Bhilwara

Bhilwara is a city and municipal corporation in the Mewar region of Rajasthan, India, and the administrative headquarters of Bhilwara district. It is widely called the textile city of India because of its large cloth-making industry. One account derives the name from a coin called the Bhiladi that was once minted here; another links it to the Bheel tribe, whose people are said to have helped Maharana Pratap against the Mughal emperor Akbar, so that the area became Bheel Bada, the Bheel area. The oldest part of the town was set up in the middle of the 11th century around the Bada Mandir, a Krishna and Radha temple that still stands. Stone Age tools have been found in the district, and the city stands at an average elevation of 421 metres. At the 2011 census the municipal corporation counted 359,483 people.