Kondagaon

Kondagaon lies in the northern part of the Bastar country, among the wooded hills and plateaus of central India. Its name is also remembered as Kondanar, a Gondi expression explained locally as the village of horses. The surrounding region was part of the old kingdom of Bastar, whose ruling family traced its origins to Warangal and honoured Danteshwari as its guardian goddess. To the north, the Kesakal hills mark an approach between the Bastar plateau and the Chhattisgarh plain.