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Nagaspur (Odia: ନାଗାସପୁର) is a village in the district of Cuttack in Odisha, India. It is present on the bank of the Chitroptala river in the neighbourhood of village, Lemalo. It is famous for the performance of Jatra folk theatre culture.[1]

Nageshpur
Village
Nageshpur Location in Odisha, India
Coordinates: 20.418366°N 86.198945°E / 20.418366; 86.198945
Country	India
State	Orissa
District	Cuttack
Languages
• Official	Oriya
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	OR-
Nearest city	Salipur
Lok Sabha constituency	kendrapara
Vidhan Sabha constituency	mananga
Website	odisha.gov.in

In 2015, researchers from the Odisha Institute of Maritime and South-east Asian Studies learned that a number of predominantly Hindu villages in Odisha, including Nagaspur, were worshipping Buddhist icons under the belief that they were representations of Hindu gods such as Indra.[2]

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