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HOW / WHY?
The word "Dharwad" means a place of rest in a long travel or a small habitation. For centuries, Dharwad acted as a gateway between Malenaadu(western mountains) and Bayalu seeme (plains) and it became a resting place for the travelers. Another theory is, during VijayaNagara rule of Dharwad, there was a ruler by name "Dharav" (1403 AD) and Dharwad got its name from him. There are some inscriptions that refer to Dharwad as KampaNa Sthana.
HOW OLD IS DHARWAD?
The inscriptions found near Durga Devi temple, in Narendra( a village near by) and RLS high school date back to 12th century and have references to Dharwad. This proves that Dharwad existed in 12th century and it is now at least 900 years old!!!!..
HISTORY:
DHARWAD FORTChalukyas ruled Dharwad during 12th century. A stone inscription indicates that there was ruler by the name BhaskaraDeva in 1117 AD. Later Dharwad became a part of the Vijayanagara empire. After then fall of the Vijayanagara empire(1453 AD), Bijapur's Adil Shah captured Dharwad and built a fort. The fort area was called MannaKille, and later Nazratabad. With this fort , the strategic importance of Dharwad increased and it thus became part of everyone's empire, Auranjeb, Shivaji ,Auranjeb's son Mu Azam, Peshwe Balaji Rao, Hidar Ali, Tipu Sultan and finally British. During early 19th century , when British were expanding their kingdom , they faced lot of opposition from local rulers.To mention two of them, Baba Saheb of Naragund and Kittur Rani Chennamma.
Dharwad was peaceful for much part of late the 19th century. During those times, the British started English Medium school in Dharwad in 1848 and in 1856, started town municipality. Later in 1863, the Bassel Mission organization started another school. In 1867 British opened another school, Varmal school, which later on became known as Training college. In 1883, the municipality area included Sidapur, Lakamanhalli, Haveri Pete, Bagtalan, Madihal, Galaganjikop, Malapur, Kamalapur, Narayanpur, Saptapur, Atti kolla and Hosayellapur. The British government also established the Railway station in 1888.
Vidyavardha Sanga:
VIDYAVARDHAKA SANGHAThe Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha was established in 1890. The Sangha brought people of Dharwad together to excel in various fields like art , music , drama , culture and freedom struggle . The Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha's one of the greatest contribution, is uniting Kannada speaking population and the formation of Karnataka. Aluru Venkatraya was at the fore front of the "Unite Karnataka" movement. During the early 20th century, importance of Dharwad increased and it soon became a center of freedom struggle. The first political conference in Karnataka was held in Dharwad (1920). During non cooperative movement (1921), the first ever police firing in whole of India took place in Dharwad. Dharwad participated actively in Khilafat and Quit India movements. There were many police firings and lathi charges on people of Dharwad. A monument stands in the center of Dharwad in the memory of those who died in the struggle.
From 1947 Aug 15 to 1956 Oct 31, the district of Dharwad was in the Bombay province as the British Govt. divided it. On the 1st Nov 1956, after the state reorganization based on the language, Dharwad became part of Karnataka State.
1818 |
Dharwad came under complete British rule. General Munroe starts civil rule. |
1820 |
Post office and District Collector's offices are established. |
1820 |
Civil Magistrate's courthouse is built |
1821 |
Collector Thackeray commences land survey |
1824 |
Thackeray killed in the battle of Kittur by Rani Chennamma's forces |
1826 |
First Marathi school |
1830 |
Formation of the district of Dharwad |
1830 |
Civil hospital built. |
1831 |
First Kannada school |
1835 |
First Silver coin comes in to circulation |
1835 |
Samuel Hebik(?) arrives |
1836 |
Basel Mission is setup |
1840 |
Catholic Church is built. |
1843 |
Dramerker(?) notes that Dharwad is the ideal to grow American cotton |
1844 |
Hospital of mental health (mental hospital) established. |
1845 |
Sunday declared holiday for schools and govt. offices |
1848 |
Govt. English school established |
1849 |
Gurunath Rao Pathak founded the Sanskrit Pathashala |
1854 |
Lakshman Sripad Nagpurkar founded the Native General Library |
1855 |
Mail used to arrive in bullock carts |
1856 |
Municipality established |
1858 |
School for Juvenile criminals established |
1861 |
Venkat Rango Katti starts publishing the first Kannada monthly 'Gnanabodhaka' |
1861 |
District Magistrates court house established. |
1863 |
Basel Mission High School established |
1865 |
Mens' Training college publishes the 'Vara Patrike' weekly |
1866 |
Chennabasappa appointed Deputy Director of education |
1866 |
Cholera epidemic in Dharwad |
1867 |
A cloth Import/export commences |
1868 |
First Girl's school established |
1870 |
Ziggler comes to Dharwad |
1872 |
Chickenpox epidemic in Dharwad |
1872 |
First common census done |
1873 |
Head Post office established |
1876 |
Ziggler writes the Kannada-English Dictionary |
1876 |
Mens' Training college building built |
1876 |
Kerosene import commences. |
1879 |
Karnataka school of Music (Sangeeta shale) established |
1882 |
School started in Kamanakatti. Later this is to be known as the Victoria High school |
1882 |
Southern Maratha Railway lays Meter gage railway |
1883 |
Lingayat Abhivriddhi Samsthe started in Chennamallappa Tenginakai's house in Adiki Oni |
1884 |
Dharwad upgraded to City Municipality |
1885 |
Telegraph office becomes operational |
1886 |
Dharwad Gymkhana Club established |
1887 |
Railway office started which later becomes the Karnatak College |
1888 |
Dharwad-Vasco Railway commences operation |
1889 |
Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha founded by R.H (Ra ha) Deshpande |
1895 |
Shivaji and Ganesh festivals introduced by Balgangadhar Tilak |
1895 |
Mitra Samaj Club established |
1895 |
Women's training college founded |
1896 |
Vagbhushana magazine started |
1896 |
'Veni Samhara' - the Sanskrit play staged for the first time |
1896 |
Severe famine hits Dharwad |
1897 |
a place near the fort area allotted to the Lingayat Abhivriddhi Samsthe which later becomes known as the Town hall |
1898 |
Plague hits the city |
1902 |
The Theosophical society founded. |
1907 |
Tilak visits Dharwad and delivers speech on the Anjuman college grounds |
1907 |
Southern Maratha co-operative bank established which is later known as Mahalakshmi Urban co-op bank |
1908 |
Minister Mure McKenzy suggests to Rodda Srinivasa Rao about founding the Karnatak College for higher education |
1911 |
Water supply started from the Kelageri tank |
1912 |
Vocalist Rehmat Khan settles in Dharwad |
1913 |
Hukkerikar Ramaraya appointed the principal of the Victoria High School. |
1914 |
Karnataka historical research center founded |
1915 |
Lokamanya Tilak visits again. |
1916 |
KCC bank established by Shantaveerappa Menshinkai |
1917 |
Karnatak College is built |
1918 |
Murugha Math Prasada Nilaya established |
1919 |
Motor vehicles arrive |
1920 |
Bharat Scouts and Guides school established |
1921 |
Karnataka Education society's aided college commences. Rangular(?) Katti appointed principal. Datar and Divakar appointed teachers. |
1920 |
Hukkerikar Ramrao appointed principal of Victoria High School; Shamba Joshi, D.R Bendre and Khanolkar serve as teachers |
1920 |
Mahatma Gandhi visits |
1920 |
Dharwad-Savadatti bus service started by Yamanappa Talvai |
1921 |
Three Khilafat activists die in police firing near Jakani Bhavi |
1921 |
Lala Lajpat Rao visits |
1922 |
KLE society founded. Hostel for Lingayat students established |
1927 |
General strike against the Simon Commission |
1928 |
Mallasarjana Vyayama Shala (gym) established |
1930 |
Rangarao Divakar arrested for selling salt without paying tax. (The Dandi walk importance) |
1930 |
Hukkerikar Ramrao, D.P Karmarkar and N.B Kabbur bring down the Union Jack Flag on top of the municipality building. |
1931 |
Non cooperation movement in heat |
1932 |
The harijans allowed to enter temples and wells |
1933 |
Karnatak Natya Vilasi havyasi Nataka society founded by well known playwright Sriranga |
1936 |
First Telephone exchange established |
1936 |
Alur Venkatrao inspires to observe Dasara as the state festival |
1936 |
Salunke participates in the Indian hockey team in the Berlin Olympics |
1936 |
6th unification function presided by Dattopant Dalvi |
1937 |
Strike in favor of establishing the Karnatak University |
1938 |
Betageri Krishnasharma publishes the 'Jayanti' monthly magazine. Geleyara Gumpu (formed by Bendre) starts the monthly 'Jeevana' |
1938 |
Subhash Chandra Bose visits. Hosamani Siddappa joins Bose's Forward Block |
1938 |
World famous Bill Tilden and Henry Kosh(?) play tennis in the Rajyadhyaksha Pavilion |
1939 |
Bose revisits |
1940 |
Veer Savarkar visits |
1942 |
Quit India movement influences Dharwad. |
1942 |
Effort to burn the Karnatak College office building |
1942 |
Two girls - Vimal Gulvadi and Shinolekar hoist the Tricolor Indian flag at the district collector's office. |
1944 |
K.E.Board's Arts College founded, later known as JSS College. |
1947 |
Agriculture College (now UAE) established |
1947 |
Janata Shikshana Samiti founded |