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Chitrakot Waterfall on the Indravati River, near Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India.
During the period of British rule, Raipur served as the headquarters for the Chhattisgarh states, which functioned as a subagency of 14 feudatory princely kingdoms under the Eastern States Agency. Additionally, the city's administrative importance was further formalized when it was constituted as a municipality in 1867.12