| Voice of South Kannada
: Shashidhar Kodikal
South Kannada
District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 4560.0 Km2
Population in South KANNADA (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 20,83,625
Male : 10,32,577
Female : 10,51,048
Under 6 population
Total : 2,02,670
Male : 1,04,169
Female : 98,501
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 37999
In seeing : 19851
In speech : 3272
In hearing : 1638
In movement : 7829
Mental : 5409
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 402
Sex Ratio Rank : 551
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 239 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About South Kannada District
About District
Alupas ruled the DK district till 14th century.
Later the district had been divided into small pieces and Bairas,
Choutas, Ajilas ruled independently or under the Vijayanagara rule.
Later it came under Keladi administration but in 1763, after Hyderali
defeated Keladi rulers, he took over Coastal Karnataka and handed
over it to his son Tippu Sultan. But in 1799 the Shrirangapattana
was taken over by British and with this even Dakshina Kannada had
gone to British. They merged both Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada
and brought it under Madras presidency. Later in 1862, due to certain
political compulsions, they divided the district and Uttara Kannada
was transferred to Bombay presidency. Dakshina Kannada district,
known as Kanara district remained with Madras presidency. History
reveals that it was on July 8, 1799, Kanara Revenue district was
formed and Major Munroe was the first district collector. In 1896
it had included only Mangalore, Kundapura, Uppinangadi and Kasargod
taluks. In 1912 even Karkala Taluk was merged with Dakshina Kannada.
In 1954 Belthangady taluk was brought under this district. Till
1956 the district was with Madras province and after formation of
Karnataka state in 1956, November 1, DK district had become part
of Karnataka. In 1966 Puttur taluk had been divided into Puttur
and Sullia. Till 1998, the district included Udupi, Karkala and
Kundapura taluks with it. But after bifurcation of the district
into Udupi and Dakhshina Kannada for administrative purpose, these
three taluks have gone to Udupi. But culture, tradition and emotional
bond of the people still remains the same. The district had responded
actively to the Freedom struggle. As part of the struggle national
leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Annie Besant and others had
visited the district and had addressed the public gatherings. The
great freedom fighters like Karnad Sadashiva Rao, N S Kille, R S
Shenoy, Kota Ramakrishna Karanth, and many others participated actively
in the freedom movement. In addition the newspapers like Rashtrabandhu,
Navayuga and many other newspapers published articles encouraging
the people to take up freedom movement.
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