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Teejan Bai was born in Ganiyari village, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north of Bhilai, to Chunuk Lal Pardhi and his wife Sukhwati.[1] She belongs to the Pardhi Scheduled Tribe of Chhattisgarh state
The eldest among her five siblings she heard her maternal grandfather, Brijlal Pradhi, recite the Mahabharata written by Chhattisgarhi writer, Sabal Sinh Chauhan in Chhattisgarhi Hindi and instantly took a liking to it. She soon memorised much of it, and later trained informally under Umed Singh Deshmukh.
1988 Padma Shri
1995 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
2003 Hon. D. Litt, Bilaspur University
2003 Padma Bhushan
2016 M S Subbalaxmi centenary award
2018 Fukuoka prize
2019 Padma Vibhushan