Lanji tehsil is a fourth-order administrative and revenue division, a subdivision of third-order administrative and revenue division of

Balaghat district Balaghat district () is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in Central India. Its belongs to Jabalpur Division. Balaghat city is Administrative Headquarter of Balaghat District. Balaghat is known for its tile factories, rice mills and forests. ...

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. It includes the

Lanji Lanji is a statutory town in the Lanji tehsil of Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh, India. It is administered by a nagar panchayat, and is part of the Lanji (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Lanji assembly constituency and the Lanji community develo ...

village.

Geography

Lanji tehsil has an area of 764.68 sq kilometers. It is bounded by

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in the south, southwest and west, Kirnapur tehsil in the northwest,

Baihar tehsil Baihar tehsil is a fourth-order administrative and revenue division, a subdivision of third-order administrative and revenue division of Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh. Geography Baihar tehsil has an area of 910.50 sq kilometers. It is bou ...

in the north and

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in the northeast, east and southeast.

Culture

The population of Lanji mostly speak

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

but includes many other, including the

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

& Chhattisgarhi. Lanji is a village with a rich

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

and

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. Through Lanji History it has hosted many people coming from East (

), South (

) and North ( North Madhya Pradesh). All those civilisations have affected the social structure of Lanji

Economy

Agriculture

There is sufficient rainfall in the Lanji region for purely

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. The main agricultural crop is rice. floating rice. Seed is sown at the beginning of the rainy season (June–July).

Education

Schools

*Government Model Higher Secondary School Lanji *

Saket Public School Lanji Saket Public School, Lanji is a Higher Secondary School situated in Lanji, Madhya Pradesh. It was established in July 2002, with the campus of the school situated in Ward No 12 Bhilai Road Lanji. Background School was established in 2002 through ...

*Central India Academy Lanji *Pali Academic Institution, Bisoni, Lanji

Citations

External links

Tehsils of Madhya Pradesh Balaghat district {{MadhyaPradesh-geo-stub