Bundi District is a district in the

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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 ...

in western

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. The town of Bundi is the district headquarters. It has an area of 5,550 km² and a population of 1,110,906 (2011 census). It is divided into 5 tehsils which are: Bundi,

Hindoli Hindoli is a small town in the Bundi district of Rajasthan, India. Situated in the lap of the Arawalli Hills, the town is a trade center for many small villages. Police Station of Hindoli is honored as "Adarsh Police Thana" for maintaining low ...

Nainwa Nainwan is a tehsil of Bundi district and a municipality in the Hadoti region of the state of Rajasthan in India. Geography Nainwan is located at . It has an average elevation of 291 metres (954 feet).The town is situated at a distance ...

, Keshoraipatan and

Indergarh Indergarh is a town and a nagar parishad in Datia district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is believed that the name of this village was earlier Dard which later became Indergaon. The ruler of Indergaon was Indersen Jat. He constructe ...

History

Stone Age tools dating around 5,000 to 200,000 years before present, were found in Bundi and Bhilwara districts of the state.

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Region of

is known as

Hadoti Hadoti is a region of Rajasthan state in western India, which was once called the Bundi Kingdom. The biggest cities are Jhalawar and Kota. It includes the districts of Bundi, Baran, Jhalawar and Kota and is bounded on the west by the M ...

- the land of the Hada Rajputs. Hadas are a major branch of the

Chauhan Chauhan, historically ''Chahamana'', is a clan name historically associated with the various ruling Rajput families during the Medieval India in Rajasthan. Subclans Khichi, Hada, Songara, Bhadauria, Devda etc. are the branches or subcla ...

Agnikula Rajputs (hailing from fire dynasty). They had settled in the hilly terrain of

Mewar Mewar or Mewad is a region in the south-central part of Rajasthan state of India. It includes the present-day districts of Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Pirawa Tehsil of Jhalawar District of Rajasthan, Neemuch and ...

, at Bambaoda, near Bijoliya in the 12th century CE. Bundi was established in 1241 CE by Rao Deva Singh. This was the first step in the establishment of Hadauti, when the Hadas moved down from the ‘Pathar’ around Bambaoda. Bundi takes its name from the Bando Naal or the narrow passage, between the rugged hills. The town of Bundi is nestled in the cleft of the

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and has a special medieval flavor quite untouched by time. Prince Jait Singh of Bundi captured Kota in 1264 AD and Kota became a part of Bundi as the Jaghir (land grant) of the eldest prince of Bundi. Kota became a separate state in 1624. The state of

Jhalawar Jhalawar () is a city, municipal council and headquarter in Jhalawar district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located in the southeastern part of the state. It was the capital of the former princely state of Jhalawar, and is the ad ...

was formed in 1838 out of Kota territory.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Bundi district has a

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of 1,110,906, 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 415th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 15.7%. Bundi has a

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of 922

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 62.31%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 18.97% and 20.57% of the population respectively.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 census, 76.02% of the population spoke Hadauti, 14.35%

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, 4.67% Rajasthani and 1.01%

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as their first language.

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* {{Coord, 25.4417, N, 75.6417, E, type:adm3rd_source:itwiki, display=title Districts of Rajasthan Districts in Kota division

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