Place · hill fort & capital · India
Balamgadhi, Mendra
The hill fort and capital of a ruler remembered as King Balam, later the site of a hunting bungalow of Ramanuj Pratap Singh Deo, Maharaja of Korea.
- Periods
- Regional Flourishing, Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions, British Colonial Age
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.651, 82.439
Worth knowing
Two rivers rise on either side of this range: the Gopad from Chilli Dhodhi to the north, and to the south the Hasdeo, called the energy-giver of Chhattisgarh for the power stations along it.
Connections (2)
- PatronageKorea Palace, Baikunthpur
Balamgadhi carried the Maharaja of Korea's hunting bungalow on the hill that had been an earlier ruler's fort. The dynasty reused the old defensible heights as retreats once it had moved its seat down to Baikunthpur.
- Site adjacencyOm Tirtha Omkareshwar Dham, Kailashpur
The Hasdeo rises on the southern side of the Balamgadhi range and is already wide enough at Kailashpur, some distance downstream, to have cut the Om-shaped channel that the tirtha is named for.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026; coordinates supplied by the editor
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