Kalahandi district

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Kalahandi district (Odia: Kɔɭāhāṇḍi) is a district in southwestern Odisha, India. Its headquarters is at Bhawanipatna. The district had a population of 1,576,869 at the 2011 census. Archaeological evidence indicates human settlement in the region from the Stone and Iron Ages, and Asurgarh was an urban settlement about 2,000 years ago. The Naga dynasty began ruling Kalahandi in 1006. After Nagpur State lapsed to the British Crown in 1853, Kalahandi became a princely state under British rule; it joined India on 1 January 1948. In 1993, the Nuapada subdivision was separated to form Nuapada district. Kalahandi has a primarily agricultural economy, and more than one third of the district is covered by forest. It also has deposits of bauxite, graphite and gemstones, while an alumina refinery operates at Lanjigarh. The district experienced repeated droughts during the 19th and 20th centuries and became nationally associated in the 1980s with poverty, malnutrition and starvation, an image sometimes...

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