Balaghat

The area stretches over some 10,000-15,000 sq km — the size of Fiji or Cyprus — with inaccessible terrain encompassing the forest belt from Bastar to Adilabad, Khammam and East Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh and including Chandrapur and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra, Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh and Malkangiri in Orissa.

State of War Abhay N 2007

There are no choppers to even carry leaders and VIPs on official visits after the state's lone helicopter 'Maina' crashed in a hilly region of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat district last month.

Chhattisgarh For Chopper Surveillance In Maoist Den Abhay N 2007

The Naxalites pasted posters near the railway crossing and called a bandh in Gondia, Gadchiroli and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on December 15 in protest against the police access in the region.

Archive 2006-12-01 Abhay N 2006

The Naxalites pasted posters near the railway crossing and called a bandh in Gondia, Gadchiroli and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh on December 15 in protest against the police access in the region.

Naxalites strike again, this time in Maharashtra Abhay N 2006

In Baihar of Balaghat buying and selling are conducted on perhaps the most minute scale known, and if a Baiga has one or two pice [97] to lay out he will spend no inconsiderable time over it.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

They say that their ancestors migrated from Binjhakop to Lampa, which may be either Lamta in Balaghat or Laphagarh in Bilaspur.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Mandla District the Barhai caste counts only 300 persons, and about the same in Balaghat, in Drug only 47 persons, and in the fourteen

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Now that this method has been prohibited in Government forest, attempts have been made to train them to regular cultivation, but with indifferent success in Balaghat.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

But in Balaghat and Mandla the Binjhwar subtribe is still recognised as the most civilised subdivision of the Baigas.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The rule of exogamy is by no means strictly observed, and in Kawardha it is said that these three subcastes intermarry though they do not eat together, while in Balaghat the Bharotias and Narotias both eat together and intermarry.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell