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Karnataka

Karnataka

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A state in southern India known for temples, varied culture, and technology companies
  • proper noun
: Karnataka
  • The Karnataka case points to other sources of aberrations: relative bargaining strength and skills of the Panchayats at different levels.
  • Karnataka, India
  • Bangalore, Karnataka
  • Karnataka case

I'm from India, the South part of India, Karnataka.

Examples

  • The red earth of Karnataka and the golden sands of Arabian beaches.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Drawing largely upon the fieldwork carried out by researchers at the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, as well as from our own survey in selected villages of Uttar Pradesh (UP), some useful insights are obtained.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Both the UP and Karnataka case studies point to serious aberrations regarding local governance.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Today, the site in the Indian state of Karnataka is crawling with pilgrims, tourists, and neo-hippies.

    Academic text (2009)

  • One 40-year-old male informant from Karnataka, speaking about the Kannada Association, put it this way:

    Academic text (2005)

  • EV71 appears to have spread from Kerala to the neighboring Karnataka, resulting in its frequent detection in 2009.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In only five of 25 states and union territories, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh, did the Congress receive less than 30 percent of the vote; the BJP received more than 30 percent of the vote in only five states.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Gowda, the chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, had little experience in national affairs.

  • My whole family is from Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, a South Indian state that's nowhere near the famous river.

  • Laden with coconut and tamarind, it's typical of the coastal cuisine of the city of Mangalore in Karnataka.

Surface Forms

Karnataka main

Etymology

Karnataka comes from the local language Kannada and the old word nadu meaning 'land', and some people also link it to a word for 'black' or 'high', so it can be seen as the 'land of Kannada' or the 'high/black land'. So Karnataka is simply the name for that region and state in southern India.