Bilara Tehsil 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 ...

Jodhpur District Jodhpur district () is a district in the State of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Jodhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district. As of the 2011 census, it is the second highest populated district of Rajasthan (out of 33), ...

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state in western

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. The tehsil headquarters are in the town of

Bilara Bilara is a city and a municipality located in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarters for Bilara tehsil and a market center for the surrounding agricultural area. Demographics Bilara is a Municipalit ...

Geography

Bilara tehsil is the southeasternmost of the eleven tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders

Bhopalgarh tehsil Bhopalgarh tehsil is a tehsil in Jodhpur District of Rajasthan state in western India. Headquarters for the tehsil is the town of Bhopalgarh. Bhopalgarh tehsil is an eastern tehsil among the 13 tehsils in Jodhpur District. It borders Nagaur Dist ...

to the north,

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to the northeast,

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to the east and south, and Luni tehsil and

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to the west.

History

Bilara tehsil was part of the

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Economy

The economy of the tehsil is mainly based on agriculture and related businesses.

Demographics

In the 2001 census, the Bilara tehsil had 251,946 inhabitants, with 130,451 males (51.8%) and 121,495 females (48.2%), for a gender ratio of 931 females per thousand males. In 2001, the tehsil was 71.7% rural.

Points of interest

The

Marwari people The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. Their language, also called Marwari, comes under the umbrella of Rajasthani la ...

inhabit most of Bilara tehsil, and one can see typical Marwari customs and culture in the town of Bilara, and in villages throughout the tehsil.

Villages

There are forty panchayat villages in Bilara tehsil: *

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*Bhawi * Binjwadia *

Borunda Borunda is a town in Bilada tahsil of Jodhpur district in Rajasthan. It is famous as the home of the Rupayan Sansthan and its founder Vijaydan Detha, well known writer and folklorist. Geography Borunda is located at . Demographics Census ...

* Boyal * Buchkalla * Chandelao *Chirdhani * Choda * Ghana Magra or Ghana Mangra * Hariyada * Hariyadhana * Jetiwas * Jhak * Kalauna * Kaparda *Khariya Mithapur *Khejarla * Lamba * Madaliya * Malawas * Malkosani * Nanan *

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*Pichiyak * Ramasani * Ramdawas * Ransi gaon *Rawniyana * Rawar * Rinya *Sambariya * Silari * Sindhipuri *Tilwasni * Udaliyawas

Notes

Tehsils of Rajasthan Jodhpur district {{Jodhpurdivision-geo-stub