KALAHANDI (formerly KAROND)  , a feudatory state of India, which was transferred from the Central Provinces to the Orissa division of Bengal in 1905 . A range of the Eastern Ghats runs from N.E. to S.W. through the state, with open undulating country to the north . Area 3745 sq. m.; pop . (Igor), 350,529; estimated revenue, £8000 ; tribute, £800 . The inhabitants mostly belong to the aboriginal race of Khonds . A murderous outbreak against Hindu settlers called for armed intervention in 1882 . The chief, Raghu Kishor Deo, was murdered by a servant in 1897, and during the minority of his son, Brij Mohan Deo, the state was placed in charge of a British political agent . The capital is Bhawani Patna .