Tigiria is a tehsil (block) of Cuttack district.

There are 14 (panchayats) with a total of 50 villages under the Tigiria administrative division.

[1] Tigiria is part of the Athagarh Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency alongside Athagad, Athagarh block and five gram panchayats (Kakhadi, Sankarpur, Badasamantarapur, Mangarajpur and Brahmapur) of the Tangi-Chowdwar block.

[2][3] During the British Raj era, Tigiria was the capital of Tigiria State, one of several princely states of the Eastern States Agency and the most densely populated.

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