| Voice of Palamu : Deelip
Kumar Chaubey
• Shortage of water & electricity
• Road Infrastructure is weak
• People are illiterate and that why they lack awareness
• Government should ensure to build schools in all the villages
of Palamau
• Mostly men are addicted to various addictions
• We get electricity only for few hours. This affects in cultivation.
Palamu District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 8705.0 Km2
Population in Palamu (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1936319
Male : 1003876
Female : 932443
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 54799
In seeing : 27121
In speech : 3445
In hearing : 2377
In movement : 15711
Mental : 6145
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 72
Sex Ratio Rank : 267
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 131 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 544 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
District affected by Left Wing Extremism
Brief About Palamu District
Early History
The early history of PALAMU is not authentic but we have legends
about it. It is, however certain that kharwars, oraons and cheros,
the three aboriginal races practically ruled over the tract. The
kharwars claim to be suryavanshi Kshatriyas. They trace their decent
from Ajanagara or Ayodhya. Karusa was the sixth son of Manu Vaivasata
and he was assigned the eastern territory. The descendants of Karusa
were called Karusas who subsequently came to be known as Karwars
or kharwars. According to tradition they were the rulers of Rohtasgarh.
The kharawars point to the days of the Pratapadhaval, one of the
line of chiefs who ruled there in the twelfth century A.D., during
the time of their greatest prosperity.
The cheros have been spoken in very high terms
in the Aitareya Aranyaka along with the Vangas and Magadhas. They
did not observe the Vedic sacrifices and still they are termed as
revered cheros ‘cheropadas. There is not much evidence to show that
the Cheros came to this region from Kumaun as some think.
The Mandas claim decent from Karusas. The Ramayana
records their flight to the south. Some say that these aboriginals
played the band at the time of Rama’s coronation at Ayodhya and
they were assigned this region in lieu of their meritorious services.
The Pandawas killed Jarasandha – an ally of the Mand . Naturally
in the Mahabharat war the Mandas sided with the kauravas and were
in the army of Bhisma. Sanjaya says that on the left wing of Bhisma
are the Karusas with the Mandas, Vikunja and Kundivarsa Satyiki
compares the Mandas with the demons and boasts that he would put
an end them just as Indra ended the demons . Arjuna is said to have
married a Naga princess from this region and Babhruvahana was born
of this lady.
Palamu an Introduction
The District of palamu lies between 23 degree 50’
and 24 degree 8’ north latitude and between 83 degree 55’ and 84
degree 30’ east longitude. It contains an area of 5043.8 square
Kms. The administrative head quarter is Daltonganj situated on koel
river in 24 degree 3’ north and 84 degree 4’ east. Daltonganj has
taken its name after colonel Dalton, commissioner of Chhotangapur
in 1861. The distance between Daltonganj and Ranchi is 165 Km. Old
Palamu District is divided in three Districts.
(1) Palamau
(2) Garhwa
(3) LateharOrigin of name
The Origin of the name Palamu is doubtful. According to on account,
it is derived from the Hindi word palana, to lee and means “a place
of refuse”. Another suggestions is that the name is combination
of Pala meaning “ forst” and mu the patois is root for “dead “ the
whole word meaning “dead from frost”, parts of the District being
liable during the winter months to severe frosts . Both these explanations
however must be regarded as purely speculative. Another suggestion
is that Palamau is a Dravidian name, that it may be a corruption
of Pall– amm –u , Pall meaning “tooth “ amm (which when combined
with another main assumes the form am) meaning “water”. While a
is kind of genitive or possessive case meaning “village”, “ Country
“ ,”fortress “etc. In support of this theory, it may be mentioned
that the name is spelt Palamau is the vernacular and was originally
applied to the village which was the seat of the chero chiefs, and
in which theirs forts were built.
BOUNDRIESThe district is bainded north by the river Son which separates
it from the districts of Rohtas, and by the district Aurangabad
(Bihar), on the east by the district of Chatra and Hazaribagh, on
the south by the district Latehar on the west by the district Garhwa
and Chhatisgarh state.
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