Dhule District
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Dhule district धुळे जिल्हा |
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| District of Maharashtra | |
 Location of Dhule district in Maharashtra |
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| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| Administrative division | Nashik Division |
| Headquarters | Dhule |
| Tehsils | 1. Dhule, 2. Shirpur, 3. Sindkheda, 4. Sakri |
| Government | |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | 1. Dhule (shared with Nashik District), 2. Nandurbar (ST) (shared with Nandurbar District) (Based on Election Commission website) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,063 km2 (3,113 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,048,781 |
| • Density | 250/km2 (660/sq mi) |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 71.6% |
| • Sex ratio | 944 |
| Major highways | NH-3, NH-6, NH-211 |
| Average annual precipitation | 544 mm |
| Website | Official website |
Dhule district is a district of Maharashtra state in western region of India. The city of Dhule is the administrative headquarters of the district.
The Dhule district previously comprised tracts of land predominantly inhabited by tribal population. The Dhule district was then bifurcated on 1 July 1998 into two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurbar, the latter comprising the tribal region. Agriculture remains the basic profession of the population in this district. Most parts of the district are not under irrigation and thus cultivation heavily depends on regular Monsoon or rain water. Apart from wheat, bajra, jowar or jwari, onion the most favored commercial crop is cotton. Majority of the population in the rural area speaks Ahirani (a dialect of Marathi) language, however Marathi is more widely spoken in the urban areas. Around 26.11% population of Dhule district resides in urban area.
Dhule district is famous for the production of pure milk. Milk cattle used to be fed with cotton pend (cattle feed made by using cotton extract), which would produce rich quality milk. Customers in Delhi once upon a time used to wait for the delivery of milk from here.
Dondaicha in this district is the only town in the State to produce glucose, sugar, and other products from maize. District is also famous for production and market of chilies.
The Dhule District is a part of Maharashtra's historical region of Khandesh. Although for administrative purpose it is now clubbed to Nashik Division.
The district of Dhulia was previously known as West Khandesh district. The ancient name of this region was Rasika. It is bounded on the east by Berar (Ancient Vidarbha), on the north by the Nemad district (Ancient Anupa) and on the south by the Aurangabad (ancient Mulaka) and Bhir (ancient Asmaka) districts. Later the country came to be called as Seunadesa after the king, Seunchandra of the early Yadava dynasty, who ruled over it. Subsequently its name was changed to Khandesh to suit the title khan given to the Faruqi kings by King Ahmad I of Gujarat.
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