Place · Bhil borderland region · India
Banswara–Dungarpur
Also known as Banswara–Dungarpur — Bhil polity and community landscape
The southern Rajasthan–western Madhya Pradesh borderlands preserve long histories of Bhil communities interacting with, serving within and contesting neighbouring Rajput and colonial political formations; the layer is deliberately broader than rebellion alone.
- Date
- 1400–2026
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Condition
- living community landscape
- River basin
- Mahi
- Confidence
- Mixed / layered — established regional history; local narratives plural
- Location
- 23.550, 74.450
Connections (1)
- AnalogueDurgavati
Garha-Katanga and the Bhil borderlands are the two cases here of Adivasi communities inside the political system rather than outside it: a Gond kingdom with forts and a treasury that Akbar thought worth invading, and Bhil clans that supplied Rajput infantry and were written into Mewar's coronation rite. Neither fits a description of Adivasi history as a sequence of revolts.
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Sources
Regional gazetteers, tribal-history scholarship and Ministry of Tribal Affairs archival/repository materials.
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