Welcome to Jharkhand...Pages from the Past

The state of Jharkhand is located in eastern India and came into existence in the year 2000 by reorganizing the southern regions of Bihar state. Jharkhand has common borders with Bihar in the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the west, Orissa in the south, and West Bengal in the east. Jharkhand is mainly an industrial state which is home to the Bokaro steel city. Jharkhand has all the important minerals which are necessary for the production of steel. Jharkhand can be split into three major districts - Bokaro, Ranchi and Singhbum. The districts are pretty small but they have some of the most important industrial sectors in India.The cultural mosaic of Jharkhand was dreamt about, shaped and polished by generations of communities, which have inhabited this land since time immemorial.Art historians ascribe the 'oldest cave paintings' in India, the "scroll paintings" to a Jharkhand tribe known as the Shabars, who today live on the edge of extinction. It is an established fact that Stone Age tools discovered in Hazaribagh district and axes and spearheads found in the Chaibasa area, are remnants of a civilization dating back a few thousand years. 10,000 to 30,000 years old rock paintings, paintings in huge caves in the Sati hills and other indicators of ancient, even pre-historic, human settlements are found in profusion.


Capital: Ranchi


Major Cities: Ranchi , Deogarh, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Giridih.


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