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6 unusual facts about Chota Nagpur Plateau


Chota Nagpur Plateau

The western portion of Hazaribagh plateau constitutes a broad watershed between the Damodar drainage on the south and the Lilajan and Mohana rivers on the north.

The western boundary of the plateau is formed by the deep bed of the Lilajan River.

The plateau is also swampy in some places and in other parts is covered with bamboo grasslands and shrubs such as Holarrhena and Dodonaea.

Indian famine of 1896–97

In Chota Nagpur, East India, awareness of the famine came late in 1896 when it was discovered that the rice crop in the highlands of Manbhum district had failed entirely on account of very little rain the previous summer.

Lazarus Barla

Lazarus ("Lajarus") Barla (born November 4, 1979 in Savnamara, near Sundargarh, Orissa) is a field hockey defender from India, who belongs to the Oraon tribe of Chota Nagpur.

Paul Goethals

Goethals actively encouraged evangelization and education in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Central India and was an effective help to Constant Lievens's work among the Mundas, Oraons and Kharias in the future state of Jharkhand.



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