Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district is a district in the
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n state of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
.
Gaurella is the headquarters of the district. It was carved out of
Bilaspur district and inaugurated in February 2020.
[About Gaurela-Penra-Marwahi District]
" Government of Chhattisgarh, 2020
Geography
Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district is bordered by
Koriya
Korea State, currently spelled as Koriya, was a princely state of the British Empire of India. After Indian independence in 1947, the ruler of Koreaccededto the Union of India on 1 January 1948, and Koriya was made part of Surguja District ...
and
Korba districts to the east,
Bilaspur and
Mungeli districts to the south, and
Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh to the northwest. The district is predominantly mountainous.
History
The district was formerly under the rule of the
Haihaiyas until Bhaskar Pant of the
Marathas
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a M ...
defeated them. The Marathas then administered the region until the British victory in the
Third Anglo-Maratha War
The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1819) was the final and decisive conflict between the English East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. The war left the Company in control of most of India. It began with an invasion of Maratha te ...
in 1818. The British then created Bilaspur district including the current territory of Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district. Chhattisgarh Mitra, the first newspaper of Chhattisgarh in this district, was published in the form of a monthly magazine from Pendra in the year 1900 under the editing o
Pandit Madhavrao Sapre
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 census, the district had a population of 3,36,420. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20,802 and 192,073 which is 6.18% and 57.09% of the population respectively.
According to the 2011 census, 74.59% of the district speaks
Chhattisgarhi
Chhattisgarhi ( / ) is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh & other states. It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is closely related ...
and 23.48% speaks
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
as their first language.
2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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See also
* Districts of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh, a state of India, has 33 administrative districts. At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts. Two new districts: Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on May 11, 2007 and nine new dis ...
References
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Districts of Chhattisgarh