Dholpur District is a district of

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

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in Northern

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. The town of

Dholpur Dholpur is a city in the Dholpur district in Rajasthan state of India. It is situated on the left bank of the famous Chambal river. The city is the administrative headquarters of Dholpur District and was formerly seat of the Dholpur prin ...

is the district headquarters.

District is a part of Bharatpur Divisional Commissionerate. It was carved out from the erstwhile

Bharatpur District Bharatpur District is a district in Rajasthan States and territories of India, state in western India. The town of Bharatpur, India, Bharatpur is the District Headquarters, Division Headquarters and Headquarters of Bharatpur, India, Bharatpur ...

on 15 April 1982. Dholpur District has an area of 3084 km². The

Chambal River The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in Central and Northern India, and thus forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system. The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, running for a time through Rajasthan then f ...

forms the southern boundary of the district, across which lies the state of

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

. The district is bounded by the state of

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on the east and northeast, by

of Rajasthan on the northwest, and

Karauli District Karauli District is a district of Rajasthan in western India. The town of Karauli is the district headquarters. Karauli District comes under Bharatpur division, Bharatpur Divisional Commissionerate. Karauli is famous for popular red-stone. Th ...

of Rajasthan on the west. All along the bank of the

the district is deeply intersected by ravines; low ranges of hills in the western portion of the district supply quarries of fine-grained and easily worked red

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

. Administratively the district is divided into four subdivisions, Dholpur,

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Rajakhera Rajakhera is a city and a municipality in Dholpur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Geography Rajakhera is located at . It has an average elevation of 153 metres (505 feet). Rajakhera is on the border of Rajasthan state. It ...

, and Baseri, and six

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

s, Dholpur, Bari, Rajakhera, Basedi,

Sarmathura Sarmathura (old names: Sri-Mathura, Sir-Mathura, and Sir Muttra) is a subdivision located in Dholpur district, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The Sarmathura subdivision is a substantial source of sandstone. Historically, red sandstone from S ...

and Saipau. The economy of the district is primarily agricultural. The regional language of Dholpur is "Braj Bhasha," which has fragrances of Bundelkhandi and Khadi bhasha. It is because Dholpur is situated at the center surrounded by three states of Braj kshetra, are Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. It is famous for Chambal Bharka (Sand made Mountains).

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Dholpur district has a

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of 1,206,516, 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 394th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 22.78%. Dhaulpur has a

sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...

of 845

females Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females a ...

for every 1000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of 70.14%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20.36% and 4.86% of the population respectively. At the time of the

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, 97.91% of the population in the district spoke

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and 1.58%

Braj Bhasha The Braj language, ''Braj Bhasha'', also known as Vraj Bhasha or Vrij Bhasha or Braj Bhāṣā or Braji or Brij Bhasha or Braj Boli, is a Western Hindi language. Along with Awadhi (a variety of Eastern Hindi), it was one of the two predominant ...

as their first language.

References

External links

Official website
{{Coord, 26, 42, N, 77, 54, E, type:adm3rd_source:itwiki, display=title Districts of Rajasthan Districts in Bharatpur division