Shabad is a town and a
mandal
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in
Ranga Reddy district
Ranga Reddy district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district headquarters is located at Kongara Kalan Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal. The district was named after the former deputy chief minister of the United Andhra Prade ...
in the state of
Telangana
Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...
in
India
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. Its name is sometimes written as Shahabad. It is situated about 45 km from
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
, the state capital. This town is well connected with roads, a state highway runs through Shabad, which connects Shabad with Hyderabad, and nearby
Chevella
Chevella is a town, mandal and suburb of Hyderabad in Ranga Reddy district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of surrounding villages with many government establishments like Judicial court, Revenue Division Office, Acp of ...
,
Shamshabad
Shamshabad is a census town in the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad mandal of Rajendranagar revenue division. Sri Vendikonda Siddalingeswara Devastanam temple is situated in Siddulagutta Road in Shamshabad mandal. The inter ...
and
Shadnagar
Shadnagar is a town and assembly constituency in the Ranga Reddy district in Telangana, India. As part of the reorganisation of districts in Telangana, Shadnagar separated from Mahabubnagar district and merged into Ranga Reddy district Headqua ...
towns.
Geography
It has a similar climate as that of Hyderabad, but now the place is cooler compared to Hyderabad. As the town is surrounded by water bodies and forests, it has a cooler climate. In
summer
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the temperature rises to about 31 degrees C, and in
winter
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it falls to about 15 degrees C, and even some times less than 8 degrees C.
Panchayats
The following is the list of village
panchayats in Shabad mandal.
*
Bobbilgam
*
Tirumalapur
*
Elgondaguda
*
Etlaerravaly
*
Tadlapalle
*
Rudraram
*
Chandenvalle
*
Hayathabad
*
Solipet
*
Maddur
*
Peddaved
*
Dammerlapalle
*
Nagarkunta
*
Bhongirpalle
*
Machanpalle
*
Polaram
*
Pothugal
*
Regadidoswada
*
Komerabanda
*
Obagunta
* Shabad
*
Manmarri
*
Kakloor
*
Ananthawaram
*
Kesaguda
*
Rangapur
*
Kummariguda
*
Muddem guda
Prominent Schools
Dhyanahita High School*Government High School
*Government
Primary Schools
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*Government ZPHS High School Girls
*Government
Urdu
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Medium School
*
Holy Spirit
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High School
*Navajeevan High School
*
Sri
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The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Assamese, Meitei ( Manipuri), Marathi, Malay (including In ...
Saraswathi
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Shishu
Mandir
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*Sumedha Montessori E/m High School
*Telangana State Model High School
Colleges
*PRRM College of
Engineering
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and
Technology
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*PRRM
Pharmacy
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College
*PRRM College of Pharmacy
*TSMS Junior College
Places of interest
The town contains many
temples
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,
mosque
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Originally, mosques were si ...
s, and
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
es. There are about four mosques in Shabad along with a landmark mosque called ID GAH Shabad, which is believed to have been built by
Mughal emperor
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Aurangzeb
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. There is the
dargah
A Sufi shrine or dargah ( ''dargâh'' or ''dargah'', Turkish: ''dergâh'', Hindustani: ''dargāh'' दरगाह درگاہ, ''dôrgah'') is a shrine or tomb built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi saint or dervi ...
of Hazrath Pahelwaan Shah Wali situated adjacent to the Shahabad
tank
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. A famous Lord Sri
Krishna
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temple is in Nagarkunta village. This village is 5 km from Shabad. Near
Muddem Guda there is a Lord
Shiva
Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the Hindu deities, principal deities of Hinduism. He is the God in Hinduism, Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions w ...
temple and some associated monuments. In shabad near yelgondaguda there is
Meerapur dargah it is a famous dargah everyday a lot of people come to dargah. There are four churches Aroygyapuri Roman Catholic Church and Mennonite Brothers Church both are located in S.C colony(Harijanwada)the other two churches are in Shabad behind the cooperative bank. The Katta Maisamma temple on the way to Keshavguda, Golluriguda is a famous temple. The lake road is used for relaxing and has a good sunset sight.
Languages
The major languages spoken in Shabad are
Telugu
Telugu may refer to:
* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of South India
** Telugu literature, is the body of works written in the Telugu language.
* Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Tel ...
and
Urdu
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.
English and
Hindi
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are occasionally used.
Crops
The place is much suitable for harvesting
tomato
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es (2-3 truckloads of tomatoes are transported to Hyderabad every day). In addition, farmers grow other crops including many
flower
Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants ( angiosperms). Typically, they are structured in four circular levels, called whorls, around the end of a stalk. These whorls include: calyx, m ...
s and
vegetable
Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including edible flower, flo ...
s, as well as
rice
Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...
, ''jower'',
cotton
Cotton (), first recorded in ancient India, is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure ...
, and
corn
Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout Poaceae, grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago ...
.
References
External links
TS village list{{Ranga Reddy district, state=expanded
Mandals in Ranga Reddy district