Hoskote (historically known as Ooscota or Ooscata) is a taluk or city in

Bangalore Rural District Bengaluru Rural district is one of the 31 districts in Karnataka, India. It was formed in 1986, when Bangalore District was divided into Bangalore Rural and Bangalore Urban. Presently in Bangalore Rural district, Bengaluru North District ther ...

, India. Headquartered at the Hoskote town, it consists of five

hobli A hobli, nad or mágani is a cluster of adjoining villages administered together for tax and land tenure purposes in the states of Karnataka India. This clustering of villages was formed mainly to streamline the collection of taxes and maintenan ...

s - Kasaba , Anugondanahalli,

Jadigenahalli Jadigenahalli is a village in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. It is situated in the Hoskote Taluk of the Bangalore Rural district, Bangalore Rural district, 7 kilometers from Hoskote and 30 kilometers from Bangalore. The village is also ...

, Nandagudi and

Sulibele Sulibele is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India.Village code= 2177700 Sulibele, Bangalore Rural, Karnataka It is located in the Hosakote taluk of Bangalore Rural district. Demographics India census, Sulibele had a population ...

. There are 294 villages in Hoskote taluk including the 5

s. Also famous for Dum Biriyani's which is unique in taste.

History

Hoskote was a Jagir of Maratha warrior Shahaji Raje for around 50 years and also part of Swarajya of

Shivaji Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale, ; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the Sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the ...

. The

Battle of Ooscata Battle of Ooscota (or Ooscata) was a land battle in the First British-Mysore War, a conflict between the British East India Company and Hyder Ali, the sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore. It took place on the night of the 22–23 August 1768. Oos ...

in the

First British-Mysore War The First Anglo-Mysore War (1767–1769) was a conflict in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company. The war was instigated in part by the machinations of Asaf Jah II, the Nizam of Hyderabad, who sought to divert the ...

, on the night of 22–23 August 1768 took place here.

Demographics

India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Hoskote had a population of 219000. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Hoskote has an average literacy rate of 86.22%, higher than the state average of 75.36%: male literacy is 89.58%, and female literacy is 82.68%. Hoskote has 11.98% of its population under 6 years of age.

References

{{reflist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRd8Yzxq2Gg&t=134s Cities and towns in Bangalore Rural district

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