Mavli 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 ...

Udaipur district Udaipur district is one of the 50 districts of Rajasthan state in western India. The historic city of Udaipur is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is part of the Mewar region of Rajasthan. History Before Udaipur d ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; Literal translation, lit. 'Land of Kings') is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the List of states and union territories of ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

.The tehsil consists of 179 revenue villages which are organized in 42 gram panchayats and one

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

(

Mavli Mavli is a town (Nagar Palika) in Udaipur district in Rajasthan, India. The Mavli Junction railway station is under the Ajmer railway division of the North Western Railway zone of Indian Railways that connects Marwar Junction, Chittaurgarh ...

). The tehsil headquarter is located in the town of

. The boundaries of Mavli tehsil are conterminous with those of Mavli

panchayat samiti Panchayat samiti or block panchayat is a rural local government ( panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) or block level in India. It works for the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. It has b ...

History

Before the formation of the Republic of India, the territory of present-day Mavli 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 Mavli tehsil.

Geography

The area of Mavli tehsil is 837 square kilometres. The tehsil is bordered by

Girwa tehsil Girwa is a tehsil of Udaipur district, Rajasthan, India. The administrative headquarter of the tehsil is located in the City of Udaipur. History Before the formation of the Republic of India, the territory of present-day Girwa tehsil was par ...

to the west,

Rajsamand district Rajsamand District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Rajsamand is the district headquarters. The district was constituted on 10 April 1991 from Udaipur district by carving out 7 tehsils - Bhim, Deogarh, Am ...

to the north, Chittaurgarh district to the east, and

Vallabhnagar tehsil Vallabhnagar is a tehsil of Udaipur district in Rajasthan, India. History Before the formation of the Republic of India, the territory of present-day Vallabhnagar tehsil was part of the former Udaipur State. With the formation of the United St ...

to the south. The annual average rainfall in Mavli tehsil is 604 mm, with an average of 30 rainy days per year. 22 villages of Mavli 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 ...

Demographics

The population of Mavli tehsil is 230,532, of which 96% is classified as rural in the 2011 census. The sex ratio in the tehsil is 967. The tehsil's literacy rate is 52%.

Mewari Mewari is an Indo-Aryan language of the Rajasthani languages group. It is spoken by about five million speakers in Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pratapgarh districts of Rajasthan state and Mandsaur, Neemuch districts of Madh ...

is the predominant language used in the tehsil, being the

first language A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period hypothesis, critical period. In some countries, the term ''native language'' ...

for 98% of the population of the tehsil.

Economy

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

is a significant sources of income in Mavli tehsil with 57% of workers identifying as cultivators or agricultural labourers in the 2011 census.

References

{{reflist Tehsils of Rajasthan Tehsils of Udaipur district