Chhuikhadan State, also known as Kondka, was a

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, which later formed part of

Chhattisgarh States Agency The Eastern States Agency was an agency or grouping of princely states in eastern India, during the latter years of the Indian Empire. It was created in 1933, by the unification of the former Chhattisgarh States Agency and the Orissa States Agen ...

. The state flag was a purple triangle with a coat of arms. Chhuikhadan covered an area of , of which were cultivated, and were cultivable. There were 120 villages in 1870 with a population of 13,281. By 1941, the population had increased to 32,731. The capital of the state was Chhuikhadan.

History

The Chiefs of Chhuikhadan were originally under the

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s of

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, the first Chief being Mahant Rup Das in 1750. However, after the defeat of

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, they were recognized by the British as feudatory chiefs in 1865 conferring the title and sanad to Mahant Laxman Das. Shrimant Mahant Rituparna Kishore Das, the last ruling chief of Chhuikhadan acceded to the Union of India on 1 February 1948. At India's independence on 1 January 1948, the state was merged into India. The former royal palace is still in very good condition.

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