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{{About|the district|its eponymous headquarters|Kheda}}
{{original research|date=April 2019}}

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{{Infobox settlement
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| settlement_type = [[List of districts of Gujarat|District]] of [[Gujarat]]
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| image_map = Kheda in Gujarat (India).svg
| map_caption = Location of district in Gujarat
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| seat = [[Nadiad]]
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'''Kheda District''' is one of the thirty-three districts of [[Gujarat]] state in western India. Its central city, [[Kheda]], is the administrative headquarters of the district.

==History==
[[File:Kaira district.jpg|thumb|Kaira district (1855)]]
Formerly known as '''Kaira district''', it was divided in two with the southern part becoming [[Anand District|Anand district]] in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Anand District |publisher=Gujarat Government |url=http://ananddp.gujarat.gov.in/anand/english/about-district/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210035014/http://ananddp.gujarat.gov.in/anand/english/about-district/history.htm |archive-date=10 February 2015 | url-status=live}}</ref> The Charotar region of Kaira consisted of four [[taluka]]s (sub-districts): [[Nadiad]], [[Anand Taluka|Anand]], [[Borsad Taluka|Borsad]], and [[Petlad]].<ref name="Heredia">{{Cite book|author=Heredia, Ruth |year=1997|title=The Amul India Story |location=New Delhi |publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=TYEkjpYkHrMC&pg=PA8 8] |isbn=978-0-07-463160-7}}</ref> When the district was divided, Nadiad Taluka went with Kheda district and the other three with Anand district.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gujarat Administrative Divisions 2011 |publisher=Office of The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |url=http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/administrative_maps/GUJARAT.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026055421/http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/maps/administrative_maps/GUJARAT.pdf |archive-date=26 October 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Today, Kheda has eleven talukas.<ref name="Talukas">https://kheda.nic.in/taluka/</ref> [[Balasinor]] and [[Virpur (Mahisagar)|Virpur]], once in Kheda district, were moved to the newly formed [[Mahisagar district]] in 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Seven new districts as Gujarat's I-Day gift |newspaper=[[Daily News and Analysis]] (DNA) |date=14 August 2013 |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/1874372/report-seven-new-districts-as-gujarat-s-i-day-gift |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819092511/http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/1874372/report-seven-new-districts-as-gujarat-s-i-day-gift |archive-date=19 August 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the [[Indian independence movement]] in the first half of the 20th century, the [[Patidar]]s of the Charotar region and other areas in Kaira resisted the British in a number of standoffs, notably the Kaira anti-tax campaign of 1913, the [[Kheda Satyagraha of 1918]], the Borsad Satyagraha of 1923,<ref>''Satyagraha'' means the nonviolent resistance popularised by [[Gandhi]]. {{Cite book|author=Gandhi, Mahatma K. |year=1951 |title=Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)|location=New York |publisher=Schocken |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=sMugAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT189 189–190]|oclc=606004619}}</ref> and the [[Bardoli Satyagraha]] of 1928.<ref>{{harvnb|Heredia|1997|page=10}}</ref>

==Demographics==
{{historical populations|11=1901|12=5,24,392|13=1911|14=5,14,019|15=1921|16=5,22,318|17=1931|18=5,68,276|19=1941|20=6,76,215|21=1951|22=8,16,050|23=1961|24=10,18,911|25=1971|26=12,77,630|27=1981|28=15,66,361|29=1991|30=17,98,282|31=2001|32=20,37,894|33=2011|34=22,99,885|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:<ref>[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A2_Data_Table.html Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901]</ref>|align=right}}{{bar box
|title=Religions in Kheda District
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{{bar percent|[[Hindus]]|orange|87.0}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims]]|green|11.5}}
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[[Jainism]]|red|0.5}}
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According to the [[2011 census of India|2011 census]] Kheda district has a [[Demographics of India|population]] of 2,299,885,<ref name=districtcensus>{{cite web | url = http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php | title = District Census 2011 | access-date = 2011-09-30 | year = 2011 | publisher = Census2011.co.in}}</ref> roughly equal to the nation of Latvia<ref name="cia">{{cite web | author = US Directorate of Intelligence | title = Country Comparison:Population | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | access-date = 2011-10-01 | quote = Latvia 2,204,708 July 2011 est.
}}</ref> or the US state of [[New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php |title=2010 Resident Population Data |publisher=U. S. Census Bureau |access-date=2011-09-30 |quote=New Mexico - 2,059,179 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019160532/http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref> This gives it a ranking of 197th in India (out of a total of [[Districts of India|640]]).<ref name=districtcensus/> The district has a population density of {{convert| 541 |PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}} .<ref name=districtcensus/> Its [[Family planning in India|population growth rate]] over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.81%.<ref name=districtcensus/> Kheda has a [[sex ratio]] of 937 [[Women in India|females]] for every 1000 males,<ref name=districtcensus/> and a [[Literacy in India|literacy rate]] of 84.31%.<ref name=districtcensus/>

At the time of the [[2011 Census of India]], 97.35% of the population in the district spoke [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] and 2.03% [[Hindi]] as their first language.<ref>[http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html 2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue]</ref>

==Administrative divisions==
Since 2013, Kheda district has been divided into eleven taluka.<ref name="Talukas" />
#[[Nadiad|Nadiad (city)]]
#[[Thasra Tulaka|Thasra]] (code 03878), city of [[Dakor]], villages include Kalsar,
#[[Kapadvanj]], villages include [[Abvel]], [[Antroli]], [[Ghadiya, Gujarat|Ghadiya]], [[Telnar]]
#Mehmedabad (Mahemdavad), headquartered in the town of [[Mahemdavad]], villages include [[Haldarvas]], [[Kanij]], [[Sarsavani]]
#Kathlal, villages include [[Anara, Kheda|Anara]], [[Bajakpura|Bajakapura]]
#Matar, headquartered in [[Matar, Kheda|Matar village]], villages include Asamali
#Mahudha, headquartered in the municipality of [[Mahisa]], [[Mahudha]], villages include Heranj
#Kheda, villages include [[Dedarda, Kheda|Dedarda]], [[Vavdi, Kheda|Vavdi]]
#Nadiad (rural), villages include [[Davda]]
#Galteshwar (271.28 sq.km.), villages include Anghadi, Kuni, Pali
#Vaso, headquartered in Vaso, villages include [[Palana, Kheda|Palana]], [[Rampur, Kheda district|Rampur (Rampura]])

===Notable people===
* [[Govardhanram Tripathi]] (1855–1907) Writer; born in [[Nadiad]].
* [[Manilal Nabhubhai]] (1858–1898) Writer and philosopher; born in [[Nadiad]].
* [[Ravji Patel]] (1939–1968) Modernist poet and novelist; born in Vallavpura village.
* [[Vallabhbhai Patel|Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel]] (1875 – 1950) Indian freedom fighter and first Home minister of India; born in Nadiad<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Joshi | first1 = S. | title = Life against Death: The Poetry of Ravji Patel | journal = Books Abroad | volume = 43 | issue = 4 | pages = 499–503 | doi = 10.2307/40123774 | year = 1969 | jstor = 40123774 }}</ref>
*[[Indulal Yagnik]] (1892-1972) an Indian independence activist, a leader of the All India Kisan Sabha and one who led the Mahagujarat Movemen

==See also==
* [[Abvel]]
* [[Bajakpura]]
* [[Nirmali]]
* [[Sarsavani]]
* [[Telnar]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Kheda district}}
* [https://kheda.nic.in/ Official site]
* [http://www.gloriousindia.com/places/gj/kheda.html ''Glorious India'' website.]

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Kheda district
|North = [[Gandhinagar district]]
|Northeast = [[Panchmahal district]]
|East =
|Southeast = [[Vadodara district]]
|South = [[Anand district]]
|Southwest =
|West = [[Ahmedabad district]]
|Northwest = [[Ahmedabad district]]
}}

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