Kitahatu is a village in
Murhu block,
Khunti district
Khunti district is one of the twenty-four districts in South Chotanagpur division of the Indian States and territories of India, state of Jharkhand. The district of Khunti was carved out of Ranchi district on 12 September 2007. , it is the second ...
, in the
India
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n state of
Jharkhand
Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...
.
Geography
Location
Kitahatu is located at .
Area overview
In the adjacent map the area shown is “undulating and covered with hills, hillocks and jungles (jungles/ forests are shown as shaded area in the map). The soil of the area is rocky, sandy and red loam upland. There are paddy fields only in the depressions. It has a gentle slope adjacent to the streams.” A major part of the district is in the altitude range of , with up to ± 200 m for some parts. In 2011, it had a density of population of 210 persons per sq km. Khunti is an overwhelmingly rural district with 91.5% of the population living in rural areas. Famous places in this area are
Ulihatu
Ulihatu is a village in the Arki CD block in the Khunti Sadar subdivision of the Khunti district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Geography
Location
Ulihatu is located at
The place is surrounded by hills. It is 40 km from Khunti and ...
, the birth place of
Bhagwan Birsa Munda, and Dombari Buru, the central point of his activity.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Weaving
Traditional cotton
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s, now used only in the tribal marriage ceremony, presented to the bride by the groom's family and
ronoh (a designed cloth made of two separate pieces of light maroon and off-white hand-woven cotton sewn together and presented as a wedding gift to the groom) are woven in Kitahatu on handmade handlooms. It is a
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Munda may refer to:
Places India
* Munda, a village in Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, India
* Munda Majra, a former village in Haryana, India
* Munda Pind, a village in Punjab, India
Pakistan
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(tribal) community.
The nearest rural marketplace is at about in the direction of Khunti, at
Soyko. Soyko's is a bustling market where lac, and other forest produce can be found.
Demographics
According to the
2011 Census of India, Kitahatu had a total population of 926, of which 457 (49%) were males and 469 (51%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 138. The total number of literate persons in Kitahatu was 575 (72.97% of the population over 6 years).
(*For language details see
Murhu block#Language and religion)
References
Villages in Khunti district
Handloom industry in India
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