Dausa District is a district of

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within

Jaipur division Jaipur Division is one of the administrative geographical unit, called a division, of Rajasthan state, India. The division comprises five districts, namely, Alwar, Dausa, Jaipur, Jhunjhunu, Sikar Sikar is a city and municipal council in the ...

. The city of Dausa is the district headquarters. It has an area of 3432 km² and a population of 1,634,409 in 2011 census. It is surrounded by

Alwar District Alwar is a district in the state of Rajasthan in northern India, whose district headquarters is Alwar city. The district covers 8,380 km2. It is bound on the north by Rewari district of Haryana, on the east by Bharatpur district of Raja ...

in the north, Bharatpur district in the northeast, Karauli district in the southeast, Sawai Madhopur district in the south, and Jaipur district in the west. Dausa district is divided into eight

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s - Baswa, Dausa, Lalsot, Mahwa, Sikrai, Lawan, Nangal Rajawatan and Ramgarh Panchwara, bejupada, mandawar, Rahuwas. The Sawa and Ban Ganga rivers run through the district. It is situated on the National Highway 21 from

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. It is 55 km to the east of

and 103 km from

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History

Dausa is named after a hill near the city that was called Devgiri. On the top of hill is situated a fort. Later, Dausa was given by gurjar to , but the centre of their power shifted to ajmer When

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went to

Ajmer Ajmer is one of the major and oldest cities in the Indian state of Rajasthan and the centre of the eponymous Ajmer District. It is located at the centre of Rajasthan. It is also known as heart of Rajasthan. The city was established as "''Aj ...

as a pilgrim to

Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Chishtī Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan Sijzī (1143–1236 CE), known more commonly as Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī or Moinuddin Chishti, or by the epithet Gharib Nawaz (),Blain Auer, "Chishtī Muʿīn al-Dīn Ḥasan", in: ''Encyclopaedia of Islam, TH ...

in 1562, he stayed in Dausa and met with Rupsi Baragi, Hakim of Dausa at the time and brother of Bharmal. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people of Dausa. The main crops of the district are wheat, bajra, rapeseed, mustard and groundnuts. Dausa District was constituted on 10 April 1991 by separating four

s, namely Dausa, Baswa, Sikrai, & Lalsot from Jaipur district. Mahwa Tehsil of

was included in this district on 15 August 1992.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Dausa district has a

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of 1,634,409, with a population density of 476 persons per km², roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 305th in India (out of a total of

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). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 24.31%. Dausa has a

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of 905

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 68.16%, with male literacy at 82.98% and female literacy at 51.93%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 21.68% and 26.51% of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 86.77% of the population in the district spoke

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, 6.64% Dhundari and 6.40% Rajasthani as their first language. The dialect of the region is Dhundari.

Village Baijwadi

* Khawaraoji

References

External links

Official website

Dausa district on Rajasthan govt page
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