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Jabalpur Tourism

Jabalpur is a city in Madhya Pradesh state of India . Jabalpur is the administrative seat of Jabalpur District and Jabalpur Division. The city is considered to be a sanskardhani. The numerous gorges in the neighboring rocks have been taken advantage of to surround the city with a series of lakes, which, shaded by fine trees and bordered by fantastic crags, add much beauty to the suburbs. The city itself dates from the nineteenth century, and is laid out in wide and regular streets. It has a beautiful collection of marble rocks called bhera-ghat surrounding the holy Narmada River . Many visitors every year come to visit Jabalpur because of this major attraction. Jabalpur is an important junction for the Indian Railways .

The city is also considered to be a base for higher education. It has some of the best known colleges of Madhya Pradesh . Every year around 300 highly qualified engineers and doctors finish their graduation from the renowned colleges here.

Jabalpur also has a big Defence and Military Center, the headquarters of West Central Railway Zone, the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board, and the Madhya Pradesh High Courts. It is also known for giving to the world, philosophers like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi of Transcendental Meditation fame and Bhagwaan Rajneesh ( Osho ).

Jabalpur District

Area 10,160 sq. km., population 2,167,469 (2001 census). Jabalpur district lies on the divide between the watersheds of Narmada and the Son , but mostly within the valley of the Narmada, which here runs through the famous gorge known as the Marble rocks, and falls 30 ft. over a rocky ledge (the Dhuan dhar , or misty shoot ). It consists of a long narrow plain running north-east and south-west, and shut in on all sides by highlands. This plain, which forms an offshoot from the great valley of the Narmada, is covered in its western and southern portions by a rich alluvial deposit of black cotton-soil. At Jabalpur city the soil is sandy, and water plentiful near the surface. The north and east belong to basin of the Son River , a tributary of the Ganges and Yamuna , the south and west to the Narmada basin. The district is traversed by the main railway from Bombay to Calcutta, and by branches of two other lines which meet at Katni junction.

Jabalpur Division

The Jabalpur division includes the districts of Balaghat, Chhindwara, Dindori, Jabalpur, Katni, Mandla, Narsinghpur , and Seoni.

The former British Jubbulpore Division of the Central Provinces comprised the districts of Damoh, Jubbulpore, Mandla, Saugor ( Sagar ), and Seoni.

History

The early history of Jabalpur is unknown; but inscriptions record the existence during the 11th and 12th centuries of a local line of princes of that Haihai race which is closely connected with the history of Gondwana . In the 16th century the Gond raja of Garha Mandla extended his power over fifty-two districts, including the present Jabalpur. During the minority of his grandson, Asaf Khan, the viceroy of Kara Maoikpur, conquered the Garha principality and held it at first as an independent chief. Eventually he submitted to the Mughal emperor Akbar . The Mughal Empire, however, enjoyed little more than a nominal supremacy; and the princes of Garha Mandla maintained a practical independence until their subjugation by the Maratha governors of Sagar in 1781. In 1798 the peshwa granted the Narmada valley to the Bhonsle princes of Nagpur , who continued to hold the district until the British occupied it in 1818.

Under the British Raj, Jabalpur became the capital of the Saugor and Nerbudda territories, which was part of the British North-western Province. The North-western Province later became part of the Central Provinces which, in 1903, became the Central Provinces and Berar . By the early 20th Century Jabalpur was the headquarters of a brigade in the 5th division of the Southern Army.

After India's independence in 1947, the Central Provinces and Berar became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh .

Places of Interests

Jabalpur is having mainly these places of tourist interest.

Madan Mahal Fort

Built by the Gond   ruler, Raja Madan Shah , in 1116 atop a rocky hill, the fort dominates the skyline and provides a panoramic view of the town and the country-side around it.

Sangram Sagar and Bajana Math

These medieval constructions were built by the famous Gond   king,Sangram Shah between 1480-1540.

Tilwaraghat
Bedaghat

The Small village of Jabalpur tehsil situated on the bank of river Narmada and widely famous for its marble Rocks is at a distance about 21 Km from Jabalpur by road. Soaring in glittering splendour, the Marble Rocks at Bhedaghat rise to a hundred feet on either side of the Narmada . The serene loveliness of the scene is one of cool quiet, the sunlight sparkling on the marble-white pinnacles and casting dappled shadows on the pellucid waters. Sunlight, now glancing from a pinnacle of snow-white marble reared against the deep blue of the sky as from a point of silver ; touching here and there with bright lights the prominences of the middle heights; and again losing itself in the soft bluish grays of their recesses... Here and there the white saccharine limestone is seamed by veins of dark green or black volcanic rock; a contrast which only enhances, like a setting of jet, the purity of the surrounding marble."

Dhuandhar

The Narmada, making its way through the Marble Rocks, Narrows down and then plunges in a waterfall Rocks,narrow down and then plinges in a waterfall known as Dhuandhar or the smoke cascade . So powerful is the plunge that its roar is heard from a far distance, The falls and the breaking of the volume of water at the crest present an awesome spectacle of Nature's power unleashed.

Chausat Yogini Temple

Situated atop a hill rock and approached by a long flight of steps,the Chausat Yogini   Temple commands a singularly beautiful view of the Narmada flowing through the jagged Marble Rocks.  Dedicated to Goddess Durga , this 10 th century temple has exquisitely carved stone figures of deities belonging to the Kalchuri period. According to a local legend,this ancient temple is connected to the Gond   Queen Durgavati's palace through an undergroung passage.

Tripur Sundari Temple

About 12 kms from city on bhedaghat road in village Tewar "Tripur Sundari Temple" is situated.

Rani Durgavati Memorial and Museum

Dedicated to the memory of the great Queen Durgavati is her memorial and a museaum which houses a fine collection of sculptures, inscriptions and prehistoric relics.

Vishnu Barmha Mandir

This is another very famous temple in Sihora Tehsil of this District.Some other interesting places are . Jain Temple(Pisanhari ki Madiya) ,Pariyat Tank, Bargi Dam, Lamheta Ghat, Devtal, Bhadbhada