Kuchinda

Kuchinda lies in the wooded uplands of western Odisha, between the Veden and Kharla rivers. It formed part of the old state of Bamanda, or Bamra, whose territory extended across the hills east of Sambalpur. Accounts of the state’s beginnings place an early royal seat at Tikilipada near Kuchinda before the capital moved to Deogarh. Bamanda was one of the region’s garhs, the fortified seats and domains that gave western Odisha its distinctive political geography.