In recent years, some industries have closed their operations due to a shortage of sufficient infrastructure to support growth there is a shortage of water due to excessive usage in previous decades. Rapid industrialisation took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but due to inadequate infrastructure, the pace has slowed since the late 1980s. Industry ĭewas was known for being a production centre of retail opium in the 1800s, as noted in the 1895 first report of the Royal Commission on Opium.
Īs of the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, the member of the Legislative Assembly for Dewas is Gayatri Raje Pawar. The Member of Parliament from Dewas is Mahendra Singh Solanki of BJP who was elected in the Lok Sabha Election 2019. The Scheduled Castes population was 56,366, while the Scheduled Tribes population was 9,861. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Dewas was 84.6%, of which male literacy rate was 91.1% and female literacy rate was 77.7%. The total number of literates in Dewas was 215,088, which constituted 74.3% of the population with male literacy of 79.9% and female literacy of 68.3%. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 35,437. See also: List of cities in Madhya PradeshĪs of the census, Dewas had a total population of 289,550, of which 150,081 were males and 139,469 were females. The city is located on the level plains of the Malwa plateau to the south, the land rises gently to the Vindhya Range, which is the source of the Chambal and Kali Sindh rivers that flow north through the district on their way to the Ganges. Geography ĭewas lies northeast of Indore, southeast of Ujjain, and southwest of Shajapur. Later, in 1956, Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh state. & Sr.) acceded to India, and their states were integrated into Madhya Bharat, which became a state of India in 1950. Īfter India's independence in 1947, the Maharajas of Dewas (Jr. Both Dewas states were in the Malwa Agency of the Central India Agency.ĭewas Junior & Dewas Senior Darbars (Courts) were composed of many Jagirdars, Sardars, Istamuradars and Mankaris. The senior branch had an area of 446 sq mi (1,160 km 2) and a population of in 62,312 in 1901, while the area of the junior branch was 440 sq mi (1,100 km 2) and had a population of 54,904 that same year. After 1841, each branch ruled its own portion as a separate state, though the lands belonging to each were intimately entangled in Dewas, the capital town, the two sides of the main street were under different administrations and had different arrangements water supply and lighting. The brothers divided the territory among themselves their descendants ruled as the senior and junior branches of the family. They had advanced into Malwa with the Maratha Peshwa, Baji Rao, in 1728. The original state was founded in the first half of the 18th century by the brothers Tukaji Rao (Senior) and Jivaji Rao (Junior), from the Puar clan of the Marathas. History ĭewas was formerly the capital of two princely states of British India. From this, the name Dewas ( dev- vas) seems to have been derived. The image of the goddess is cut into the wall of a cave, known as Devi Vashini or the goddess's residence. The district takes its name from the district headquarters town, Dewas, which is said to have been derived based on the tradition that Dewas lies at the base of a 300-foot (91 m) conical hill, known as Chamunda hill, on top of which the shrine of Goddess Chamunda is located. Swami Shivom Tirtha wrote the history of the hill ( Tekri ) of Dewas in his book, Sadhan Shikhar.
The word Dewas is believed to be a sandhi of the words Dev (deity) and Vas (abode in Marathi), so Dewas means house of the god. The hill has a temple of the deities Devi Tulja Bhawani, Chamunda Mata and Kalika Mata. The name Dewas is derived from the Devi Vaishini hill in the city, commonly known as Tekri.