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Khandkya Ballal Shah

15th–16th century · 16th century

Khandkya Ballal Shah was a Gond king of Chanda in the Wainganga and Wardha valleys of central India. According to local tradition, he moved the royal capital from Ballarpur to Chanda, now Chandrapur, where a walled city was laid out under him and his successors. The Gond kings of Chanda ruled the region until the Bhonsle Marathas of Nagpur annexed it in the mid 18th century.

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