Mankeshwar observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
Nadahabba — the state festival. Bombe Habba doll steps at home; Mysuru Dasara is the public form, the Jamboo Savari procession on Vijayadashami carrying the Chamundeshwari idol on a decorated elephant.
The regional form observed across Karnataka. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Mankeshwar ranks #78 of 133 villages in Bhalki mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mankeshwar is a village of 1,186 people in 216 households (Census 2011) in Bhalki taluk, Bidar district, Karnataka, the 78th-largest of 133 villages in Bhalki taluk. Literacy is 67%, 6 points above the taluk average of 61% and the sex ratio is 983 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 585416, served by Hulsoor post office; the LGD village code is 599839. The village votes in Gulbarga Rural assembly constituency, represented by MLA Basawaraj Mattimudu. The population is estimated at 1,398 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Attarga →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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