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PLACES
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PURADA
Purada, with a population of 1842 persons in 1971 is a village in Gondia tahsil about 49 miles distant from Tirora. The village has a primary school, and Monday is the weekly bazar day. Purada was the chief place of the Purada zamindari now abolished. About this zamindari the following details are available:
"This estate is situated in the south-east corner of the Tirora tahsil, adjoining Sakoli and the Khairagarh State. The total area is 38 square miles, the greater part of which is forest, and it contains only 7 villages. The estate was granted in the beginning of the nineteenth century by Chimaji Bhonsla, on his victorious return from Orissa, to Karu Gond who had accompanied him [Bhandara District Gazetter, l908 ed. p. 222.]".
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