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Khajaridhap observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
The principal temple recorded for Bagbahar mandal is siyadevi. No temple of this dedication is on record within Khajaridhap itself.
Bastar Dussehra runs about seventy-five days and is tied to Danteshwari rather than to the Ramayana — the longest observance of the festival anywhere.
The regional form observed across Bastar, Chhattisgarh. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Khajaridhap ranks #22 of 52 villages in Bagbahar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khajaridhap is a village of 1,375 people in 284 households (Census 2011) in Bagbahar tehsil, Jashpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 22nd-largest of 52 villages in Bagbahar tehsil. Literacy is 46%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 51% and the sex ratio is 1,034 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 496220, served by Ludeg post office; the LGD village code is 434320. The sarpanch is leelambar Sai Sidar, and the village votes in Sanjari Balod assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sangeeta Sinha. The population is estimated at 1,621 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Khajri Dhab →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
Centred on Bagbahar mandal
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