Ballari is located at 15°09′N76°56′E / 15.15°N 76.93°E / 15.15; 76.93. The city stands in the midst of a wide, level plain of black cotton soil.[9]Granite rocks and hills form a prominent feature of Ballari. The city is spread mainly around two hills of granite composition, the Ballari Hill and the Kumbara Gudda.
Ballari Hill has a circumference of nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) and a height of 480 feet (150 m). The length of this rock from north-east to south-west is about 1,150 ft (350 m). To the east and south lies an irregular heap of boulders, to the west there is an unbroken monolith, and the north is walled by bare, rugged ridges.[9]
Kumbara Gudda looks like the profile of a human face from the south-east. It is also known as Face Hill.[9]
Climateedit
Climate data for Bellary (1981–2010, extremes 1901–2012)
According to the 2011 Census of India, the urban population of Ballari was 410,445; of whom 206,149 were male and 204,296 female. 280,610 of the population were literate and 52,413 of the population were under 7 years of age.[14] The population in 2001 was recorded as 316,766.[15]
Kannada is the largest language, spoken by 42.06% of the population. Telugu is the second-largest, spoken by 25.03%, and Urdu 24.35%. 3.04% of the population spoke Hindi, 1.75% Marathi and 1.69% Tamil.[15][16]
Economyedit
Industriesedit
Textiles and garmentsedit
Cotton processing
With cotton being one of the major agricultural crops around Ballari historically, the city has had a thriving cotton processing industry in the form of ginning, spinning and weaving plants. The earliest steam cotton-spinning mill was established in 1894, which by 1901 had 17,800 spindles, and employed 520 hands.[9]
The city continues to thrive in this sector with one spinning mill and numerous cotton ginning and pressing mills, hand looms and power looms.[17]
Garment manufacture
Ballari has a historic garment industry dating back to the First World War period, when the Marathi speaking "Darji" (tailor) community with its native skills in tailoring migrated from the current Maharashtra region to stitch uniforms for the soldiers of the colonial British Indian Army stationed at Ballari. After the war, the community switched to making uniforms for school children, and gradually the uniforms made here became popular all over the country.[18][19]
Currently, Ballari is well known for its branded and unbranded denim garments, with brands like Point Blank, Walker, Dragonfly and Podium being successfully marketed nationally and internationally.[19] There are about 260 denim garment units in Ballari with nearly 3000 families working in these units.[17]
A. Sabhapathy Mudaliar – Philanthropist; The Women & Children's Hospital or The District Hospital was initially named after him, following his donation of land and building to the hospital.[9]
B Nagendra - Youth Welfare and Sports Minister of Karnataka
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External linksedit
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Official website of Ballari City Corporation
January 01, 1970
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This article is about the city in Karnataka India For other uses see Ballari District This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Ballari news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Ballari officially Bellary 5 in the eponymous Ballari district is a city in the state of Karnataka India Ballari BellaryCity CorporationBellary FortBallariLocation in Karnataka IndiaShow map of KarnatakaBallariBallari India Show map of IndiaCoordinates 15 06 N 76 55 E 15 100 N 76 917 E 15 100 76 917CountryIndiaStateKarnatakaRegionHyderabad Karnataka DeccanDistrictBellaryGovernment TypeMunicipal Corporation BodyBallari City Corporation MayorShwetha B CommissionerG Khaleel Sab 2 Area City Corporation167 38 km2 64 63 sq mi Rural1 609 68 km2 621 50 sq mi Elevation485 m 1 591 ft Population 2011 City Corporation410 445 1 Rank95th India 5th Karnataka Rural360 484DemonymBallariansLanguages OfficialKannada RegionalKannada Telugu UrduTime zoneIndian Standard TimePIN583101 583102 583103 583104 583105 583152 3 Telephone code 91 8392ISO 3166 codeIN KAVehicle registrationKA 34Sex ratio1 04 4 Literacy79 4 Websitewww wbr ballaricity wbr mrc wbr gov wbr in wbr en wbr home Contents 1 History 2 Geography 2 1 Climate 3 Demographics 3 1 Languages 4 Economy 4 1 Industries 4 1 1 Textiles and garments 5 Transport 5 1 Roadways 5 2 Rail 5 3 Air 6 Notable people 7 References 7 1 Maps 7 2 General 8 External linksHistory editMain article History of Bellary nbsp Core area of Western Chalukya monuments roughly corresponding to Sindavadi 1000 nbsp Madras province South 1909 showing Ballari Ballari was a part of Rayalaseema Ceded Districts which was part of Madras Presidency till 1 November 1956 The Ballari city municipal council was upgraded to a city corporation in 2004 6 The Union Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of India approved a proposal 7 to rename the city in October 2014 and Bellary was renamed to Ballari on 1 November 2014 8 Geography edit nbsp Ballari Fort Ballari is located at 15 09 N 76 56 E 15 15 N 76 93 E 15 15 76 93 The city stands in the midst of a wide level plain of black cotton soil 9 Granite rocks and hills form a prominent feature of Ballari The city is spread mainly around two hills of granite composition the Ballari Hill and the Kumbara Gudda Ballari Hill has a circumference of nearly 2 miles 3 2 km and a height of 480 feet 150 m The length of this rock from north east to south west is about 1 150 ft 350 m To the east and south lies an irregular heap of boulders to the west there is an unbroken monolith and the north is walled by bare rugged ridges 9 Kumbara Gudda looks like the profile of a human face from the south east It is also known as Face Hill 9 Climate edit Climate data for Bellary 1981 2010 extremes 1901 2012 Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high C F 37 6 99 7 40 5 104 9 43 0 109 4 45 4 113 7 44 6 112 3 44 7 112 5 39 5 103 1 39 0 102 2 38 4 101 1 39 0 102 2 38 4 101 1 35 6 96 1 44 7 112 5 Mean daily maximum C F 31 4 88 5 34 4 93 9 38 1 100 6 40 4 104 7 39 6 103 3 35 3 95 5 32 7 90 9 31 9 89 4 32 3 90 1 31 8 89 2 30 8 87 4 30 2 86 4 34 1 93 4 Mean daily minimum C F 15 6 60 1 18 1 64 6 21 1 70 0 23 9 75 0 24 4 75 9 23 3 73 9 23 0 73 4 22 7 72 9 21 9 71 4 20 9 69 6 18 3 64 9 15 6 60 1 20 7 69 3 Record low C F 7 0 44 6 8 5 47 3 10 0 50 0 13 0 55 4 14 5 58 1 14 8 58 6 15 5 59 9 15 0 59 0 15 0 59 0 12 5 54 5 8 4 47 1 8 0 46 4 7 0 44 6 Average rainfall mm inches 2 9 0 11 2 3 0 09 6 0 0 24 17 2 0 68 54 3 2 14 59 2 2 33 42 6 1 68 70 0 2 76 111 0 4 37 89 0 3 50 39 5 1 56 5 5 0 22 499 5 19 67 Average rainy days 0 5 0 2 0 6 1 5 3 4 3 8 3 8 4 7 5 4 5 8 2 4 0 5 32 7 Average relative humidity at 17 30 IST 43 37 30 29 34 50 56 58 58 62 56 50 47 Source India Meteorological Department 10 11 Demographics edit nbsp Ballari Town Historical populationYearPop 193147 573 194156 148 18 0 195170 332 25 3 196185 673 21 8 1971125 183 46 1 1981201 579 61 0 1991245 391 21 7 2001316 766 29 1 2011410 445 29 6 Source 12 Religions in Ballari City 2011 13 Religion Percent Hinduism 70 33 Islam 26 53 Christianity 1 71 Jainism 0 79 Other or not stated 0 65 According to the 2011 Census of India the urban population of Ballari was 410 445 of whom 206 149 were male and 204 296 female 280 610 of the population were literate and 52 413 of the population were under 7 years of age 14 The population in 2001 was recorded as 316 766 15 Languages edit Languages of Ballari City 2011 16 Kannada 42 06 Telugu 25 03 Urdu 24 35 Hindi 3 04 Marathi 1 75 Tamil 1 69 Others 2 08 Kannada is the largest language spoken by 42 06 of the population Telugu is the second largest spoken by 25 03 and Urdu 24 35 3 04 of the population spoke Hindi 1 75 Marathi and 1 69 Tamil 15 16 Economy editIndustries edit Textiles and garments edit Cotton processing With cotton being one of the major agricultural crops around Ballari historically the city has had a thriving cotton processing industry in the form of ginning spinning and weaving plants The earliest steam cotton spinning mill was established in 1894 which by 1901 had 17 800 spindles and employed 520 hands 9 The city continues to thrive in this sector with one spinning mill and numerous cotton ginning and pressing mills hand looms and power looms 17 Garment manufacture Ballari has a historic garment industry dating back to the First World War period when the Marathi speaking Darji tailor community with its native skills in tailoring migrated from the current Maharashtra region to stitch uniforms for the soldiers of the colonial British Indian Army stationed at Ballari After the war the community switched to making uniforms for school children and gradually the uniforms made here became popular all over the country 18 19 Currently Ballari is well known for its branded and unbranded denim garments with brands like Point Blank Walker Dragonfly and Podium being successfully marketed nationally and internationally 19 There are about 260 denim garment units in Ballari with nearly 3000 families working in these units 17 Transport edit nbsp Ballari railway station platform 1 Roadways edit National Highway 67 India National Highway 150A India State Highway 128 and State Highway 132 pass through the city Rail edit There is Ballari Junction railway station on the Guntakal Vasco da Gama section Air edit The closest functional commercial airport is Jindal Vijaynagar Airport Notable people editSee Category People from Bellary Kolur Basavanagoud Politician Educationist and Industrialist He served as MP in 13th Lok Sabha from Ballari Lok Sabha constituency Basavarajeshwari Politician and Industrialist Ravi Belagere Actor writer novelist journalist publisher of the Hai Bengaluru Tabloid Naveen Chandra Actor in Telugu film industry Manjula Chellur 1st Woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Nagarur Gopinath One of the pioneers of cardiothoracic surgery in India credited with the first successful performance of open heart surgery in India in 1962 Recipient of Padma Shri 1974 and Dr B C Roy Award 1978 Jayanthi cinema actress born in Ballari K C Kondaiah Politician and industrialist Arcot Ranganatha Mudaliar Former Deputy Collector of Ballari politician and theosophist He served as the Minister of Public Health and Excise for the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928 A Sabhapathy Mudaliar Philanthropist The Women amp Children s Hospital or The District Hospital was initially named after him following his donation of land and building to the hospital 9 B Nagendra Youth Welfare and Sports Minister of Karnataka Bellary Raghava 1880 1946 Noted dramatist The Raghava Kala Mandir auditorium in Ballari is named after him Suparna Rajaram Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University Dharmavaram Ramakrishnamacharyulu 1853 1912 Noted dramatist Bhargavi Rao a Kannada Telugu translator winner of the prestigious Kendra Sahitya Academy award Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao 1854 1919 Noted dramatist Gali Janardhan Reddy Former minister and district in charge He is one of the richest politicians in India B Sriramulu Ex Minister of Health and Family Welfare of Karnataka Tekur Subramanyam Indian Freedom Fighter First post independence MP of Ballari elected thrice in a row since 1952 political secretary to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru 20 21 22 Ibrahim B Syed Indo American Radiologist Allum Veerabhadrappa former minister Government of KarnatakaReferences editMaps edit General edit Census Data Handbook 2011 PDF Retrieved 24 January 2024 Bellary City Staff Archived from the original on 20 May 2006 Retrieved 5 February 2015 Indiapost PIN Search for bellary Archived from the original on 4 May 2007 Retrieved 8 May 2007 a b District Census Handbook Guntur PDF Census of India The Registrar General amp Census Commissioner p 22 Retrieved 6 November 2016 Bangalore becomes Bengaluru 11 other cities renamed The Economic Times Bangalore PTI 1 November 2014 Retrieved 19 April 2024 Karnataka Bellary City Municipal Council upgraded to corporation The Hindu 26 September 2004 Archived from the original on 21 December 2016 Retrieved 8 December 2016 Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs PDF New City Names to Karnatka New name for cities The Hindu Retrieved 1 November 2014 a b c d e The Imperial Gazetteer of India volume 7 Oxford Clarendon Press 1908 pp 158 176 Station Bellary Climatological Table 1981 2010 PDF Climatological Normals 1981 2010 India Meteorological Department January 2015 pp 119 120 Archived from the original PDF on 5 February 2020 Retrieved 18 April 2020 Extremes of Temperature amp Rainfall for Indian Stations Up to 2012 PDF India Meteorological Department December 2016 p M90 Archived from the original PDF on 5 February 2020 Retrieved 18 April 2020 Census Tables Office of the Registrar General amp Census Commissioner India Retrieved 2 October 2023 Table C 01 Population By Religious Community Karnataka Census of India Census of India 2011 Census Commission of India Retrieved 8 December 2016 a b Census of India 2001 PDF Census Commission of India Retrieved 8 December 2016 a b C 16 City Population by mother tongue Office Of The Registrar General amp Census Commissioner India Retrieved 28 September 2023 a b Karnataka Handloom Archived from the original on 27 September 2011 Retrieved 23 July 2010 Bellary Portal Archived from the original on 20 July 2002 Retrieved 23 July 2010 a b Jeans Industry in Bellary Archived from the original on 22 December 2008 Retrieved 23 July 2010 This jailhouse has a rich past 26 April 2010 Retrieved 4 June 2010 A Congress bastion since 1952 Archived from the original on 26 January 2013 Retrieved 4 June 2010 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Caste will play a vital role in Bellary Retrieved 4 June 2010 External links edit nbsp 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