Central India’s state of Chhattisgarh contains the district of Bastar. The district headquarters are in Jagdalpur. Bastar is surrounded by the districts of Narayanpur on the northwest, Kondagaon on the north, Nabarangpur and Koraput on the east, and Dantewada and Sukma on the south and southwest. The area has a distinctive Odia and tribal culture.

Formerly, the districts of Dantewada and Bastar were a part of the princely state of Bastar. Early in the fourteenth century, Annama Deva, the brother of Pratapa Rudra Deva, the Kakatiya King of Warangal, Telangana, created Bastar. Following India’s 1947 declaration of independence,