pargana under the name of Yot-Lohara, Yot being the Urdu or Persian corruption of Yevata, the original name of the town; and Lohara the name of a village about three miles to the west of Yavatmal. The suffix mal is a corruption of mahal (pargana-town). A rough estimate makes the land revenue demand in Akbar's time for the area now occupied by the district rather more than ten lakhs of rupees: but this estimate is rather under than over the mark, while it is certain that collection must always have fallen far short of the nominal demand.
In 1853, the district together with the rest of Berar came under the administration of the British East India Company
. Berar was divided into East and West Berar with Yavatmal district being included in East Berar. In 1864, Yavatmal along with some other talukas was formed into the district initially called Southeast Berar and later renamed Wani. In 1903, Berar was leased by the Nizam of Hyderabad to the British Government of India.
, to the northeast by Wardha District
, to the east by Chandrapur District
, to the south by Andhra Pradesh
state and Nanded District
, to the southwest by Hingoli District
, and to the west by Washim District
.
Cotton
and wheat
are the predominant crops grown in the district. The chief rivers flowing through the district are the Wardha
and the Penganga. The Wardha is the only river flowing through the district which is partly navigable. The Bembla and the Nirguda are the main perennial tributaries
of the Wardha which flow through the district. Adan
is other important river in this area.
, which corresponds to the former British Raj
province of Berar
.
Yavatmal district comprises sixteen tehsils namely Arni
, Umarkhed
, Kalamb
, Pandharkawada(Kelapur
), Ghatanji
, Zari Jamani
, Darwha
, Digras
, Ner
, Pusad, Babhulgaon
, Mahagaon
, Maregaon
, Yavatmal
, Ralegaon
and Wani
, Akola Bazar
being another important town in the district.
There are seven Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
constituencies in this district, namely Wani
, Ralegaon (ST)
, Yavatmal (ST)
, Digras
, Arni (ST)
, Pusad
and Umarkhed (SC)
.
Wani and Arni Vidhan Sabha constituencies are part of Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency
. Umarkhed Vidhan Sabha constituency is part of Hingoli Lok Sabha constituency
. Ralegaon, Digras, Yavatmal and Pusad Vidhan Sabha constituencies are part of Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha constituency. Yavatmal
town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
Yavatmal district has a population
of 2,775,457, roughly equal to the nation of Jamaica
or the US state of Utah
. This gives it a ranking of 141st in India (out of a total of 640
). The district has a population density of 204 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate
over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.9 %. Yavatmal has a sex ratio
of 947 females
for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate
of 80.7 %.
As per Census of 2001, 81% of the people are Hindu
, 9% Buddhist and 8% Muslim
.
, an Indo-Aryan
language spoken by 100 000 people.
Marathi
is the major language. Other languages spoken are Banjari
, Gondi
and Kolami
. The dialect
used here is known as the Berar dialect.
are the main produce of the district. Cotton
and teakwood are the chief exports of the district. Other items exported include lime
, wooden furniture and oranges
.
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
named Yavatmal one of the country's 250 most backward districts
(out of a total of 640
). It is one of the twelve districts in Maharashtra currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
District
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of the 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...
n state of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
. It is located in the region of Vidarbha
Vidarbha
Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...
, in the east-central part of the state. Yavatmal
Yavatmal
Yavatmal is a city and municipal council of the Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The name derives from the Marathi Yavat and mal .-Demographics:yavatmal ,district in Amravati administrative division....
town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
History
It is believed that Yavatmal, along with the rest of the erstwhile BerarBerar Province
Berar Province, known also as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, was a province of British India. The province, formerly ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad, was administered by the British after 1853, although the Nizam retained formal sovereignty over the province...
province, was part of the legendary kingdom
Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which the office of head of state is usually held until death or abdication and is often hereditary and includes a royal house. In some cases, the monarch is elected...
of Vidarbha
Vidarbha
Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...
mentioned in the 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....
. Berar also formed part of the Mauryan Empire during the reign of Ashoka
Ashoka
Ashok Maurya or Ashoka , popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca. 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests...
(272 to 231 BCE). Berar later came under the rule of the Satavahana
Satavahana
The Sātavāhana Empire or Andhra Empire, was a royal Indian dynasty based from Dharanikota and Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh as well as Junnar and Prathisthan in Maharashtra. The territory of the empire covered much of India from 230 BCE onward...
dynasty (2nd century BCE–2nd century CE), the Vakataka
Vakataka
The Vākāṭakas were a royal Indian dynasty that originated from the Deccan in the mid-third century CE. Their kingdom is believed to have extended from the southern edges of Malwa and Gujarat in the north to the Tungabhadra River in the south as well as from the Arabian Sea in the western to the...
dynasty (3rd to 6th centuries), the Chalukya dynasty (6th to 8th centuries), the Rashtrakuta
Rashtrakuta
The Rashtrakuta Empire was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian Subcontinent between the sixth and the 10th centuries. During this period they ruled as several closely related, but individual clans. Rastrakutas in inscriptions represented as descendants of Satyaki, a Yadava well known...
dynasty (8th to 10th centuries), the Western Chalukya (10th to 12th centuries), and finally the Yadava dynasty of Devagiri (late 12th to early 14th centuries). A period of Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
rule began when Ala ud din Khilji, Sultan of Delhi
Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived, Delhi based kingdoms or sultanates, of Turkic origin in medieval India. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was replaced by the Mughal dynasty...
, conquered the region in the early 14th century. The region was part of the Bahmani Sultanate
Bahmani Sultanate
The Bahmani Sultanate was a Muslim state of the Deccan in southern India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms...
, which broke away from the Delhi Sultanate in the mid-14th century. The Bahmani Sultanate broke up into smaller sultanates at the end of the 15th century, and in 1572 Berar became part of the Nizam Shahi sultanate, based at Ahmednagar. The Nizam Shahis ceded Berar to the Mughal Empire
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire , or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...
in 1595. As Mughal rule started to unravel at the start of the 18th century, Asaf Jah I, Nizam
Nizam
Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad popularly known as Nizams of Hyderabad was a former monarchy of the Hyderabad State, now in the states of Andhra Pradesh , Karnataka , and Maharashtra in India...
of Hyderabad
Hyderabad State
-After Indian independence :When India gained independence in 1947 and Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the British left the local rulers of the princely states the choice of whether to join one of the new dominions or to remain independent...
seized the southern provinces of the empire (including Berar) in 1724, forming an independent state.
A detailed account of Berar
Berar Subah
-Origin of name:According to the Ain-i-Akbari, the original name of Berar was Waradatat .-History:Before the Mughal occupation, Berar was part of the Nizam Shahi sultanate of Ahmadnagar. It was ceded to the emperor Akbar by Chand Bibi in 1596, unable to stand against the imperial forces led by...
was added to the Ain-i-Akbari in 1596-97, immediately after the treaty of Ahmadnagar under which the province was ceded to the empire, and as the Moghal officers cannot have had time, before the account was written, to settle the province and readjust boundaries of its administrative divisions we may regard this description as an account of the province as it was administered by the Nizam Sahi and Imad Sahi kings, and probably also by the Bahamanis. It was divided into thirteen sarkars or revenue districts. The Yavatmal district comprised the greater part of Akbar's sarkars of Kalam and Mahur. But some few mahals of these sarkars lay beyond the present limits of the district. Yavatmal appears in the record as the headquarters of a pargana under the name of Yot-Lohara, Yot being the Urdu or Persian corruption of Yevata, the original name of the town; and Lohara the name of a village about three miles to the west of Yavatmal. The suffix mal is a corruption of mahal (pargana-town). A rough estimate makes the land revenue demand in Akbar's time for the area now occupied by the district rather more than ten lakhs of rupees: but this estimate is rather under than over the mark, while it is certain that collection must always have fallen far short of the nominal demand.
In 1853, the district together with the rest of Berar came under the administration of the British East India Company
British East India Company
The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
. Berar was divided into East and West Berar with Yavatmal district being included in East Berar. In 1864, Yavatmal along with some other talukas was formed into the district initially called Southeast Berar and later renamed Wani. In 1903, Berar was leased by the Nizam of Hyderabad to the British Government of India.
Geography
Yavatmal district is bounded on the north by Amravati DistrictAmravati district
Amravati district is a district of Maharashtra state in central India. Amravati is the administrative headquarters of the district.The district is situated between 20°32' and 21°46' north latitudes and 76°37' and 78°27' east longitudes. The district occupies an area of 12,235 km²...
, to the northeast by Wardha District
Wardha District
Wardha district is one of the 35 districts in Maharashtra state in western India. This district is a part of Nagpur Division. The city of Wardha is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district had a population of 1,236,736 of which 26.28% were urban as of 2001.-History:The History...
, to the east by Chandrapur District
Chandrapur District
Chandrapur District is a district in Nagpur Division of the Indian state of Maharashtra.It is located at the boundary of Andhrapradesh. The district was formerly known as Chanda District. In 1964, it was renamed as Chandrapur. It was the largest district in India until it was split into the...
, to the south by Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
state and Nanded District
Nanded District
Nanded district is a district of Maharashtra state in central India. The city of Nanded is the district headquarters.- Overview :The district has an area of 10,502 km² while according to 2001 census its population is 2,876,259 of which 23.96% were urban...
, to the southwest by Hingoli District
Hingoli district
Hingoli district is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Hingoli. The district occupies an area of 4,526 km² and has a population of 987,160 of which 15.60% were urban . This district is part of Aurangabad division...
, and to the west by Washim District
Washim district
Washim is a district in Maharashtra, India. The headquarters is at Washim. The area of the district is 5,150 km².-Demography and Geography:...
.
Cotton
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
and wheat
Wheat
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
are the predominant crops grown in the district. The chief rivers flowing through the district are the Wardha
Wardha River
- Origin :Wardha originates at an altitude of 777 meters Satpura Range near Multai in Betul District of Madhya Pradesh.- Course :From the origin it flows 32 km in Madhya pradesh and then enters into Maharastra. After traversing 528 km, it joins Wainganga together called Pranhita, which ultimately...
and the Penganga. The Wardha is the only river flowing through the district which is partly navigable. The Bembla and the Nirguda are the main perennial tributaries
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of the Wardha which flow through the district. Adan
Adan River
The Adan River is a river in India and a principal tributary of the Painganga River.-Statistics:*The river flows from Long 770.22’ Lat 200.17’ to long 780.21’ Lat 190.9’.*The length of this river is 209.21 km....
is other important river in this area.
Divisions
Yavatmal District forms the southeast corner of Amravati DivisionAmravati Division
Amravati division is one of the six administrative divisions of Maharashtra state in India. Amravati and Nagpur divisions constitute the ancient Vidarbha region...
, which corresponds to the former British Raj
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
province of Berar
Berar Province
Berar Province, known also as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, was a province of British India. The province, formerly ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad, was administered by the British after 1853, although the Nizam retained formal sovereignty over the province...
.
Yavatmal district comprises sixteen tehsils namely Arni
Arni, Maharashtra
Arni is a taluka place in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra State in India. It is situated on the bank of Arunavati River.Arni is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district...
, Umarkhed
Umarkhed
Umarkhed is a small town and a municipal council in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Umarkhed is located at . It has an average elevation of 416 metres ....
, Kalamb
Kalamb
Kalamb is a village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra state in India. It is famous today for its temple devoted to the Hindu god Ganesha. The temple is known as Shree Chintamani Temple, based on another name for Ganesh that emphasizes the belief that praying to him can remove worries...
, Pandharkawada(Kelapur
Kelapur
Kelapur is a census town, tehsil and subdivision of Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India.It is located on Varanasi - Nagpur - Hyderabad - Bangalore - Kanyakumari National Highway 7....
), Ghatanji
Ghatanji
Ghatanji is a very old city and municipal council in Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is also known as Cotton City, because in this area farmer produces fine quality of cottons. It is also a place of pilgrimage of Brahmalin Shree Sant Maroti Maharaj having Devasthan near...
, Zari Jamani
Zari Jamani
Zari Jamani or Zari Jamni is a town in Wani Subdivision of Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.- References :...
, Darwha
Darwha
Darwha is a town and a municipal council in Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Demographics: India census, Darwha had a population of 23,360. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Darwha has an average literacy rate of 80%, higher than the national average of...
, Digras
Digras
Digras is a town and a municipal council in Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India.- Geography :The city is surrounded by the Khandai and Bhavani hills. Town experiences both hottest summer and colder winter. The temperature rises till 48 degrees Celsius in Summer while in winter it...
, Ner
Ner
The Ner is a river in central Poland, with sources to the south east of Łódź. It is one of the tributaries of the Warta River....
, Pusad, Babhulgaon
Babhulgaon
Babhulgaon is a census town and tehsil in Yavatmal subdivision of Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Demographics: India census, Babhulgaon had a population of 6600. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Babhulgaon has an average literacy rate of 47%, lower...
, Mahagaon
Mahagaon
Mahagaon is a census town and tehsil in Pusad subdivision of Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India....
, Maregaon
Maregaon
Maregaon is a town in Wani Subdivision of Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.Maregaon is a small town on Wani yavatmal road nearly 20 km from Wani. Major profession is agriculture. It has black cotton soil which is suitable for Cotton and soyabean which are important crops in...
, Yavatmal
Yavatmal
Yavatmal is a city and municipal council of the Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The name derives from the Marathi Yavat and mal .-Demographics:yavatmal ,district in Amravati administrative division....
, Ralegaon
Ralegaon
Ralegaon is a census town and tehsil in the Kelapur subdivision of Yavatmal district in the state of Maharashtra, India....
and Wani
Wani
Wain/Wani may mean:*Vani , a child marriage custom in tribal areas of Pakistan*Wani, Maharashtra, a city and a municipal council in Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra...
, Akola Bazar
Akola bazar
Akola Bazar is a small town in Yavatmal district. It is called as Akola Bazar because of the weekly market held on every Friday.-Demographics:...
being another important town in the district.
There are seven Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha
The Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha or the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is situated in the Nariman Point area of South Mumbai in the capital Mumbai...
constituencies in this district, namely Wani
Wani (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Wani is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district....
, Ralegaon (ST)
Ralegaon (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Ralegaon is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district. It is reserved for Schduled Tribe candidate....
, Yavatmal (ST)
Yavatmal (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Yavatmal is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district. It is reserved for Schduled Tribe candidate....
, Digras
Digras (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Digras is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district....
, Arni (ST)
Arni (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Arni is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district. It is reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidate....
, Pusad
Pusad (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Pusad is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district....
and Umarkhed (SC)
Umarkhed (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Umarkhed is one of the 288 constituencies of Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha and one of the seven which are located in Yavatmal district...
.
Wani and Arni Vidhan Sabha constituencies are part of Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency
Chandrapur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Chandrapur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India. This constituency is spread over Chandrapur and Yavatmal districts....
. Umarkhed Vidhan Sabha constituency is part of Hingoli Lok Sabha constituency
Hingoli (Lok Sabha constituency)
Hingoli Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India.-Assembly segments:...
. Ralegaon, Digras, Yavatmal and Pusad Vidhan Sabha constituencies are part of Yavatmal-Washim Lok Sabha constituency. Yavatmal
Yavatmal
Yavatmal is a city and municipal council of the Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The name derives from the Marathi Yavat and mal .-Demographics:yavatmal ,district in Amravati administrative division....
town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census2011 census of India
The 15th Indian National census was conducted in two phases, houselisting and population enumeration. Houselisting phase began on April 1, 2010 and involved collection of information about all buildings...
Yavatmal district has a population
Demographics of India
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of 2,775,457, roughly equal to the nation of Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
or the US state of Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
. This gives it a ranking of 141st in India (out of a total of 640
Districts of India
A district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. Districts are further subdivided, in some cases into Sub-Divisions, and otherwise directly into tehsils or talukas.District officials include:...
). The district has a population density of 204 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate
Family planning in India
Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. In the 1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage has more than tripled and the fertility rate has more than halved , but the national fertility rate is still high enough to cause long-term population growth...
over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.9 %. Yavatmal has a sex ratio
Sex ratio
Sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms....
of 947 females
Women in India
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful...
for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate
Literacy in India
Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate grew to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. Although this was a greater than sixfold improvement, the level is well below the world average literacy rate of 84%, and India currently has the...
of 80.7 %.
As per Census of 2001, 81% of the people are Hindu
Hindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
, 9% Buddhist and 8% Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
.
Languages
Languages used in the district include AndhAndh language
The Andh language, also known as Andhi, is spoken by somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 Andhs in India.The language is unclassified. Although these numbers sound substantial, it appears Andh may be losing ground with many Andhs speaking Marathi at home....
, an Indo-Aryan
Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages constitutes a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family...
language spoken by 100 000 people.
Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
is the major language. Other languages spoken are Banjari
Banjari
Banjari are a scheduled tribe in Orissa, India. They are part of Banjara ethnic group....
, Gondi
Gondi language
Gondi is spoken by the Gondi people. It is a Central-Dravidian language, spoken by about two million people chiefly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattishgarh and in various adjoining areas of neighbouring states...
and Kolami
Kolami language
Kolami is a tribal Central Dravidian language used in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states of India. It takes route from the central branch of Dravidian Language tree and falls under Kolami–Paraji group of languages....
. The dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
used here is known as the Berar dialect.
Economy
Jowar and cottonCotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
are the main produce of the district. Cotton
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....
and teakwood are the chief exports of the district. Other items exported include lime
Lime (mineral)
Lime is a general term for calcium-containing inorganic materials, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides predominate. Strictly speaking, lime is calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name for a single mineral of the CaO composition, occurring very rarely...
, wooden furniture and oranges
Orange (fruit)
An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....
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In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a branch of the Government of India looking after the ongoing process of decentralization and local governance in the States....
named Yavatmal one of the country's 250 most backward districts
Poverty in India
Poverty is widespread in India, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate, 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of 1.25 a day...
(out of a total of 640
Districts of India
A district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. Districts are further subdivided, in some cases into Sub-Divisions, and otherwise directly into tehsils or talukas.District officials include:...
). It is one of the twelve districts in Maharashtra currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).