Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated every year on 26th July. Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated in honour of the Indian soldiers who fought in the Kargil War in 1999. But do you know what is the population of Muslims at the place where the Indian Army drove away the Pakistani soldiers? Today we will tell you about the population of Kargil city.
Kargil City
Ladakh is now a union territory. There are two districts in Ladakh. The first is Leh and the second district is Kargil. The whole world also knows Kargil because of the 1999 Kargil war. In the Kargil war of 1999, the Indian Army drove away the Pakistan Army and the Kabalis from the hills of Kargil. Kargil is also called the land of heroes. But do you know what is the population of Kargil and how many percent of Muslims and how many percent of Hindus live there. Today we will tell you people of which religions live in Kargil.
Kargil population
Kargil is a hilly area of Ladakh. Now the question is what is the population of Kargil district. Let us tell you that according to the 2011 census, the population of Kargil is 1,40,802. Kargil is a Muslim-dominated area, that is, the number of Muslims is the highest here. According to the 2011 census, the population of Muslims in Kargil is 76.87 percent. The population of Hindus in Kargil is 7.34 percent. Apart from this, 14.29 percent people of Buddhist religion, 0.43 percent people of Christian religion live here. People of Sikh religion are 0.83, Jains are 0.02 percent.
When did Islam arrive?
Now the question is when did Islam come to Kargil. According to information, Islam came to Kargil in the 15th century. Mir Shams-ud-Din Iraqi, a scholar of the Shia school of Central Asia, visited Baltistan and Kargil with his missionaries to preach Islam. It is believed that the chief of Baltistan first embraced Islam and then the chiefs of Kargil accepted Islam. Before Mir Shams-ud-Din, Iraqi Khwaja Noorbakhsh visited Kargil and gave many Islamic sermons. Thus Buddhism was limited to places like Sapi, Phokar, Mulback, Wakha Bodh-Kharbu areas and Darchik Garkon and Zanskar in Kargil.
Let us tell you that in the year 1979, Kargil became a separate district in the Ladakh region. It was separated from the erstwhile Leh district. Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil was implemented in the district in July 2003.
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