Bastar district

Bastar District is a district of the of  in. is the district headquarters. The district has an area of 8755.79 km². Bastar District is bounded on the northwest by, on the north by , on the northeast by , on the east by and  districts of  state, on the south and southeast by , and on the east by  of  state.

The population of the district is 1,302,253 (2001 census). 70% of the district's population are tribal peoples (s).

Administratively, the district is divided into four s, Jagdalpur,, , and. The district has two municipalities, Jagdalpur and Kondgaon. Jagdalpur, the administrative headquarters, is a beautiful city having population of about 1.5 s (150,000).

Bastar and Dantewada districts were formerly part of the of. Earlier studies of the region were conducted by a colonial anthropologist, who went native. The state is described in, Subalterns and Sovereigns. After Indian independence in 1947, the princely states of Bastar and Kanker acceded to the, and were merged to form Bastar District of Madhya Pradesh state. The district, which had an area of 39,114 km², was one of the largest in India. In 1999, the district was divided into the present-day districts of Bastar, Dantewada, and Kanker, which constitute. In 2000, Bastar was one of the 16 Madhya Pradesh districts that formed the new state of Chhattisgarh.

The Chitrakoot and Teerathgarh waterfalls are situated close to Jagdalpur. Bastar is famouse for it's.

photographs of chitrakoot water falls
please note these images are copy left - i am not sure how to make it more obvious.