The British conquered Kolhan in 1837 and consequently formed a new district Singhbhum with headquarters at Chaibasa.

The Rajas of Porhat/ Singhbhum, Seraikela and Kharswan ('Kharsuan' is original name）held sway over their kingdoms under British protection.

On 1 January 1948, a political leader Jaipal Singh asked tribal people to congregate at Kharsawan to protest against the merger with Odisha, so that then Bihar government would give them a bigger Jharkhand state.

Tribals gathered at Kharsawan village market with their traditional weapons on 1 January 1948.

On 18 May 1948, both Seraikela and Kharsawan were taken out of Odisha and were merged with Bihar due to a political conspiracy.

Jaipal Singh Munda didn't get the Jharkhand state as it was promised to him by then politicians of Bihar, till his death in 1970.

Subsequently, it was merged with Singhbhum district was divided into three subdivisions – Sadar, Dhalbhum and Seraikela.

[1][2][3] According to a PIB release in 2018, Seraikela Kharswan was not included in the list of the thirty districts most affected by Left wing extremism in the country.

[4] Jharkhand Police has mentioned "Nimdih, Chandil, Chowka, Ichagarh, Tiruldih, Kharsawan and Kuchai" police station areas of Seraikela Kharsawan district as Naxalite affected.

[5] Hemant Soren, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, has claimed, in September 2021, that as a result of the effective action against left wing extremism, the "presence of hardcore Maoists has been limited to mainly four regions, namely Parasnath Pahar, Budha Pahar, Tri-junction of Seraikela-Khunti-Chaibasa district in Kolhan division and some of the areas along the Bihar border".

[15] According to the 2011 Census of India, Kharsawan CD block had a total population of 88,642, all of which were rural.

Languages of Kharsawan CD block (2011)[18] According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Kharsawan subdistrict, Odia was the mother-tongue of 29,166 persons forming 32.90% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Ho (26, 493/ 29.69%), Santali (13,746/ 15.51%), Bengali (10,456/ 11.80%), Hindi (3,575/ 4.03%), Urdu (2,233/ 2.52), Mundari (2,218/ 2.50%), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (755/ 0.85%).

Comparatively smaller language groups with 200+ persons as their mother-tongue are mentioned in the text.

[20] In Seraikela Kharsawan district, Scheduled Tribes numbered 255,626 and formed 24.00% of the total population.

The fund, created by the Government of India, is “designed to redress regional imbalances in development”.

There are stations at Adityapur, Gamharia, Birbans, Sini, Mahali Marup and Rajkharsawan.