Gondia is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra, serving the administrative headquarters of the administrative district of the same name. Gondia is also known as Rice City due to the abundance of rice mills in the area. Gondia airport is the only airport in the region. neighborhood.
The region is named after the Gondi people, an Adivasi group from central India. During British rule, Ponwar Rajpoot was the owner of Gondia.During British rule in India, the Great Famine of 1876-1878 provided the opportunity for the construction of a 150-kilometre (93 mi) gauge link called the Nagpur Chhattisgarh Railway, connecting Nagpur with Rajnandgaon. Gondia railway station was built when this line became operational in December 1888. Bengal Nagpur Railway (BNR) was established in 1887 to improve and expand this line, and in 1902 BNR was contracted to construct a Gondia railway line. to Jabalpur with branches from Nainpur. to Mandla and Nainpur to Seoni and Chhindwara. With these links and the trade they brought, Gondia grew and prospered. In the year 1877, near the Darekasa cave, Swami Vivekananda wrote the landmark work "First Trance", "Swami Vivekananda's Journey to Raipur and His First Trance".
