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Chhattisgarh
Chitrakot Waterfall on the Indravati River, near Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Chhattisgarh has a diverse population with various ethnic and social backgrounds. More than one-third of the state's residents belong to the Scheduled Castes—groups formerly referred to as untouchables within the Indian caste system—or to the Scheduled Tribes, which are indigenous minority peoples not included in the caste hierarchy. Among the Scheduled Tribes, the Gond people are the most prominent.1