Chhattisgarh Division

Chhattisgarh Division
Division of British India
← 1853–1947 →
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1909 map of the Central Provinces with the Chhattisgarh Division in the east.
Capital		Raipur
History
•	Creation of the division	1853
•	Independence of India	1947
Area
•	1901	55,011.3 km2(21,240 sq mi)
Population
•	1901	3,283,226
	Density	59.7 /km2  (154.6 /sq mi)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 116.

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Chhattisgarh Division was a former administrative division of the Central Provinces of British India. It was located in the east of the Central Provinces and encompassed the upper Mahanadi River basin, in the central part of present-day Chhattisgarh state of India.

With the advent of the British the town of Raipur, headquarters of Chhattisgarh Division, gained prominence over Ratanpur, the historical capital of the territory. The Central Provinces became the Central Provinces and Berar in 1936 until the Independence of India.

Chhattisgarh Division was occupied by the Bhonsle Marathas and incorporated into the Kingdom of Nagpur in the 18th century. The Kingdom of Nagpur was annexed to British India in 1853, becoming Nagpur Province. In 1861 Nagpur Province was merged with the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories to form the Central Provinces. All the princely states of the Central Provinces were in Chhattisgarh Division, except for Makrai, which was in the Hoshangabad District of the Nerbudda Division.

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