Dahod district
Dahod district is a district of Gujarat state in western India. This largely tribal district is mostly covered by forests and hills.
Geography
Dahod is located in eastern Gujarat. It is located at the tripoint between Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. It borders Rajasthan to the north, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Chhota Udaipur district to the south, Panchmahal district to the west and Mahisagar district to the north. The district has two areas: a region of scrubland in the western part of the district and hills in the east. All these areas are covered by forests. The district has several rivers flowing through it: the Panam, Khan, Kalutari, Machhan and Anas. These rivers are tributaries of the Mahi.History
was born in Dahod in 1618.Before Indian independence in 1947, Dahod district was part of the Sunth princely state. In October and November 1913 its villages were raided by the Bhils under Govindgiri who were encamped in the Mangarh Hills to the northeast.
Demographics
It was 8.99% urban at the 2001 census. The population of the district is mostly rural, and a majority of the district's residents are tribals, mostly Bhils. Dahod District also has the second largest population of the Dawoodi Bohra sect of Ismā'īlī Muslims in India.At the 2011 census Dahod District had a population of 2,127,086, roughly equal to the nation of Namibia or the US state of New Mexico. It was the 215th most populous district in India. The district had a population density of. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 29.95%. It had a sex ratio of 986 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 60.6%. 9.01% of the population lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 1.95% and 74.32% of the population respectively.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.29% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 2.14% Bhili and 1.18% Hindi as their first language.