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Bikram Singh of Seraikela
Bikram Singh was the founder of Seraikela State on the Chota Nagpur plateau in present-day Jharkhand. A member of the Singh Deo ruling family of Porahat, he carved out his own principality on the Kharkai river around 1620. Seraikela later became known as the home of the masked Seraikela style of Chhau dance.
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