Khairagarh State was a feudatory state of the former
Central Provinces of
British India. The chief, who was descended from the royal family of the old
Nagvanshis of Chotanagpur, received the title of
Raja as a hereditary distinction in 1898 or on 1 January 1896. The Khairagarh chiefs claimed descent from the prominent
Rajgond dynasty of
Garha-Mandla. The state included a fertile plain, yielding rice. Khairagarh was one of the states in
Chhattisgarh affected by a severe famine in 1897-1898. "The demands of famine created an enormous export in food grains which affected even the remotest parts of
Bastar and
Kalahandi. From the Khairagarh State alone 500,000
maunds of grain were exported." ==Rulers==