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Handawada observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Chhattisgarh.
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.
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By population, Handawada ranks #5 of 81 villages in Orchha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Handawada is a village of 568 people in 117 households (Census 2011) in Orchha tehsil, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 5th-largest of 81 villages in Orchha tehsil. Literacy is 22%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 27% and the sex ratio is 753 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 494661, served by Narayanpur (Narayanpur) post office; the LGD village code is 450057. The sarpanch is Sonuram . The population is estimated at 670 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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.
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