Chimmalagi is a village in

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district,

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state,

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. When Almatti dam was built across the

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became fully functional, the village submerged in its backwaters. Government has rehabilitated the original residents of the village to a new place in the same district (Vijayapura). Now the place is called New Chimmalagi. Most of the inhabitants of this village are found to be devotees of Lord

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, due to its geographical closeness to Yalgur. Yalgur houses one of the very famous Hanuman temples in the region. Most of the original residents of the village carry their last name as Chimmalagi. The educated among them have migrated to places like Hubli, Dharwad,

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, Gulbarga and to

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for better prospects. Chimmalagi Village was known for its age old Ram Temple (Vanavasi Ram Mandir) which was built by Kolhapur King, now it is shifted with in New Chimmalagi Village worshipped and managed by the Chimmalagi (Gudi) family, head of the family is Vasantacharya Chimmalagi.

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{{Bijapur-geo-stub Villages in Bijapur district, Karnataka