Bhindar (also spelt Bhinder) is a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

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. The tehsil headquarter is located in the town of Bhinder.

History

Before the formation of the Republic of India, the territory of present-day Bhindar tehsil was part of the former

Udaipur State The Kingdom of Mewar was an independent Hindu Monarchy, kingdom that existed in the Rajputana region of the Indian subcontinent and later became a dominant state in medieval India. The kingdom was initially founded and ruled by the Guhila dyna ...

. With the formation of the United State of Rajasthan (precursor to the state of

) in 1948, the new district of

Udaipur Udaipur (Hindi: , ) (ISO 15919: ''Udayapura'') is a city in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, about south of the state capital Jaipur. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Udaipur district. It is the historic capital of t ...

was constituted which included the territory of present-day Bhindar tehsil. In 1959, the sub-tehsil of Bhindar was created within Vallabhnagar tehsil. After a nearly 40-year long struggle by local activists to obtain tehsil status, Bhindar became a tehsil in 2017.

Geography

The area of Bhindar tehsil is 341 square kilometres. The annual average rainfall in the tehsil is 608 mm, with an average of 30 rainy days per year.The 'Rainfall Profile of Udaipur' (2013) report referenced presents the information for Vallabhnagar tehsil prior to Bhindar tehsil being carved out of the former. Therefore, the average rainfall and rainy days stated here are those for Vallabhnagar tehsil from the said report. 16 villages of the tehsil that are in the vicinity of the city of the

urban area are subject to the jurisdiction urban planning policies of the Udaipur

Urban Improvement Trust The Urban Improvement Trust (or UIT, ''नगर विकास न्यास'') is a type of statutory body in the state of Rajasthan, India, constituted for the purpose of promoting urban development. The power to create Urban Improvement ...

References

Tehsils of Rajasthan Tehsils of Udaipur district {{Udaipur-geo-stub