Nilanga

Nilanga

Nirlingpur
Nilanga Nirlingpur
Town
	Nilanga

Nilanga is a town with a

Headquarter

.

History of Nilanga

Nilanga is located on the border with Karnataka. It was under the Nizam regime until the Nizam territory merged with India. Nizam of Hyderabad had appointed vatandars under the landlord system and had appointed vatandars one of essentially managing all administrative work and tax collection. The Vatandars or essentially landlords were extremely rich people who had authority to manage the areas and ensure well being until Nizam merged this territory in India.

Agriculture

Nilanga is an agricultural town as a fact most of people in this town are in agriculture also. It is one of the most drought affected districts in Maharashtra and also is one of highest number of farmer suicides in Maharashtra.

Political importance

This town is famous as it is hometown of former chief minister of Maharashtra.

Demographics

As of 2011^[update] India

Taluka in Maharashtra for Farmer Suicides

.

Marathi is widely spoken in the region. Kannada and Hindi are also spoken by some in the town.

Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 19.42% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 1.98% of total population in Nilanga.^[1]

Religions in Nilanga
Religion			Percent
Hindus			70%
Buddhists			10%
Muslims			16%
Christians			0.2%
Jains			3.4%
Others†			0.4%
Distribution of religions †Includes Sikhs (0.2%), OBC, VJNT (<0.2%).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Nilanga town population". census2011. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
^ "Assembly Constituencies-Post delimitation: Maharashtra: Latur District" (PDF). National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2013.
^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

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[census2011-1] "Nilanga town population". census2011. Retrieved 19 July 2015.

[2] "Assembly Constituencies-Post delimitation: Maharashtra: Latur District" (PDF). National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2013.

[3] "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

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