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53 unusual facts about Karnataka


Abd Allah ibn Abbas

Al Hakim records on the authority of ibn Abbas that Mohammed advanced, carrying upon his neck Hassan ibn Ali, and a man met him and said, 'an excellent steed thou ridest, lad!'.

Akkasaliga

Akkasaliga is a community of people residing in the state of Karnataka.

Alipur Sign Language

It is spoken in the town of Alipur, Karnataka, which is a self-imposed Muslim enclave with a high degree of congenital deafness in a largely Hindu region.

Anandur

Anandur, Karnataka, a village in Mysore Taluka, Mysore District, Karnataka, India

Arga

Arga, Karnataka, a village in Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka, India

Baba Budan

Baba Budan was a 17th-century Sufi, revered by both Muslims and Hindus, whose shrine is at Baba Budangiri, Karnataka, India.

Badaganadu Brahmins

The mother tongue of Badaganadu community has been Kannada, and are largely spread around the northern parts of Karnataka, Bellary and Anantapur districts, Bangalore, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Holenarasipura, Madhugiri, Tumkur and other parts of Karnataka.

Bangalore International Film Festival

The Bangalore International Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Bangalore, capital of Indian state Karnataka, which previews films of all genres including documentaries from around the world.

Brown palm civet

The brown palm civet's distribution extends from the southern tip of Western Ghats in Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve to Castle Rock in Goa to the north.

Cascia High School

It offers high school education in both English & Kannada mediums under the Karnataka board of secondary education.

Clarence Public School

Clarence Public School is a public school in the Bangalore South taluk of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Comat Technologies

Comat has been involved in several projects that have eased people's access to essential information based services, especially in the State of Karnataka.

Formiscurra

The holotype was collected in the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences at Bangalore in the state of Karnataka in India.

G. Vidyaraj

He is a direct descendant of the rulers of the Vijayanagar raja of Hampi in Karnataka, which is where he claims the rubies originate from.

Ghaisas

Over a period of time these Ghaisas migrated to different places like Pune, Mumbai, Trimbakeshwar and in the states of Karnataka, Goa and Gujarat for livelihood.

Govt sksjti

This institution being the first of its kind in South India with a view to provide well trained personnel for higher rungs of the organized textile industry covering various facets of the industry, is growing in its heights year after year and today it can claim to be the tallest institution and is under the control of the Department of Technical Education, Government of Karnataka.

Hindu priest

Traditionally, priests have come from the Brahmin class, although in various parts of India, people from other communities (such as Lingayats in parts of Karnataka) have performed the function.

Hyderabad-Karnataka

The Hyderabad-Karanataka region comprises Gulbarga, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal, Bidar and Bellary districts in the present state of Karnataka, The Hyderabad-Karanataka region is the second largest arid region in India.

Indian aurochs

The youngest known remains, which clearly belong to wild Indian aurochs are from Banahalli in Karnataka, southern India, with an age of about 4200 years old.

Indian Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre

Situated in Vimanapura Post of Bangalore, Karnataka, the centre has produced more than 50 satellites including the INSAT series, the IRS series, as well as the GSAT communication satellites.

Indian wine

The altitude of India's vineyards typically range from around 660 ft (200 m) in Karnataka, 984 ft (300 m) in Maharashtra, 2,600 ft (800 m) along the slopes of the Sahyadri to 3,300 ft (1000 m) in Kashmir.

INSAT-3C

All the transponders provide coverage over India.Insat-3C is controlled from the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Kanpur

--MAKES NO SENSE!!The school promotes national integration through migration policy from Hindi speaking areas to non Hindi speaking areas vice versa.--> The third language of the school is Kannada and migration linkage is with the JNV Bijapur Karnataka state.

Jivaraj Papriwal

Today the images can be seen in Punjab, Haryana, Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, installed by Jivaraja in temples of the Digambar and Shvetambar sects.

Kangralkar

The surname originates from the name of a village Kangrali near the city of Belgaum in Karnataka, India.

Kannadanadu

The term has several different connotations which in modern usage is generally another name for the southern state of Karnataka.

Kanteerava Studios

In 2005, the State Government initiated a proposal to revive the studio by leashing in private firms for the maintenance.

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The state government declared a state-wide holiday on 13 April as a mark of respect to the departed soul, who was also a recipient of Karnataka Ratna (pearl of Karnataka) award.

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The studio was started with the Government of Karnataka holding 93 per cent of the share capital and the remaining 7 per cent by private shareholders.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children Film

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children Film is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Regional film

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Regional Film is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actress is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards.

Koti and Chennayya

Koti and Chennayya were born to the Deye Baidethi of the Billava people of Tulu Nadu in the state of Karnataka.

Kundu Special

The most popular tours on Kundu Special were their comprehensive 2-week tours of Madhya pradesh, Bombay Goa, Rajasthan, Gujrat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and Kashmir and their many pilgrimages to Kedar-Badri, Yamunetri-Gangotri, etc.

Kurli

Kurli, Karnataka, a village in Belgaum district, Karnataka state, India

Mallikarjun Bande

Bande's hospitalization and his eventual death drew considerable public attention and sparked intense socio-political debate in Karnataka and himself being scaled up to a heroic and cult figure among the public.

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During the treatment phase bande's family had requested the Karnataka government to shift him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for further treatment.

Matte mungaru

Matte Mungaru is the real life story of an ordinary guy Narayana Mandhagadde from Shimoga district in Karnataka.

Mattu Pongal

Though the name of the festival is specific to Tamil Nadu, in India, it is also celebrated in other southern states such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Miyar House

It tells the personal story of the director as his ancestral house gets dismantled in a remote village called Miyar in Karkala Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka, South India.

Nagarik Seva Trust

Nagarika Seva Trust is an organisation that emerged between 1972-1973 in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, India.

Navodaya Vidya Samasthe

The school was founded as an English medium School in Kurboor, Chintamani taluk, Chikballapur District in 1987.

Patharkar

Individuals withPatharkar surname are mostly found in the following states, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka India.

Rama Raghoba Rane

Major Rama Raghoba Rane, PVC (Konkani: रामा राघोबा राणे), was born on 26 June 1918 at Chendia, Karwar, Karnataka, India and died July 11, 1994 at Southern command Hospital in Pune.

Shri Guru Madiwaleshwara

Shri Guru Madiwaleshwara - saint whose resting place is small town called Garag near Dharwad, Karnataka state in India.

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Hogenakkal water dispute hunger strike: During May 2008, president R. Sarathkumar organized a one-day hunger strike opposing the Karnataka government's controversial plan of the Hogenakkal Integrated Drinking Water Project and the abuse of Tamils in the state of Karnataka.

Spring Zouk

Spring Zouk is the name of a festival in which was held February 3–5, 2012 at Udupi beach on at St Mary's Islands in Karnataka, India.

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

In 2010, Sachin A. Punekar and P. Lakshminarasimhan published the new species S. darwinii from Western Ghats of Karnataka, India.

Talagunda pillar inscription

The pillar is located beside the Śiva temple of Prāṇaveśvara in Talagunda village, Shikaripur taluk in Shimoga district, Karnataka, India.

The Sword of Tipu Sultan

A total of 52 episodes were shot, some of them in the Premier Studios in Mysore, Karnataka.

Uchila

Uchila may refer to any of the following places in Karnataka, India.

Wadi Junction railway station

Wadi Junction railway station is located in Gulbarga district in the Indian state of Karnataka and serves Wadi.

Y. G. Parameshwara

In 1979, he was appointed Health Officer and Assistant Surgeon in the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka.


Aldhal

Aldhal, Shahapur, village in Shahapur Taluka, Yadgir District, Karnataka, India

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Aldhal, Shorapur, panchayat village in Shorapur Taluka, Yadgir District, Karnataka, India

Ayas Shilpa

Ayas Shilpa is a privately held company based in Sullia, Karnataka, India, specializing in the construction of low-cost suspension bridges.

Azim Premji University

The University campus is located on Hosur Road on the outskirts of Bangalore in Karnataka, India, which is a leased premise.

Carmel High School, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore

Carmel High School, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore is a co-educational recognized private unaided institution, located at Judges Colony, Basaveshwaranagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Chitpavan

But in Dakshina Kannada District and Udupi Districts of Karnataka, this language is being spoken in places like Durga and Maala of Karkala taluk and also in places like Shishila and Mundaje of Belthangady Taluk.

D. C. Pavate

After returning from England, Pavate was appointed as Educational Commissioner of Bombay-Karnataka.

Datta Jayanti

The temples dedicated to Dattatreya are located throughout India, the most important places of his worship are in Karnataka,Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat like Ganagapur in Karnataka near Gulbarga, Narasimha Wadi in the Kolhapur district, Pithapuram in Andhra Pradesh near Kakinada, Audumbar in Sangli district and Girnar in Saurashtra.

Dhanaji Jadhav

During 1689 – 1690, Santaji and Dhanaji were directed to prevent the Mughal army in Maharashtra to enter into Karnataka after Rajaram’s flight to Gingee.

Gattahalli

This Ashram conducts Free Eye Camp across Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on every year and provides food and shelter for people who undergo eye operation.

Ghatak Force

Most undergo training at the Commando Training Course in Belgaum, Karnataka.

Gnana Saraswati Temple, Basar

Historically, 'Bijialudu' a Karnataka king, who ruled the province of Nandagiri with Nanded as his capital in the sixth century, constructed the temple at Basara.

Goans

Goans have been migrating all along the coast and across the world for the last six centuries because of many socio-religious and economic reasons, the diaspora are commonly known as the Konkani people, residing in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Kerala who do not refer to themselves as Goans.

Gonzalo Carrera

Carrera has also previously worked with Spanish progressive rock band Galadriel and British-American progressive rock band Quasar, as well as on solo projects by former members of Hawkwind (Huw Lloyd-Langton), Jethro Tull (Clive Bunker and Glenn Cornick), Karnataka (Nick May), The Nice (David O'List), and Yes (Peter Banks).

Govardhana sila

The only other God who shows a twig with a gunja seed on his upturned right hand palm to indicate the divya ksehtra’s superiority over Kashi (Varanasi) is Lord Narasimha, in the Gunja Narasimha Swamy temple locaterd at T.Narsipur in Mysore district in Karnataka on the bank of the Kaveri - Kapila - Spatika Sarovar sangam (confluence).

Heronry

This heronry, in the Tumkur district of Karnataka, was first made known to the outside world in 1999 by members of the Tumkur-based NGO Wildlife Aware Nature Club.

Ingalagi

Ingalagi, Kundgol, a village in Kundgol taluk of Dharwad district of Karnataka, India

International Center For Management and Indian Studies

International Center for Management and India Studies (ICMIS) is a small educational institution, located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Jwalamalini

The place where Helacharya propounded his system is described as Malaya Hemagrama in the south identifiable with Maleyur in the Chamrajnagar Taluk of the Mysore district in the state of Karnataka.

Kamalapuram

Kamalapura (sometimes written Kamalapuram), a town in Gulbarga district, Karnataka, India

Kannur International Airport

More than 8 roads are to be developed for connecting to the Airport, which includes Kannur (Melechovva)-Mattannur road, Thalassery-Mattannur road, Thalassery–Anjarakandy–Airport road, Thalassery–Nadapuram Road, Karnataka Border (Koottupuzha/Makutta) – Mattannur Road, Wayanad (Mananthavadi) – Nedumpoil – Mattannur road, Payyanur/Ezhimala–Mattannur road, Thalassery–Mahe Bypass, etc.

Kodagu Gowda

Shobha Karandlaje, BJP Leader and Minister, Government of Karnataka

Kurma

There are three temples dedicated to this incarnation of Vishnu in India, Kurmai of Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh, Sri Kurmam in Andhra Pradesh, and Gavirangapur in the Chitradurg District of Karnataka.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Mallikarjun Bande

He started his career in Karnataka police as a Constable in 1997 and went on to become a police sub-inspector and worked in different parts of northern Karnataka.

Mallur

Mallur, Karnataka, a village in Bangalore district, Karnataka, India

Manjula Gururaj

She was awarded by a special jury from Karnataka State Government as the Best Voice for the film Beladingala Baale, in which she lent her voice for the heroine who was heard, but not seen.

Morya Gosavi

According to one version of the story, Morya was born in Bidar, Karnataka.

Nevromus austroindicus

It was formally described in 2012 on the basis of specimens from the Karnataka Western Ghats of Kottigehara with some specimens also obtained from near Sampaje.

People's Biodiversity festival

The main panelist were Mr. C. Madegowda from Karnataka, Mr. Subhash Majhi from Orissa, Mr. Somaru Baiga from Chattisgarh, Mr. Venkateshwarulu from Vishakapattanam, Ms. Suman Koreti from Chattisgarh, Mr. Pablo Solon from Bolivia (exec. director, FOCUS)

Prajavani

Some analysts have also attributed this to the launch of Vijaya Vani, by the original owner of Vijaya Karnataka, Vijay Sankeshwar and his VRL Group.

South Zone cricket team

It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

Mary's Basilica is a basilica located in the Archdiocese of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka.

University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore was entrusted territorial jurisdiction over 15 southern districts of Karnataka comprising nearly fifty percent of the total area of the state, while the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, was given jurisdiction over the remaining area in the northern districts of the state.

Venkata Rao

Aluru Venkata Rao, was one of the most eminent leaders of the Karnataka Ekikarana movement.

Vikrama Chola

Here is an excerpt of his inscription(Grantha and Tamil) from Chintamani, Karnataka mentioning the decimation of Kalinga while he was still a co-regent of his father.

Vishuva Sankranti

Maha Vishuva Sankranti is similar to the New Year festivals observed elsewhere in India such as Baisakhi (Punjab), Bihu (Assam), Juir Sheetal (Mithila), Naba Barsha (Bengal), Bisu Parba (Tulu Nadu region in Karnataka), Vishu (Kerala), and Puthandu (Tamil Nadu).

Y. G. Parameshwara

-- dates of birth and death?? --> a medical doctor in the state of Karnataka, India.