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Basna is a town in Mahasamund district in the Chhattisgarh state of India.
Geography
Basna is located at Template:Coord.[1] It has an average elevation of 266 metres (872 feet).
Basna is Template:Convert from District Headquarter Mahasamund and Template:Convert from Raipur the capital city of Chhattisgarh. The Odisha border is very near around (Template:Convert) from Basna.
History
Narsinghnath is just Template:Convert away from Basna. It is the place where Ram and Sita spent their time during their 14 years of Template:Transl (living in a forest). The people also claim that during the Mahabharata period, the Pandavas had also stayed here. Narsinghnath pitha is an example of religious and cultural synthesis of tribal and non-tribal people (Pasayat, 1998, 2003, 2005 2007, 2008).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Demographics
Template:As of India census,[9] Basna had a population of 12368. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Basna has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 57% of the males and 43% of females literate. 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.
References
- ↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc – Basna
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (1998), Tribe, Caste and Folkculture, Jaipur/New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2003), Glimpses of Tribal and Folkculture, New Delhi: Anmol Pub. Pvt. Ltd.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2005), "Oral Narrative and Hindu Method of Assimilation: A Case of Marjarakesari in Narsinghnath", The Orissa Historical Research Journal, Vol.XLVIII, No.1, pp.12-25.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2007), Tribe, Caste and Society, New Delhi: Mohit Publications.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2007), History of Tribal Society and Culture, New Delhi: Zenith Books International.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2007), Tribal Non-tribal Divide: Myth and Reality, Bhubaneswar.
- ↑ Pasayat, C. (2008), Oral Tradition, Society and History, New Delhi: Mohit Publications.
- ↑ Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional). Census Commission of India.