An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.60

v1.c9.s17.60

*4.17.6 C. region*. Megalithic burials of different types have been located on a large scale in peninsular India. As far back as 1823 Babington published an account of the Megalithic tombs in the Malabar region [4.17.10]. However it was only in 1879 that Rivett Carnac took notice of the Megalithic stone circles at JUNAPANI near Nagpur, then included in the C. Provinces but now in the n.-e. part of Maharashtra. The investigations were furthered by scholars like Glasfurd, Pearse, Carey, Hislop, Temple, Lyall, Blanford and others. The megaliths of c. India would include those located in the Dts of the present State of Madhya Pradesh and those now incorporated in the State of Maharashtra. In terms of Dts, c. India thus defined in this context would comprise Dts Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Chanda, Balaghat, Jabalpur, Sagar, Damoh, Mandla, Seoni, Hoshangabad, Narasingpur, Betul, Chhindwara, Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg, Amravati, Akola, Buldana and Yavatmal. This region has the Satpura and Vindhyan ranges and the major river is the Narmada. Here have been located hundreds of Megalithic stone circles, most of them in Dts Nagpur, Bhandara, Chanda, Wardha and Amravati, at present forming part of Maharashtra.