Baudh

Baudh was a principality on the middle Mahanadi in western Orissa, with its capital at Baudh. In 1337 Ananga Dev Bhanj ruled the state, a subordinate of Orissa; his line was connected to the Bhanja rajas of Keonjhar.

A tradition held that a childless chief adopted a nephew of the Keonjhar raja, who took the name Ananga Deva and founded Baudh's ruling line in the fourteenth century. The Garhjat chiefs later paid tribute to the Marathas in the eighteenth century and came under British protection after 1803.