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46 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

Balle Mallarada Puje

Balle Mallarada Puje is a Hindu marriage ritual performed in some parts of Karnataka.

Bangalore Football Stadium

The state government in Karnataka even ordered an enquiry with the then PAC chairman Ekanthayya heading it.

Beary dialect

Beary Basse (Beary language) is an Indian language mainly spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of "Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts)" and some parts of Kerala ( "in some parts of Kasaragod district" ) who are known as Bearys (Byaris).

Bheema Theeradalli

The film's title apparently enraged the Korma community members in Karnataka.

BP Indian Public School, Malleswaram

It is located in a spacious building situated on 4th Main Road, Near 11th Cross, Malleswaram, Bangalore, Karnataka State, India.

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.

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School

Fatima Nursery, Primary and High School Bangalore ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka in India was started in 1974 by Mr M. Yella Singh (an ex-Army Officer) and Mrs Caroline as President of the School, with 37 teachers and 1000+ students.

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.

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.

Hanuman Jayanti

In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on Vaishaka Krishna Dashami (10th day of Krishna/Bahula Paksha in the month of Vaishaka).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Little Flower Public School

Little Flower Public School (or LFPS) is an unaided co-educational English medium school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

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.

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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.

Northern palm squirrel

The southern boundary on the Western Ghats side clearly extends to localities including Dhawar and Mysore, in Karnataka.

Our Lady of Victories Church, Kolar district, Karnataka

Our Lady of Victories Church is a Catholic church situated in the Kolar Gold Fields within the Kolar district, in the State of Karnataka in India.

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.

Rosario High School, Pandeshwar

The Rosario High School, recently renamed as Rosario Composite Pre-university, is a high school in Pandeshwar in the Indian state of Karnataka.

S. R. Bommai

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He also played an active role in the unification (Ekikarana in Kannada) of Karnataka which had been divided into Mysore kingdom, Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency, during the British rule.

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.

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.

Ugramm

The other locations where the movie was shot at include Chintamani, Kolar, Mysore, Gargeshwari, Nandigrama and Bangalore.

Wadi Junction railway station

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


Al-Ameen Pre University College

Al-Ameen Pre University College is one of the institution in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Al-Hilal English School, Manki

Al-Hilal English School is a not-for-profit school in Manki, Karnataka, which was founded in 1989 by late Mr. Sawood Hajika, and is managed by the Tarbiat Education Society.

Aldhal

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.

Basaveshvara Engineering College

Basaveshwara Engineering College (Autonomous) (also known as BEC) is a private co-educational engineering college located in Bagalkot, Karnataka, India.

Bhagamandala

Bhagamandala is located about 33 km from the district headquarters Madikeri and is connected by paved roads from Madikeri, Virajpet and nearby places in Karnataka and Kerala.

Citizens High School, Hoskote

Citizens High School is a secondary school in Hoskote, Karnataka, India.

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

On 20 November 1695, Kasimkhan; Aurangzeb’s powerful General in Karnataka, was attacked, defeated and killed by Santaji and Dhanaji at Doderi near Chitradurga.

Dodda Krishnaraja I

This division, and the resulting loss of revenue from the rich maidān region of Mysore, made Sadat-ulla Khan unhappy and, in collusion with the rulers of Kadapa, Kurnool, and Savanur and the Maratha Raja of Gutti, he decided to march against Dodda Krishnaraja.

Formiscurra

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

Gandaberunda

The Karnataka Government adopted this symbol as the state symbol and can be found on bus terminals and tickets issued by Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation.

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.

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.

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.

Japanese encephalitis vaccine

In 2013, an Indian firm, Bharat Biotech International, developed a vaccine by using the Indian strain of the virus collected from the Kolar district in Karnataka by the National Institute of Virology (NIV).

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.

Kalakundi

Kalakundi, India, a village in Dharwad district in the southwestern state of Karnataka, India

Kamalapuram

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

Karnataka Rakshana Vedike

The Vedike presented a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleging that historical bias by the colonial British administration against the Kingdom of Mysore was responsible for Karnataka being sidelined in favour of other states like Tamil Nadu.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Kurli

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

Lakshmi Tatma

She was the subject of a surgery carried out by Dr. Sharan Patil and 30 other physicians which included Chief Anesthetist Dr. Yohannan John at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, 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

Mahendra P. Lama

Prof Lama has also been nominated by the University Grants Commission for the Review Committee of the State Eligibility Test of Karnataka and also as a member of the prestigious Commonwealth Fellowship Selection Committee.

Malaya Marutha

The entire film is shot among the picturesque locales of Shringeri and Kolluru in Karnataka.

Mallur

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

Morya Gosavi

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

Muddenahalli-Sathya Sai Loka Seva School

Located in the twin towns of Muddenahalli-Kanivenarayanapura, the birthplace of legendary Indian engineer, Sri Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya in Kolar District of Karnataka State.

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.

Politics in South India

Karnataka's political environment is dominated by two rival caste groups — the Vokkaligas and the Lingayats.

Rajendra Chola II

Here is an excerpt from an inscription (begins with Tiru-magal maruviya śengōlavan..) of this king while he was still a co-regent of Rajadhiraja Chola I: (from Kolar in Karnataka, original in Tamil and Grantha);

Rattus satarae

It is native to the northern Western Ghats in India where it is split between three regions, Satara in Maharashtra, the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu and Kodagu district in Karnataka.

Samaga

Samaga is surname used by some of the members of Shivalli Madhva brahmin community of Udupi and Dakshina districts of Karnataka state, India.

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.

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.

Srujan Lokesh

Srujan Lokesh was born in Bangalore, Karnataka for popular Kannada film actor Lokesh and Girija Lokesh.

St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore

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

Stylidium subg. Andersonia

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

Uchila

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

Venkata Rao

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

Wroughton's free-tailed bat

In Karnataka, it is found in the Barapede Caves, located between Krishnapur and Talewadi, in Belgaum district, adjacent to the Bhimgad Wildlife Sanctuary near the state of Goa.

Y. G. Parameshwara

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