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Toynar 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.
Toynar is a village in Orchha mandal, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. It has a population of 260 across 61 households, with a literacy rate of 15.4%. The village is located at 19.408°N, 81.059°E and has PIN code 494661.
By population, Toynar ranks #21 of 81 villages in Orchha mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Toynar is a village of 260 people in 61 households (Census 2011) in Orchha tehsil, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh, the 21st-largest of 81 villages in Orchha tehsil. Literacy is 15%, 11 points below the tehsil average of 27% and the sex ratio is 1,131 women per 1,000 men. It lies 20 km from the Narayanpur district centre, 64 km from Dantewara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 494661, served by Narayanpur (Narayanpur) post office; the LGD village code is 450053. The nearest hospital or health centre is Vivekananda Health Centre, 39 km away. The sarpanch is Pakuram . The population is estimated at 307 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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