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Bastar division is an administrative division of Chhattisgarh state in central India. It includes the districts of Bastar , Dantewada , Bijapur , Narayanpur , Sukma , Kondagaon and Kanker . Bastar Division was created in 1999, when the larger Bastar District was divided into the present-day districts of Jagdalpur, Dantewada, and Kanker.
Bastar is a district in the state of Chhattisgarh in Central India. Jagdalpur is the district headquarters. Bastar is bounded on the northwest by Narayanpur District, on the north by Kondagaon district, on the east by Nabarangpur and Koraput Districts of Odisha State, on the south and southwest by Dantewada and Sukma. The district possesses a ...
Bastar state was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was founded in the early 13th century by Annamaraja, a brother of the last ruler of the Kakatiya dynasty , Prataparudra II . It is today used to refer to the same region, called Bastar division in Chhattisgarh state.
After independence of India, its isolation continued, except when in 1958 the government refugees from East Bengal in the Dandakaranya area in the present Bastar division, and later the hills started getting exploited for its mineral wealth, like the Bailadila Hills excavated for its deposits of high-grade iron ore. [8]
Details. Chhattisgarh, a state of India, has 33 administrative districts.At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts.Two new districts: Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on 11 May 2007 [1] and nine new districts on 1 Jan 2012.
This gives it a ranking of 540th in India (out of a total of 640). [1] The district has a population density of 45 inhabitants per square kilometre (120/sq mi) . [1] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 15.56%. [1] Dantewada has a sex ratio of 1016 females for every 1000 males, [1] and a literacy rate of 42.27%. [1]
Mukesh Chandrakar, 28, who ran a YouTube channel called Bastar Junction in the central Chhattisgarh state, ... India itself is a dangerous place for journalists, ranking 159 in the World Press ...
Bastar is one of the 90 constituencies of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly in India. [ 2 ] It is part of Bastar district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes .