Dharwad

Dharwad, formerly known as Dharwar, is a city in the northwestern part of the Indian state of Karnataka and the headquarters of Dharwad district. It forms a contiguous urban area with the city of Hubballi, and the two were merged in 1962 into the twin cities of Hubballi-Dharwad, which covers 213 square kilometres and lies 430 km northwest of Bangalore on NH-48 between Bangalore and Pune. The Chalukyas ruled the area in the twelfth century, an inscription at the Durgadevi temple in the Dharwad Fort area names a ruler called BhaskaraDeva in 1117, and the Bahmani Sultanate overran the district in the fourteenth century. Dharwad was selected for solar and green city master plans in 2016 and for the smart city programme in 2017, and it is known as a centre of Hindustani music, notably the Kirana and Jaipur-Atrauli gharanas. The climate is tropical wet and dry.