Dantewada district
district of Chhattisgarh, India
Dakshin Bastar Dantewada district, also known as Dantewara district, is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Dantewada is the district headquarters. The district is part of Bastar Division. Until 1998, Dantewada District was a tehsil of the larger Bastar District.
As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 18), after Narayanpur and Bijapur.
The present collector of Dantewada is Shri Deepak Soni.
History
Before Indian Independence, the district was part of the princely state of Bastar. After Independence in 1947, Bastar's ruler acceded to the government of India, and the erstwhile state became part of Bastar District of Madhya Pradesh state. Bastar District was divided into the districts of Bastar, Dantewada, and Kanker in 1998. In 2000, Dantewada was one of the 16 Madhya Pradesh districts that constituted the new state of Chhattisgarh.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dantewada district” is district of Chhattisgarh, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dantewada, district and Chhattisgarh, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q100211. VIAF identifies the subject as 138600330. The Library of Congress control number is n2008003432. Authority coordinates are 18.900, 81.350. 5 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2011, 1947 and 2000.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dantewada district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.