Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand, Indiai

Regional Level Types
Hazaribagh District	District
Jharkhand	State
India	Country

Hazaribagh district is one of the oldest districts of Jharkhand state, India, and the district headquarters is located in Hazaribagh town. It is located in the northeast part of North Chotanagpur Division. The boundary of this district consists of the districts of Gaya (Bihar) and Koderma in the north, Giridih and Bokaro in the east, Ramgarh in the south and Chatra in the west.

The district is named after its headquarters, the town of Hazaribagh. The name Hazaribagh consists of two Persian words, "hazar" meaning "one thousand", and "bagh" meaning "garden" — so, the literal meaning of Hazaribagh is 'the city of one thousand gardens'. According to Sir John Houlton, a veteran British administrator, the town takes its name from the small villages of Okni and Hazari – shown in old maps as Ocunhazry. The last syllable in its name probably originated in a mango-grove, which formed a camping ground for troops and travellers marching along the ‘new military road’ from Kolkata to Varanasi, constructed in 1782 and the following years.

There are ancient cave paintings in Isko, Hazaribagh district which are from the Meso-chalcolithic period (9,000-5,000 BC). There is a group of megaliths found close to Barkagaon that is about 25 km from Hazaribagh town at Punkri Barwadih, which has been proven to date back to beyond 3,000 BCE.

On 6 December 1972, Giridih district was split from Hazaribagh. In 1999 this happened again with the creation of Chatra and Koderma. Hazaribagh left Bihar when Jharkhand was formed on 15 November 2000. On 12 September 2007, yet another district was created from Hazaribagh's territory: Ramgarh.

Coal is the major commodity in this district. The significant coal deposit reserves of this district include Charhi, Kuju, Ghato Tand and Barkagaon of the North Karanpura Coalfield. The coal mines are the main source of livelihood for the residents of this district.

Patratu and Bhurkunda were also coal mines areas of Hazaribagh, but they are now in Ramgarh district.

In 2006, the Indian government named Hazaribagh one of the country's 250 most disadvantaged districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 21 districts in Jharkhand currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

The district is divided into two subdivisions: Hazaribagh and Barhi. Each of these consists of a number of Blocks (11 in Hazaribagh, 5 in Barhi).

Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences	39
Youngest Fossil Listed	252 Ma (Permian)
Oldest Fossil Listed	299 Ma (Carboniferous)
Stratigraphic Units	Unit No. Occurrences Age Raniganj 4 268.8 - 252.17 Ma (Permian) Barakar 9 279.3 - 272.3 Ma (Permian) Kulti 8 279.3 - 268.8 Ma (Permian) Karharbari 6 295.5 - 279.3 Ma (Permian) Talchir 12 298.9 - 290.1 Ma (Paleozoic)
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Accepted Name Hierarchy Age Cordaites genus Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Cordaitaceae : Cordaites 298.9 - 268.8 Ma Paleozoic Glossopteris genus Plantae : Tracheophyta : Rigbyaceae : Glossopteris 298.9 - 252.17 Ma Paleozoic Vertebraria genus Plantae : Peltaspermophyta : Arberiopsida : Arberiales : Vertebraria 290.1 - 272.3 Ma Permian Phyllotheca genus Plantae : Pteridophyta : Phyllotheca 295.5 - 290.1 Ma Permian Schizoneura genus Plantae : Tracheophyta : Polypodiopsida : Equisetales : Schizoneura 268.8 - 252.17 Ma Permian
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Other Databases

Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazaribagh_district
Wikidata ID:	Q1945416
GeoNames ID:	1270165

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