Bandipore district (also spelt asBandipora orBandipur) is an administrativedistrict ofIndian-administeredJammu and Kashmir in the disputedKashmir region.[1] It is one of the 20 districts in the Jammu and Kashmir.Bandipore town is the administrative headquarters of the district. Bandipore is located in the foothills of the snow-clad peaks of Harmukh overlooking the shores ofWular Lake and has produced hundreds of scholars and intellectuals. The district is known for its tourist places such as Wular Vintage Park, Athwatoo and Gurez valley. Before 1947, this town was a big trade and literary centre of Kashmir. This district was carved out from the erstwhileBaramulla district in 2007. The district is bounded byKupwara district from the north,Baramulla district from west,Ganderbal district from the east,Kargil district inLadakh,Neelum District in Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir andAstore district in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan .Bandipore district is the only district inKashmir Division that shares border with Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan region. This district occupies an area of 398 km2.[5] The district has a population of 392,232 as per 2011 census.
The district comprises seven tehsils: Ajas, Aloosa, Bandipore, Sumbal, Hajin, Gurez and Tulail. The district has threeVidhan Sabha constituencies:Gurez, Bandipore andSonawari. All of these are part ofBaramulla Lok Sabha constituency.The district comprises twelve community development blocks: Aloosa, Arin, Baktoor, Bandipore, Bonkoot, Ganastan, Gurez, Hajin, Naidkhai, Nowgam, Sumbal and Tulail.
According to the2011 census Bandipore district has apopulation of 392,232,[10] roughly equal to the nation ofMaldives.[11] This gives it a ranking of 561st in India (out of a total of640).[10] The district has a population density of 1,117 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,890/sq mi) .[10] Itspopulation growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 26.31%.[10] Bandipore has asex ratio of 899females for every 1000 males[10] (this varies with religion), and aliteracy rate of 57.82%.[10]
Bandipore district: religion, gender ratio, and % urban of population, according to the 2011 Census.[8]
Hindu
Muslim
Christian
Sikh
Buddhist
Jain
Other
Not stated
Total
Total
8,439
382,006
572
555
44
17
2
597
392,232
2.15%
97.39%
0.15%
0.14%
0.01%
0.00%
0.00%
0.15%
100.00%
Male
8,061
198,322
380
520
40
8
0
349
207,680
Female
378
183,684
192
35
4
9
2
248
184,552
Gender ratio (% female)
4.5%
48.1%
33.6%
6.3%
9.1%
52.9%
100.0%
41.5%
47.1%
Sex ratio (no. of females per 1,000 males)
47
926
505
67
–
–
–
711
889
Urban
2,549
62,557
91
50
18
2
2
92
65,361
Rural
5,890
319,449
481
505
26
15
0
505
326,871
% Urban
30.2%
16.4%
15.9%
9.0%
40.9%
11.8%
100.0%
15.4%
16.7%
At the time of the 2011 census, 82.39% of the population spokeKashmiri, 8,82%Gojri, 4.18%Shina, 1.91%Pahari and 1.27%Hindi as their first language.[9]
^ab The application of the term "administered" to the various regions ofKashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by thetertiary sources (a) through (d), reflectingdue weight in the coverage. Although "controlled" and "held" are also applied neutrally to the names of the disputants or to the regions administered by them, as evidenced in sources (f) through (h) below, "held" is also considered politicized usage, as is the term "occupied," (see (i) below). (a)Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved15 August 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories."; (b)Pletcher, Kenneth,Aksai Chin, Plateau Region, Asia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved16 August 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "Aksai Chin, Chinese (Pinyin) Aksayqin, portion of the Kashmir region, at the northernmost extent of the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia. It constitutes nearly all the territory of the Chinese-administered sector of Kashmir that is claimed by India to be part of the Ladakh area of Jammu and Kashmir state."; (c)"Kashmir",Encyclopedia Americana, Scholastic Library Publishing, 2006, p. 328,ISBN978-0-7172-0139-6 C. E Bosworth, University of Manchester Quote: "KASHMIR, kash'mer, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, administered partlv by India, partly by Pakistan, and partly by China. The region has been the subject of a bitter dispute between India and Pakistan since they became independent in 1947"; (d)Osmańczyk, Edmund Jan (2003),Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1191–,ISBN978-0-415-93922-5 Quote: "Jammu and Kashmir: Territory in northwestern India, subject to a dispute betw een India and Pakistan. It has borders with Pakistan and China." (e)Talbot, Ian (2016),A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas, Yale University Press, pp. 28–29,ISBN978-0-300-19694-8 Quote: "We move from a disputed international border to a dotted line on the map that represents a military border not recognized in international law. The line of control separates the Indian and Pakistani administered areas of the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir."; (f)Kashmir, region Indian subcontinent, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved15 August 2019 (subscription required) Quote: "... China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region) since 1962."; (g)Bose, Sumantra (2009),Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, Harvard University Press, pp. 294, 291, 293,ISBN978-0-674-02855-5 Quote: "J&K: Jammu and Kashmir. The former princely state that is the subject of the Kashmir dispute. Besides IJK (Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The larger and more populous part of the former princely state. It has a population of slightly over 10 million, and comprises three regions: Kashmir Valley, Jammu, and Ladakh.) and AJK ('Azad" (Free) Jammu and Kashmir. The more populous part of Pakistani-controlled J&K, with a population of approximately 2.5 million. AJK has six districts: Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Bagh, Kodi, Rawalakot, and Poonch. Its capital is the town of Muzaffarabad. AJK has its own institutions, but its political life is heavily controlled by Pakistani authorities, especially the military), it includes the sparsely populated "Northern Areas" of Gilgit and Baltistan, remote mountainous regions which are directly administered, unlike AJK, by the Pakistani central authorities, and some high-altitude uninhabitable tracts under Chinese control." (h)Fisher, Michael H. (2018),An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, p. 166,ISBN978-1-107-11162-2 Quote: "Kashmir’s identity remains hotly disputed with a UN-supervised “Line of Control” still separating Pakistani-held Azad (“Free”) Kashmir from Indian-held Kashmir."; (i)Snedden, Christopher (2015),Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris, Oxford University Press, p. 10,ISBN978-1-84904-621-3 Quote:"Some politicised terms also are used to describe parts of J&K. These terms include the words 'occupied' and 'held'."
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^Srivastava, Dayawanti; et al., eds. (2010).India 2010, A Reference Annual(PDF). New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Indiaand. p. 1142.ISBN978-81-230-1617-7. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 29 December 2010. Retrieved21 January 2011.
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