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  2. Uppinangady - Wikipedia

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    Uppinangady is the 2nd largest urban area in Puttur Taluk. The town of Uppinangady is situated at an altitude of 53 meters. Uppinangady is also known as "Dakshina Kashi". It is believed that there is also a sangam of a third river along with the other two rivers which is known as Guptagamini.

  3. Surathkal - Wikipedia

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    Surathkal is one of the major localities [1] in the northern part of Mangalore city located on National highway 66 (previously as NH-17) in the Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka state, India on the shore of Arabian sea. It is a municipality merged with Mangalore City Corporation. It lies between Gurupura (Phalguni) and Pavanje (Nandini) rivers.

  4. Chamarajanagar - Wikipedia

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    Chamarajanagar. / 11.9260; 76.9402. Chamarajanagar or Chamarajanagara is a town in the southern part of Karnataka, India. Named after Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the erstwhile Raja of Mysore, previously known as 'Arikottara'. Chamarajanagara is the headquarters of Chamarajanagar district. It is located on the interstate highway linking the ...

  5. Banashankari - Wikipedia

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    Banashankari, commonly abbreviated as BSK, is a locality spread across South and West Bangalore. Its name is derived from the Banashankari Amma Temple on Kanakapura Road, one of Bangalore's renowned temples constructed by Subramanya Shetty in 1915. [1] Banashankari temple (2013) Banashankari is the largest locality in Bangalore, stretching from ...

  6. Girinagar - Wikipedia

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    Girinagar is at a lower altitude (865 m) compared to the rest of Bengaluru, which has an average elevation of 900 m. It is very hilly, with steep roads – being on the slope of a hill with a plateau on top. To the west of Girinagar is a hill, known as Hirannayya Gudda in Kannada. Girinagar lies in the Vrishabhavathi Valley region of Bengaluru.

  7. Caste system in India - Wikipedia

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    Caste system in India. Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.

  8. Vamsha Vriksha - Wikipedia

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    166 minutes [2] Country. India. Language. Kannada. Vamsha Vriksha (The genealogy tree), is a 1971 Indian Kannada-language film directed by B. V. Karanth and Girish Karnad, based on S. L. Bhyrappa 's novel of the same name. The film won the National Film Award for Best Direction. [3] It also won three Filmfare Awards in 1972.

  9. Mallur, Karnataka - Wikipedia

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    Mallur is a village in Channapatna Taluk in Ramanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka.Mallur is located on the banks of the river Kanva.The village is famous for its temples of Sri Ramaprameya Swamy, Aravindavalli and Ambegalu Navaneeta Krishna (crawling Krishna) This temple was built by the Great Chola dynasty, South Indian Tamil rulers maybe in the 12th century.