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Adoni
Adoni is a city in the Kurnool district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Adoni mandal, administered under the Adoni Revenue Division. In the 2011 census of India, Adoni had a population of 166,344, making it the 15th most populous town in the state with an urban agglomeration population of 184,625. History The Adoni fort is central to the town's history. In 1780, an observer wrote, :"Adoni is situated upon three mountains which are united; it has a range of irregular fortifications, piled one over the other. To maintain it requires a garrison of 30,000 men. The fortifications upon the mountains are often weak...To the south of Adoni, a large plain, to the north there are mountains, obnoxious from their nearness, to the east there are other mountains. To the west there are also mountains and this part is the weakest."Sen, S''Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785–1796.''Popular Prakashan, 1995, volume 2 p. 55. . It is thought to hav ...
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Kurnool District
Kurnool district is one of the eight districts in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in the North western part of the state and is bounded by Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana in the north, Raichur district of Karnataka in the northwest, Bellary district of Karnataka in the west, Anantapur district in the south and Nandyal district in the east. The city of Kurnool is the headquarters of the district. It has a population of 4,053,463 of which 28.35% were urban as of 2011. History The Ketavaram rock paintings are dated back to the Paleolithic era (located at a distance of from Kurnool). Jurreru Valley, Katavani Kunta and Yaganti in the district have some important rock arts and paintings in their vicinity, which are dated back to 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. Belum Caves are geologically and historically important caves in the district. There are indications that Jain and Buddhist monks were occupying these caves centuries ...
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Adoni (Assembly Constituency)
Adoni Assembly constituency is a constituency of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is one of 14 constituencies in the Kurnool district. '' Y Sai Prasad Reddy '' is the present MLA of the constituency, who won the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from YSRCP Party. Y Sai Prasad Reddy of YSRCP Party is currently representing the constituency. Overview It is part of the Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency along with another six Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Kurnool, Kodumur, Pattikonda, Mantralayam, Yemmiganur and Alur in Kurnool district. Mandals Members of Legislative Assembly Election results Assembly Elections 2004 Assembly Elections 2009 Assembly elections 2014 Assembly elections 1952 See also * List of constituencies of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh currently has 175 constituencies out of which 2 ...
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Kurnool (Lok Sabha Constituency)
Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency is one of the twenty-five lok sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh in India. It comprises seven assembly segments and belongs to Kurnool district. Assembly segments Kurnool Lok Sabha constituency presently comprises the following Legislative Assembly segments: Members of Parliament Election results General Election 1989 General Election 1991 General Election 1996 General Election 1998 General Election 1999 General Election 2004 General Election 2009 General Election 2014 General Election 2019 See also * List of constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh currently has 175 constituencies out of which 29 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled Castes candidates and 7 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled tribes candidates. District-wise summary ... References External links Kur ...
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Vijayanagara Empire
The Vijayanagara Empire, also called the Karnata Kingdom, was a Hindu empire based in the region of South India, which consisted the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana and Maharashtra. It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty, members of a pastoralist cowherd community that claimed Yadava lineage. The empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts by the southern powers to ward off Islamic invasions of India, Perso-Turkic Islamic invasions by the end of the 13th century. At its peak, it subjugated almost all of South India's ruling families and pushed the sultans of the Deccan beyond the Tungabhadra River, Tungabhadra-Krishna River, Krishna river doab region, in addition to annexing modern day Odisha (ancient Kalinga (historical region), Kalinga) from the Gajapati Empire, Gajapati Kingdom thus becoming a notable power. It lasted until 1646, although it ...
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List Of Cities In Andhra Pradesh By Population
This article is about the list of most populated cities in Andhra Pradesh state of India as per ''2011 Census of India'', conducted by ''The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner,'' under ''Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India''. Cities statistics As per 2011 Census of India, ''towns with population of 100,000 and above are called Cities''. Visakhapatnam is the most populated city with a population of 2,278,000 after merger of surrounding towns of Bheemunipatnam and Anakapalle Municipalities into Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (VMC) and it was upgraded to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC). Proposals to merge some near by villages to Vijayawada, Kakinada, and Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporations. Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, and Tirupati are being developed as Smart cities by Government of India under Smart Cities Mission. ''The cities written in bold are the headquarters of their respective district.'' ...
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Andhra Pradesh Legislature
The Andhra Pradesh Legislature is the state legislature of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and is composed of an *Appointed Governor of Andhra *The indirectly-elected Saasana Mandali *The popularly-elected Saasana Sabha. The Legislature works at the transit building located in the state capital Amaravati.The legislature derives its authority from the Indian constitution, with sole authority to make laws on 61 subjects specified in the state list and shares law-making power in 52 concurrent subjects with the Parliament of India. The state uses first-past-the-post method territorial constituencies for electing members to the lower house. The members of the upper house are indirectly-elected by special constituencies or nominated by the governor. The governor is head of the state, so he can elect the leader of the legislature History Andhra Pradesh, the first linguistic state and once the fifth largest state in the In ...
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List Of Cities In Andhra Pradesh
This article is about the list of most populated cities in Andhra Pradesh state of India as per ''2011 Census of India'', conducted by ''The Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner,'' under ''Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India''. Cities statistics As per 2011 Census of India, ''towns with population of 100,000 and above are called Cities''. Visakhapatnam is the most populated city with a population of 2,278,000 after merger of surrounding towns of Bheemunipatnam and Anakapalle Municipalities into Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (VMC) and it was upgraded to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation ( GVMC). Proposals to merge some near by villages to Vijayawada, Kakinada, and Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporations. Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, and Tirupati are being developed as Smart cities by Government of India under Smart Cities Mission. ''The cities written in bold are the headquarters of their respective district.'' ...
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the north-west, Chhattisgarh to the north, Odisha to the north-east, Tamil Nadu to the south, Karnataka to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east. It has the second longest coastline in India after Gujarat, of about . Andhra State was the first state to be formed on a linguistic basis in India on 1 October 1953. On 1 November 1956, Andhra State was merged with the Telugu-speaking areas (ten districts) of the Hyderabad State to form United Andhra Pradesh. ln 2014 these merged areas of Hyderabad State are bifurcated from United Andhra Pradesh to form new state Telangana . Present form of Andhra similar to Andhra state.but some mandalas like Bhadrachalam still with Telangana. Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Kurnool is People Capital of Andhra ...
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Census Of India
The decennial Census of India has been conducted 16 times, as of 2021. While it has been undertaken every 10 years, beginning in 1872 under British Viceroy Lord Mayo, the first complete census was taken in 1881. Post 1949, it has been conducted by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. All the censuses since 1951 were conducted under the 1948 Census of India Act. The last census was held in 2011, whilst the next was to be held in 2021. But it has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Historically, there has been a long time between collection of data and dissemination of data. Census of India during British Rule List of censuses conducted in India before independence: *1872 Census of india *1881 Census of India *1891 Census of India *1901 Census of India *1911 Census of India *1921 Census of India *1931 Census of India *1941 Census of India Census of Republic of India List of censuses conduc ...
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Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the Sansad Bhavan, New Delhi. The maximum membership of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552 (Initially, in 1950, it was 500). Currently, the house has 543 seats which are made up by the election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum. Between 1952 and 2020, 2 additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the 104th Constitutional Amendment Act, ...
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Urban Agglomeration
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets; in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment. The creation of earlier predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning, which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources led to a human impact on the environment. "Agglomeration effects" are in the list of the main consequences of increased rates of firm creation since. This is due to conditions created by a greater level of industrial activity in a given region. However, a favorable environment for human capital development would also be ...
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