SSA - Karnataka Davangere District DEEP Annual Plan 2001-2002

Abstract

From District Background: The name ‘DAVANAGERE’ is derived from the word - “DAVANE” which means a rope, in Kannada, used for tieing the cattle and horses by the village sojourns on the banks of a big lake existed then. In course of time, in the year 1811 the nomenclature of the small village having about five hundred houses had been changed to Davanagere. It is said that Hyder Ali gave it as a jahgir to a Maratha Chief named Appajiram who encouraged merchants to settle there. Appajiram died without heirs but the place destined to be what it is today, fortunately, continued to receive encouragement from Tippu sultan and the succeeding rulers.