The hill and forest country from the Wardha and Wainganga across Gadchiroli and Chandrapur to Adilabad: Gond, Kolam and Andh clans under hereditary chiefs who hunt, burn and plant the hills, work iron and gather forest produce.
The Yadava crown claims the plain and taxes it through the Chanda and Nagpur officers; the Kakatiyas touch the south edge. Each clan decides for itself.
Who holds it
- Title
- Clan and village chiefs; no names known
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No Gond dynasty is documented for 1200; the Gond kingdoms of Chanda, Garha and Deogarh are later.
Overlord
Yadava claim
How things stand that morning
Self-governing clans under a Yadava claim. The Gond country runs on north and east of the sheet line into the Satpura and the Chhattisgarh forest (Betul, Chhindwara and Seoni are anchored here as peoples); that ground is nin's.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No source we read gives the political life of this people in 1200; this is general knowledge, flagged thin. The Project's rule is that powers who ruled without castles are real powers, so the people is carried.
Sources and studies
- General knowledge of the medieval Deccan (Bhandarkar, Altekar, Sastri, B. R. Gopal, Suryanath Kamath): from memory, not re-read
- OMNIA board notes for this place (a lead only, checked against the sources above)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.