Chanda

Chanda was a Gond kingdom in central India's Wardha valley. Around 1320 Bhim Ballal Singh of the Atram clan founded its ruling house and made Sirpur his capital.

In the fourteenth century Khandkya Ballal Shah built Ballarpur fort and founded Chandrapur, where nine generations ruled. In the sixteenth century Babji Ballal Shah paid tribute to the Mughals. In 1749 Raghoji I Bhonsle forced a treaty taking two thirds of the revenue; when Nilkanth Shah rebelled in 1751, Raghoji imprisoned him in Ballarpur fort, ending Gond rule.