Kalahandi district is a district of western Odisha in India.
Nuapada district is an area of Odisha state in India. Nuapada town is the headquarters of the district. It has one subdivision:Nuapada,and five blocks:Khariar,Sinapali,Boden,Komna,and Nuapada. Nuapada District has three Notified Area Councils:Khariar,Khariar Road,and Nuapada,six tehsils and more villages such as Gandabahali,Tukla,Hatibandha,Duajher,Bargaon,Tarbod,Udyanbandh,and Larka.
Khonds are an indigenous Dravidian tribal community in India. Traditionally hunter-gatherers,they are divided into the hill-dwelling Khonds and plain-dwelling Khonds for census purposes,but the Khonds themselves identify by their specific clans. Khonds usually hold large tracts of fertile land,but still practice hunting,gathering,and slash-and-burn agriculture in the forests as a symbol of their connection to,and as an assertion of their ownership of the forests wherein they dwell. Khonds speak the Kui language and write it in the Odia script.
Bhawanipatna is a city and the headquarter of Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha,India. Bhawanipatna has numerous Hindu temples dedicated to different deities. It is named after the presiding deity,Bhabani-Sankar,and Patana,which means "place" in Odia.
Sambalpur is the fourth largest city in the Indian State of Odisha. It is located on the banks of river Mahanadi,with a population of 335,761. Prehistoric settlements have been recorded there. It is the home of the Sambalpuri sari.
Vedanta Resources Limited is a diversified mining company headquartered in London,United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas operations in three countries. Its main products are Zinc,Lead,Silver,Oil &Gas,Iron Ore,Steel,Aluminium and Power. It has also developed commercial power stations in India in Odisha and Punjab.
Prasanna Acharya is an Indian politician from Odisha,India. He is a former member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal.
Junagarh is a town and a notified area council in Kalahandi district in the Indian state of Odisha. MLA of Junagarh is Captain Dibya Sankar Mishra. It was the capital of the former state of Kalahandi. Junagarh is 26 km from Bhabanipatna,connecting National Highway 201.This highway recently has been termed as National Highway 26.
Rabi Ray was an Indian socialist politician,a Gandhian,a speaker of the Lok Sabha and a former Union minister. He hailed from Odisha. He joined the Socialist Party in 1948,and later became member of the Samyukta Socialist Party,the Janata Party and the Janata Dal.
Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency covers the whole Sambalpur district and parts of Deogarh and Angul districts.
The Kosal state movement is an effort by people of the Western Odisha region of India to secede from the state of Odisha. Organizations like Western Odisha Yuva Manch (WOYM),Kosal Youth Coordination Committee (KYCC),Kosal State Coordination Committee (KSCC),Koshal Sena,Koshal Mukti Bahini and Koshal Mukti Morcha are mainly leading this.
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo KCIE was an Indian politician and the last ruler of the princely state of Patna in Odisha before Indian independence in 1947. He was the President of the Ganatantra Parishad political party from 1950 to 1962 and the President of the Odisha state unit of the Swatantra Party after its merger with the Ganatantra Parishad in 1962. Deo was the Chief Minister of Orissa from 1967 to 1971.
Sriballav Panigrahi was an Indian politician,a leader of the Indian National Congress party in Odisha and was a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). He was elected to the Parliament of India from the Deogarh Lok Sabha constituency,three times,1984,1991 and 1996.
Ram Chandra Vikal was a freedom fighter. He was an agriculture minister and was elected twice as a Member of Parliament as well as a five-time Member of the Legislative Assembly. He had charge of Jammu and Kashmir during the governments of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was also a well known yoga teacher. Vikal was influenced by the ideology of the Arya Samaj from childhood and participated in the freedom movement from his student days. An agriculturist,Vikal championed the cause of the farmers,labourers and backward classes,and was instrumental in implementing various social welfare measures such as getting irrigation rates reduced and land revenue written off.
The Dangaria Kandha people are members of the Kondhs. They are located in the Niyamgiri hills in the state of Odisha in India. They sustain themselves from the resources of the Niyamgiri forests,practising horticulture and shifting cultivation. They have been at the centre of a dispute over mining rights in the area.
The Niyamgiri is a hill range situated in the districts of Kalahandi and Rayagada in the south-west of Odisha,India. These hills are home to Dongria Kondh indigenous people. The hills have one of India's most pristine forests in the interior. It is bound by Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary on the north-west side and Kotgarh Wildlife Sanctuary on the north-east end.
Kishen Pattnaik was an Indian social leader,socialist thinker,author and activist. As a member of parliament for the 3rd Lok Sabha,he represented the Praja Socialist Party for the Sambalpur Constituency of India. Pattnaik founded and edited a Hindi monthly periodical called Samayik Varta.
Nana Falgunrao Patole also known as Nanabhau,is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress Party and the President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.
Orissa Mining Corporation v. Ministry of Environment &Forest &Others is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of India,which declared that Gram Sabha has a role to play in safeguarding the customary and religious rights of the STs and other Traditional Forest Dwellers (TFDs) like Dangaria Kondha etc. under the Forest Rights Act. The Apex Court maintained that the decision lies with the locals.
Maharaja Pratap Keshari Deo was an Indian politician. He was the last ruler of Kalahandi State from 1939 to 1947. Post-independence,he was elected from the Kalahandi constituency in Odisha to the Lower House of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha. He was deputy Leader of the Opposition,Orissa Legislative Assembly,1952—1956.
