Bundelkhand

[ boon-dl-kuhnd, -khuhnd ]

noun

1. a former group of Indian states in central India, now part of Madhya Pradesh.

Bundelkhand

/ ˌbʌndəlˈkʌnd; -ˈxʌnd /

noun

1. a region of central India: formerly native states, now mainly part of Madhya Pradesh

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bundelkhand¹

First recorded in 1870–75; from Hindi: literally, “domain of the Bundela” (a clan in the Rajput)

Example Sentences

In 2018, a labourer from Bundelkhand found a diamond worth 15m rupees in a mine in Panna.

From BBC

Banpur, a village of about 13,000, lies in the mostly poor Bundelkhand region deep in India’s interior.

From Seattle Times

Ms Kuckreja, who set up Vanangana, a charity that has been working with battered women for a quarter of a century in in northern India's Bundelkhand - one of the poorest regions in the country - says a popular piece of advice given to new brides translates to "you are entering your marital home in a palanquin, you must only leave on your funeral bier".

From BBC

Born as a single-sheet newspaper 20 years ago in the economically deprived Bundelkhand region of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Khabar Lahariya - which translates to Waves of News - is now fully digital, with more than half a million subscribers on YouTube and 10 million average monthly views.

From BBC

"Bundelkhand is a place where women are not even allowed to talk to men so people, including our families, couldn't wrap their heads around the fact that we kept such irregular hours and sometimes worked during the night," Meera says.

From BBC