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KHAIRI TELOTA
Khairi Telota, is a email village in Bhandara tahsil lying 24 miles south of Bhandara and having a population of 337 according to the 1971 Census. It is known for an old cromlech consisting of two upright slabs of stone with a third laid over them. Other cromleches of the same kind are found in the neighbouring district of Chanda. These are attributed to the Kurumvar Shepherds. The one here is locally known as Giant's telota or frying-pan, the horizontal stone having the appearance of a girdle supported over an oven. They are in fact the burial places of people in the megalithic age. On account of this, the village has acquired its second name telota which together would mean Khairi of the frying-pan.
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