Dang District, India

Dang district
district

Location of Dang district in Gujarat
Country  India
State Gujarat
Headquarters Ahwa
Languages
 • Official Gujarati, Hindi, English
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Vehicle registration GJ
Website gujaratindia.com

Dang ( Listen ), also known as The Dangs, is a district in the state of Gujarat in India. The administrative headquarters of the district are located in Ahwa. The Dangs have an area of 1,764 km² and a population of 226,769 (as of 2011).[1]

As of 2011 it is the least populous district of Gujarat (out of 33).[2]

As per the Planning Commission, Dangs is the most economically distressed district out of 640 districts in India.[3] Saputara and Waghai are important places in this district.

Administrative divisions

Tehsil

  1. Waghai
  2. Ahwa
  3. Subir

History

Before Independence several wars were fought between the five tribal kings of Dang and the British Raj. According to the history of Dang, the biggest war to took place at Lashkaria Amba, in when the kings of all the five states joined together to protect Dang from British rule. The British were beaten and agreed to a compromise.

As per the treaty signed in 1842 the British were allowed to use the forests and their natural products against which they had to pay around 3,000 silver coins to the five kings. Currently the kings receive a monthly political pension by the Government of India, which is the main source of their income. This payment is continued even though all privy purses for the Princely states of India were stopped in 1970 since the agreement was between then monarchy of Dangs and the British.

At the end of each fiscal year, the kings gather in Ahwa for a traditional royal ceremony, in their richly decorated buggies and bands with tribal dancers, to receive the payment as per the agreement of 1842. In ancient Indian Scriptures Dang is known as Dand Aranyaka, meaning Bamboo Forest.

The five kingdoms are Daher, Linga, Gadvi, Vasurna and Pimpri.

State Population ('000);[4] Revenue (1881, Rs.) Ruler's title. Notes
Dang Pimpri 3,6 3106 388 km²
Dang Wadhwan 0,253 147 ca. 12 km². Not to be confused with Wadhwan State whose capital was Wadhwan.
Dang Ketak Kadupada 0,218 155
Dang Amala 5,3 2885; 1891: 5300 Raja. 307 km²
Dang Chinchli 1,67; 1891: ca. 1,4 601 ca. 70 km²
Dang Pimpladevi 0,134 120 ca. 10 km²
Dang Palasbishar (= Palasvihir) 0,223 230 ca. 5 km²
Dang Auchar ca. 500 201 < 21 km²
Dang Derbhauti 4,891; 1891: ca. 5 3649 Raja. 196 km²
Dang Gadhavi (= Gadhi) 6,309 5125 Raja.
Dang Shivbara 0,346 422 ca. 12 km²
Dang Kirli (= Kirali) 0,167 512 31 km²
Dang Wasurna 6,177 2275
Dang Dhude (= Bilbari) 1,45; 1891: 1418 85 < 5 km²
Dang Surgana 14 11469
Machhali 1.1; 4745 35

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Dang district has a population of 226,769,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Vanuatu.[5] This gives it a ranking of 587th in India (out of a total of 640).[2] The district has a population density of 129 inhabitants per square kilometre (330/sq mi) .[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.44%.[2] The Dangs has a sex ratio of 1007 females for every 1000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 76.8%.[2]

Economy

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Dang District as an economically distressed district, one of 250 out of a total of 640 districts.[6] It is one of the six districts in Gujarat currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[6]

Forest of the Dangs

Dang District has part of a forest that includes Purna Wildlife Sanctuary,[7] which is shared between the districts of Dang and Tapi in Gujarat and Nandurbar District in Maharashtra,[8][9] and Vansda National Park in Navsari District, which shares a continuous tract of forest with Valsad District.[7][10] The evergreen forest in this region is in the range of the rusty-spotted cat.[11] Like Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuary, there have been extinctions in the population of birds.[7] Also, though the Bengal tiger is reportedly extinct in Gujarat, the region where southeastern Gujarat meets Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh nevertheless has tigers,[12] making this forest a potential habitat of the tiger.[9][13]

Rivers

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-27.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
  3. ↑ "Governance in Gujarat Under Modi - A Critique"
  4. ↑ Hunter, W. W.; Imperial Gazetteer of India; London ²1885, Vol. IV, S 115-6
  5. ↑ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Retrieved 2011-10-01. Vanuatu 224,564 July 2011 est.
  6. 1 2 Ministry of Panchayati Raj (September 8, 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme" (PDF). National Institute of Rural Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 5, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  7. 1 2 3 Significant bird records and local extinctions in Purna and Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuaries, Gujarat, India-PRANAV TRIVEDI and V. C. SONI
  8. ↑ "Mahal Eco Campsite". Gujarat Tourism. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  9. 1 2 Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Sinha, P. R. (Eds.) (2011). Status of tigers, co-predators and prey in India, 2010. National Tiger Conservation Authority, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. TR 2011/003 pp-302
  10. ↑ "Vansda National Park". Gujarat Tourism. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  11. ↑ Nowell, Kristin; Jackson, Peter (1996). Wild Cats: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. pp. 1–334. ISBN 2-8317-0045-0.
  12. ↑ Jhala, Y. V.; Gopal, R.; Qureshi, Q., eds. (2008), Status of the Tigers, Co-predators, and Prey in India (PDF), TR 08/001, National Tiger Conservation Authority, Govt. of India, New Delhi; Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2013
  13. ↑ Karanth, K. U. (2003). "Tiger ecology and conservation in the Indian subcontinent". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 100 (2–3): 169–189. Archived from the original on 2012-03-10.
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