Bangalore Population 2024

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• Population Ranking
• Languages
• Religion
• History

Bangalore Population Ranking & Density

Religion wise Bangalore Population

According to 2011 census, Hindu population is 78.8%, Muslim population is 13.9% in Bangalore, followed by 5.6% Christianity, 1% of Jainism.
Source: 2011 Census: Language and Mother Tongue

Bangalore Language demographics

English is widely spoken in Bangalore by all sects of people, Kannada is official language in Bangalore and spoken by 46% of the population, but due to cosmopolitican Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Konkani is spoken by the migrants from the other states of India. The major communities who share a long history in the Bangalore city other than the local Kannadigas are the Telugus and Tamilians, who have migrated to Bangalore in search of a better livelihood.

Bangalore Population age wise

Bangalore population pyramid shows the gender difference between female and male as per the age wise. According to 2011 census, the population of 0-4 years, 340,232 are male and 321,653 are female, stable upto 15-19 years. From 60 to above 80 years, the population is declining more rapidly due to the less life expectancy.

Bangalore History

According to Urbanization of Bangalore, Bangalore was laid out in 1537 by Kempe Gowda-I whose ancestors were the Yelahanka Nadu Prabhus, with permission from the emperor of Vijayanagar. He constructed a mud fort which had four entry points/gates signifying the cardinal directions of north, east, west and south, namely Yelahanka gate, Halsoor gate, Kengeri gate and Anekal gate respectively. The layout inside the fort was mainly meant for commerce, divided into various 'Petes' (markets), namely Nagarth Pete, Ballapurada Pete, Taragu Pete, Bale Pete, Chikka Pete and each specialized in different commodities.

Within this township, the built space consisted of a stock of temples, tanks and agraharams. Dharmambudhi Tank, Kempambudhi Tank, Halsoor Tank, Karanjee Tank, Sampangi Tank, Kempapura agrahara Tank etc., and some of the tanks built by the later rulers. Bangalore was then surrounded by forests, agricultural fields, tanks and was dotted with temples. The town saw a second expansion in the year 1690 when it was bought from the Mughals by Chikka Devarajor Wodeya who after its acquisition the region fortified Bangalore with yet another fort, he built oval in shape fort to the south of the old Kempe Gowda fort. The main reason of building the second fort was to ensure the security of the principal town located within the first fort.

In 1759 Bangalore region was handed over to Haider Ali Khan as a personal jahgir by then the Mysore ruler. This was considering due to the strategic importance of Bangalore region in the context of rising of British power East India Company, the southern fort was built and strengthened by building it in stone.

The town of Bangalore in the 18th century was a major manufacturing and trading centre. To the north of the fort was the Pete where specific areas of markets were devoted to the buying and selling of commodities of trade i.e. cotton products in Aralepet, rice in Akkipet. Since the trade in a specific commodity was generally restricted to a particular caste, the areas were sometime named after the castes of the traders as in the case of Nagarthpet (related to cloth merchants called Nagarits). Agricultural products were available in abundance in the city due to hill station and gardens are farmed variety of vegetables, and the markets abounded with many of the necessaries of life. Bangalore importance as a commercial centre was not only confined to the needs of the surrounding region, it was connected to wider regions and beyond the boundaries of Mysore. It also catered to the court at Srirangapatna and also some far regions like Bidanur, Chitradurga, Gubbi, etc. There is a huge demand for the products even from the distant markets of the Middle East.

The Bangalore town was transformed after the British East India Company decided to set up its military establishment on civil and military stations at Bangalore in 1807. Basavanagudi and Malleswaram, a total of 34 extensions were planned from year 1894 and 1895 respectively, and were ready by 1898 covering 440 acres and the latter 281 acres. By the end of 18th century, new developments had transformed the region as never before. Bangalore had become a vast military camp, intensely active, with a mass of fighting forces 45,000 cavalry, 30,000 infantry, 10,000 Poleegar foot and 100 guns of great size, imported from France. Besides these fighting forces were a vast number of camp followers, whose duty was to collect forage and grain.

In 1880, The sewerage of the whole city area was improved by a combined system of underground sewers and open drains. In 1883, areas named as Benson Town, Cleveland Town and Richmond Town were completed, By 1884 Binny Mills became a part of the town. The industrialization of Bangalore town started attracting people from various places over a period of time from between 1881 and 1951, Historical population below.