This major festival is also celebrated in the northeast region of India, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and parts of Chhattisgarh.

In 2000, the Chhattisgarh region was split to create a new state.

However, the core region can be considered to be the eastern part of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, the parts of Madhya Pradesh immediately to the north of it, and parts of the west of Chhattisgarh.

The tribal people of the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh eat whatever is available, including food which would not be eaten by people of other states and regions, such as red ant chutney.

Sirpur or Shreepur was then the capital of Dakshin Kosala ( Chhattisgarh region ) kingdom.

Rice is grown predominantly during kharif season as rain fed crop having 2. 39 lakh hectare area but the productivity of this crop is very low 08. 53 qt / ha in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

There is an overlapping neighboring region, called the North Central India Cultural Zone, including the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi, that is also defined by the Indian Government.

It is the same as Paniya Bhumi or Nagoloka, the present Nagpur, and it is further identified as Bhogapura, the modern Bastar, region of Chhattisgarh, Koraput, Kalahandi and Balangir district of Orissa.

After the independence of India, Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the former British Central Provinces and Berar and the princely states of Makrai and Chhattisgarh, with Nagpur as the capital of the state.

In May 2012 it was in power in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka.

Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Orissa, Western West Bengal and the present eastern Chhattisgarh.

Ajit Jogi ( born 29 April 1946 ) was the first chief minister of the state of Chhattisgarh, India .< ref name =" Amit ">

In the Vidhan Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh 2003 GGP had 41 candidates, but no-one was elected.

Prof. B. C. Mazumder ( ed ), in the Typical Selections from Oriya Literature, 1921, maintains that Seori-Narayana has been located in the Bilaspur district of present Chhattisgarh state, which was then in the kingdom of Dakshin Kosala, where in the 7 < sup > th </ sup > century CE a line of rulers of Hinduized Savara origin, established its rule with Sivpur, in the north of Raipur, for its capital.

Until the formation of the Central Provinces in 1861, Nagpur Province, which consisted of the Nagpur Division, Chhindwara and Chhattisgarh, was administered by a commissioner under the central government.

On the 3 March 1977 the Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh ( Chhattisgarh Mines Workers ' Union ) was founded by Shankar Guha Niyogi.

CMM was neutral on the issue of formation of a separate Chhattisgarh state.

In 2000, Bastar was one of the 16 Madhya Pradesh districts that formed the new state of Chhattisgarh.

In 1999 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Rajnandgaon constituency in Chhattisgarh.

He was later named as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) in the new state of Chhattisgarh, and led the party to a victory in the 2003 state Assembly elections.

Sudarshan was born in Raipur ( now in Chhattisgarh ) in a Sanketi Brahmin family.

Chhattisgarh Vikas Party was an extremely short-lived group of twelve MLAs who had defected from the Bhartiya Janata Party and announced the grouping's name with the suffix ' Party ' in order to circumvent the anti-defection law, and merged in to the Congress Party the next day.

Chhattisgarh Vikas Party was a vehicle to carry the defectors safely in to the party of choice without inviting the wrath of the anti-defection law.

It is rapidly growing as an industrial district of Chhattisgarh. One of the oldest Jute mill of India is situated here, Mohan jute mill ; it was the only Jute mill of the state CG and undivided MP.

In November 2003 he was accused of accepting a bribe from an Australian company in exchange for mining rights in Chhattisgarh.

In 2005, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Indian Supreme Court that the bribe exposé was planned by Amit Jogi, the son of the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Ajit Jogi, as a means to derive political mileage in favour of Ajit Jogi in upcoming elections.

Justice R. S. Garg was the first Acting CJ of the Chhattisgarh High Court ..

He was the leader of the opposition in the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha from 2003 to 2008 and belongs to the Congress party.

Chhattisgarh is historically known as the " Rice Bowl of India ", while Thanjavur is historically known as the " Granary of South India " and the Rice bowl of Tamil Nadu.

The United Nations has also recognised the work done in Chhattisgarh under his leadership and the fiscal management of the state is another aspect for which he is known.

The Indravati is sometimes known as the " lifeline " of the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, one of the greenest districts in India.

Chhattisgarh is a new state but with an ancient civilization, which can be felt by visiting the historical remains in the state.

Raipur city had been the capital of the Haihaya Kings, controlling the traditional forts of Chhattisgarh for a long time.

Apart from the states already mentioned, the state of Chhattisgarh is found in the northeast corner of the plateau.

After the Supreme Court expressed disapproval of the Salwa Judum movement in 2008 and asked the state of Chhattisgarh to implement remedial measures mentioned in the National Human Rights Commission report which had detailed widespread human rights abuses committed by the Salwa Judum, the movement slowly started to disappear from the Chhattisgarh state.

In India, the Naxalite Maoist insurgency controls several rural districts in the eastern and southern regions, especially in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.

The leading producer of Lac is Jharkhand, followed by the Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, and Maharashtra states of India.

** Chad Bauman, " Identifying the Satnam: Hindu Satnamis, Indian Christians and Dalit Religion in Colonial Chhattisgarh, India ( 1868 – 1947 ) ( Ph.

It borders the states of Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the southeast, Maharashtra to the south, Gujarat to the west, and Rajasthan to the northwest.

In November 2000, as part of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act, the southeastern portion of the state split off to form the new state of Chhattisgarh.

The state is bordered on the west by Gujarat, on the northwest by Rajasthan, on the northeast by Uttar Pradesh, on the east by Chhattisgarh, and on the south by Maharashtra.

In 1743 Raghoji Bhonsle of Berar established himself at Nagpur, and by 1751 had conquered the territories of Deogarh, Chanda, and Chhattisgarh.

BJP is currently in power in six states ( Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Goa ) where the party enjoys a majority of its own.

The second part is two letters, currently used in vehicle registration plates, except Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand whose vehicle codes are CG and UA / UK respectively instead of CT and UT.

The Green State of Chhattisgarh has 41. 33 % of its area under forests and is one of the richest bio-diversity areas in the country.

Main attractions of Chhattisgarh are Chitrakot Waterfalls, Kutumsar Caves, Ramgarh and Sita Bengra, Bhoramdeo temple, Sirpur, Rajim, Ratanpur and Malhar.

The BJS's strongest constituencies were in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.

It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and in parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.

Outside Orissa, there are also significant Oriya-speaking populations in other linguistic regions, such as the Midnapore district of West Bengal, the East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum Seraikela Kharsawan district, Simdega, Gumla, Khunti, Ranchi district of Jharkhand, the Srikakulam, Vizianagaram & Vishakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, eastern districts of Chhattisgarh state.

* Sambalpuri Oriya: Spoken in Bargarh, Bolangir, Boudh, Debagarh, Jharsuguda, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Sambalpur, Subarnapur and Sundargarh districts of Orissa and by some people in Raigarh, Mahasamund, Raipur districts of Chhattisgarh state.

* Bhatri: Spoken in South-western Orissa and eastern-south Chhattisgarh.