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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 03 April 2013  Page Views: 6645

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Chokahatu
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 116.845 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ranchi
Latitude: 23.170000N  Longitude: 85.930000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Chokahatu submitted by Andy B : The sepulchral slabs Image copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)
Subhashis Das writes: Chokahatu means 'the land of mourning' in the austric Mundaric language, which was one of the most abundantly spoken languages in tribal India and currently the native tongue of hundreds and thousands of tribal people in the east and the central of India.

The site is situated about 80 kms south-east of the capital city of Ranchi and is primarily a megalithic burial ground of the Mundas. Such burial grounds are known as sasandiri, harsali, haragarhi etc in the local Mundaric languages and can be found in almost all the tribal villages in and around Ranchi.

Chokahatu has only two menhirs and the rest are all burial slabs and dolmens. The dolmens are also known as sasandiri to the Oraons, Hos, Mundas and the Asurs.The site was discovered by one T.F.Pepe way back in the late 19th century (Mr.Pepe like Mr. Babington has the rarest disticntion of discovering numerous megaliths in India in the 19th century). Pepe reported the site to Col.Dalton who visited here in 1871.

Dalton was bewildered at the enormity of the site. He wrote in the "Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal" Vol.42 in 1872 that his helpers counted the sepulchral slabs to be around 8000 and the area was more than a whopping 7 acres. He believed that there must be an understratum of these graves and this site must be about two thousand years old. The villagers however disagreed with me , they affirmed the site is of about 14 acres and must be more than two thousand year of age.

Well that's for the archaeologists to decide, if they ever arrive here...

Read information and photos at
http://www.megalithindia.in/p/enormous-megalithic-site-of-chokahatu.html

Note: A petition to declare the Chokahatu Megalithic site as a World Heritage Site
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Chokahatu submitted by Andy B : The author Subhashis Das alongside a sasandiri dolmen with a large capstone. Image copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Petition to declare the Chokahatu Megalithic site as a World Heritage Site by Andy B on Sunday, 09 June 2013
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Subhashis Das writes: Yesterday I held a meeting with Sajal Chakravarti, the Secretary of Jharkhand Tourism.

He agreed to : 1. declare the Chokahatu megalithic site as a tourist destination.
2. to think on declaring Chaibasa as a Heritage town for her megaliths.

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Petition to declare the Chokahatu Megalithic site as a World Heritage Site by Andy B on Wednesday, 03 April 2013
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Subhashis Das writes:

India has Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Buddhist sites as World Heritage sites but sadly there are no archaeological/heritage sites of the tribals that has yet been ordained with this coveted award.

Prehistoric megaliths lie scattered all over the country that testifies the hard fact that the tribal megaliths are indeed the real archaeological and historical relic of prehistoric India.

Not a single megalithic site has received a heritage status nor have they been declared tourist spots in India as Stonehenge, Avebury or Newgrange . Understandably because these are of non Aryan tribal origin.

Chokahatu is an enormous megalithic site spread to a whopping area of of over 7 acres of land. and has over 7600 sepuchral slabs.

The megalithic site is still being used by the Munda tribals as they still raise dolmens since over 2500 years.

Please sign the petition at
http://www.change.org/petitions/archaeological-survey-of-india-and-unesco-declare-the-chokahatu-megalithic-site-as-a-world-heritage-site
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