Dhariawad

Dhariawad is a census town in Pratapgarh district in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarters for Dhariawad Tehsil.

==Demographics== As of the 2001 Indian census, the town of Dhariawad had a population of 14,646, by the 2011 census it had grown to 11,368. In 2001 males constituted 51% of the population and females 49%, by 2011 that had changed to 50.6% males, and 49.4% females. Dhariawad had an average literacy rate of 68%, with male literacy at 76% and female literacy at 59% in 2001; however, by 2011 the average literacy rate had risen to 83.12%, with male literacy at 90.71% and female literacy at 75.48%. In Dhariawad in 2001, 15% of the population was under six years of age, but by 2011 this had dropped to 12.44%. The sex ratio for children in Dhariawd in 2011 was 0.875 females per 1 male, a likely indicator of female infanticide.