chhattisgarh tour

Chhattisgarh, the 26th state of the Indian Union, is located in the heart of India. The newly formed Indian state of Chhattisgarh is endowed with a unique and rich cultural heritage and the region is full of lush green virgin forests, scenic hills and plateaus intersected by meandering rivers, ancient caves and temples and the last but not least for its rich tribal population. With so much of varieties and choices, Tours to Chhattisgarh promise to be a unique and fascinating experience for its visitors. With an area of approximately 1,35,133 km, Chhattisgarh is also one of the few landlocked states of India. Also the birthplace of several empires and kingdoms of India with the Mauryas being the most prominent, Chhattisgarh has a very rich historical and cultural heritage and its history, archaeology, art and culture and tribal life are worth discovering on your Tours to Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh offers an exciting range of attractions to its visitors. Be it amazing ancient Monuments, Palaces, exquisitely carved Temples, Buddhist Sites, ancient Caves, rock Paintings, rare and endangered Wildlife, lush green Jungles, exotic Waterfalls, enchanting hill Plateaus or unique Tribal Villages, Chhattisgarh has it all, promising an exciting and rewarding holiday experience for you. With about 44% of its area under forests, Chhattisgarh is one of the richest bio-diversity regions in the country and the state has a great potential for the development of eco-tourism in the region. With active involvements of tourism departments of the state, Chhattisgarh has been one of the fast emerging eco-tourism destinations of India. Visit and discover the enchantingly beautiful natural landscapes, tribal life of the famous Bastar region, amazing temples, and much more of the still virgin and unexplored Chhattisgarh, on your tours to Chhattisgarh with Tourism of Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh also offers exciting shopping experiences to its visitors. The craft items of Chhattisgarh like the traditional bell metal castings popularly know as Dokra has become famous all over the world. Though, still an emerging tourist destination of India, Chhattisgarh promises to offer you a travel destination with a difference.

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History of Chhattisgarh

The history of Chhattisgarh goes back to tens of thousands of years. The anthropologists have found evidences of some of the earliest human habitations in the rocks and caves of this ancient land. Though the mythological history of Chhattisgarh region stretches back to the period of Ramayana and Mahabharata, the earliest clue from the historical era is an Ashokan stone Inscription of 257 BC at Rupnath north of Jabalpur. According to legends the deep Sal forest regions are Dandakaranya itself, where Lord Rama spent much of his fourteen-year exile from Ayodhya. But regardless to all this, the unbroken history of Chhattisgarh or South Kosala can be traced back only from the 4th century AD. Between the 6th and 12th centuries AD the Sarabhpurias, Panduvanshi, Somvanshi, Kalchuri, and Nagvanshi rulers dominated this region. In the medieval period, the region came to be known as Gondwana and became the part of the kingdom of the Kalchuris who ruled the region till the end of the 18th century AD. The Muslim chroniclers of the 14th century AD have described well about the dynasties that ruled over the region. The region also came under the suzerainty of the Mughal Empire around the 16th century and later to the Marathas in 1745. By the year 1758, the whole region of Chhattisgarh was annexed by the Marathas who plundered its natural resources mercilessly. Also the word 'Chhattisgarh' was popularized during the Maratha period and was first used in an official document in 1795. With the British entry in the early 19th century, much of the territory was subsumed into the Central Provinces. From 1854 onwards the British administered the region as a deputy commissionership with its headquarters at Raipur. Chhattisgarh also took part in the 1857 Revolution when Vir Narayan Singh, a landlord of Sonakhan, grew up to challenge the injustices of British rule in the region. After a prolonged battle with the British forces, Vir Narain Singh was finally arrested and later hanged on the 10th December 1857. In the year 1904 British reorganized the region and transferred Sambalpur to Orissa and added the estates of Surguja to Chhattisgarh. The demand for a separate Chhattisgarh state was raised by the Raipur Congress unit at the meeting of the Raipur district Congress in 1924, for the first time. There emerged a general consensus on the view that the region of Chhattisgarh was culturally and historically distinct from the rest of Madhya Pradesh and should get recognition of its own but somehow it didn't materialized. After the independence of India, the demand for a separate state again resurfaced and in 1955 it was raised in the Nagpur assembly of the then state of Madhya Bharat. And finally the dream of a separate state of Chhattisgarh became reality when it was declared the 26th state of India on 1st November 2000.