Bastar district (undivided) is the homeland of various ethnic groups with their
distinct cultures and also sharing each other's cultural trails. The present
treatise highlights about the religiosity of Bastar tribal groups who are having
their own territorial boundary but the role of mother cult-Mata Danteshwari,
-the tutelary deity of Bastar King, acts like a centripetal force where both
Hindu and tribal are roaming from apex to center and also act as a cohesive unit
through which even distant pargana and villages of Bastar are tied up through a
single thread. The essence of Bastar Dusehra festival (when chiefly Mata
Danteshwari is appeased) evolved as a way