Brand Town Bailhongal


Bailhongal is a Taluk in Belagavi district of Karnataka state in southern India. Bailhongal Taluk is located towards the north-east part of Belagavi. The taluk headquarters is about 44 km from the district headquarters. The total geographical area of the taluk is 1122.40 km2. There are 126 revenue villages and 14 hamlets with a total population of 356,400 people, according to the 2001 census.
There are important pilgrim places in the taluk. These include Bhartinand Swamiji Math Inchal, Sogal Someshwar Temple, Hafiz Bari Dargah, Markaz Masjid, and Jamia Masjid. There are also historical places like Kittur, where freedom fighters like Rani Chennamma and Sangolli Rayanna lived. Most of the agricultural land is controlled by the Malaprabha irrigation project. There are many educational institutes including talukas such as Saundatti, Gokak, Belagavi.

There is also proposal of make separate district of Bailhongal to easy administer the large Belagavi district including Kittur, Savadatti, Bailhongal and Ramdurg taluks with headquarters at Bailhongal. But the decision is yet to be pending because of district headquarter between Bailhongal and Gokak crash

Bailhongal is already a subdivision of Bailhongal, Kittur, Savadatti, Ramdurg, Gokak and Mudalgi talukas


Bailhongal is a major cotton ginning center in north Karnataka. The first cotton ginning and pressing mill was established in 1911. Agriculture is the main occupation of the Taluka. The crops grown mainly are cotton groundnut, corn, jowar, wheat, maize, and sugarcane.

TheAgricultural Product Market committie is a marketing board established by the state government of Karnataka has a market yard in Bailhongal since 1936. It facilitates farmers to sell their produce and get reasonable price constituted APMC in many towns. Most of the APMC have market yard where traders and other marketing agents are provided godowns and shops for the sale of agricultural products from farmers. Farmers can sell their produce to agents or traders under supervision of APMC

  • Bailhongal Fort: Rani Chenamma was captured and imprisoned by British Raj at Bailhongal Fort, where she died on 21 February 1829.
  • Memorial of Rani Chennamma: Rani Chennamma was buried at with full military honors. Her Samadhi is still preserved at Bailhongal.
  • Maddi Bhavi (well): The Mallaprabha River (Nayanagar) is the source of local drinking water, Maddi Bhavi is a secondary source of drinking water.
  • Ramallinga Temple, an architectural expression of Chalukya architecture.
  • The Jain temples in Devalapur
  • Mallammana Belavadi.
  • Jain Temple ruins in Wakkund
  • Shahi Masjid in Sampgaun
  • Shri Kshetra Sogal Waterfalls


Sogala Somanatheshwara Temple

Kalagudi Vakkund
                                                      
Mardi Basaveshwara Temple


Gombi Gudi



Ramalingeshwara Temple(Karigudi)






























 

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