Rewa is a city in northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is the administrative center of the Rewa District and Rewa Division, and was formerly the capital of a princely state of central India. The town of Rewa is 131 mi. south of Allahabad. Madhya Pradesh (मध्‍य प्रदेश) is a state in central India. ... A princely state or native state was a feudal monarchy in British India ruled by a hereditary ruler, who was nominally sovereign. ... Map of India. ...

The Rajas of Rewa were Rajputs of the Bagheli branch of the Solanki clan, and were descended from the founder of the Anhilwara (Patan) dynasty in Gujarat. The state first came under British influence in 1812. From 1812 until India's independence in 1947, the Rewa was a princely state, in the Bagelkhand agency of Central India. It was the only large state in Bagelkhand, and the second largest in Central India, having an area of about 13,000 sq. mi. It was bounded on the north by the United Provinces on the east by Bengal and on the south by the Central Provinces. On the west it met other princely states of Bagelkhand. The political agent for Bagelkhand resided at Satna, on the East Indian railway: pop. (1901) 7471. During the minority of Raja Venkat Raman Singh (born in 1876, succeeded in 1880 and created G.C.S.I. in 1897), the administration of the state was reformed. A Rajput (from Sanskrit rāja-putra, son of a king) is a member of a prominent caste who live throughout northern and central India, primarily in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, although not all Rajputs find their origin in Rajasthan. ... The Solanki were a Hindu Rajput dynasty of India, who ruled much of the area that of the present-day state of Gujarat from the 10th to the 13th centuries. ... Patan is a city in Gujarat state of western India. ... Gujarat (ગુજરાત in Gujarati) is the most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra and is located in western India, bordered by Pakistan to the northwest and Rajasthan to the north. ... Bagelkhand (or Bagelkhand) is a region in central India, in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state. ... The Central India Agency was a political unit of British India, which covered the northern half of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. ... United Provinces, 1903 A province of the British Raj, which corresponds to modern Uttar Pradesh state of India. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... A British Raj province comprising British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India. ...

Rewa was divided into two well-defined portions. The northern and smaller division was the plateau lying between the Kaimur range of hills and that portion of the Vindhya Range known as Binjh, which overlook the valley of the Ganges. This plateau was for the most part cultivated and well peopled; rich harvests both of kharif and rabi crops were generally obtained. Water was plentiful, and the country is full of large tanks and reservoirs, which, however, were not used for irrigation purposes; the only system of wet cultivation which that had any favor with the villagers is that of bunds, or mounds of earth raised at the lower ends of sloping fields to retain the rain water for some time after the monsoon rains cease. The country to the south of the Kaimur hills comprised the largest portion of the state; but here cultivation was restricted to the valley between the hills and the Son River, and to a few isolated patches in scattered parts of the forest wastes. The principal river was the Son, which flows through the state in a northeasterly direction into Mirzapur district. Another important river was the Tons, but neither is navigable. The annual rainfall averages about 41 in. The population in 1901 was 1,327,385, showing a decrease of 12% in the decade. Many of the inhabitants of the hilly tracts were Gonds and Kols. Estimated revenue, 200,000. The staple crops were rice, millets and wheat; but more than one-third of the area was covered with forests, yielding timber and lac. The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates The Indian subcontinent into northern India and Southern India. ... Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ... The Ganga receives numerous tributaries from the Southern Uplands among which the Son is the largest and it joins ganga from the south along with Gandak, Gumti, Ghaghara, and sarda rivers. ... Mirzapur is a city in southeastern Uttar Pradesh, India renowned for its famous carpet industry. ... Gondi refers to a people and their language in Central India. ...

The south of the state was crossed by the branch of the Bengal-Nagpur railway from Bilaspur to Katni, which taps the Umaria coal-field. The state suffered from famine in 1896-97, and again to a less extent in 1899-1900; but on both occasions adequate measures of relief were provided. The population of the town in 1901 was 24,608, and it had a high school, also the Victoria and Zenana hospitals and a model jail. A database query syntax error has occurred. ... Nāgpur (meaning City of the Snakes) is a city located near the geographical center of India, in the state of Maharashtra. ... Bilaspur, a district of Himachal Pradesh, India is famous for the manmade Govind Sagar Lake on the Sutlej River, acts as the reservoir for the Bhakra and Nangal Dam project. ... Coal is a fossil fuel extracted from the ground either by underground mining, open-pit mining or strip mining. ...

After India's independence in 1947, the Raja of Rewa acceded to India, and Rewa became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, which was formed out of the former princely states of Bagelkhand and Bundelkhand agencies. Rewa served as the capital of the new state. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh was merged into Madhya Pradesh state. India is subdivided into 28 states, 6 union territories and a National Capital Territory. ... Vindhya Pradesh is a former state of India. ... Bagelkhand (or Bagelkhand) is a region in central India, in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state. ... Bundelkhand is the name of the geographical area of central India. ...

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Rewa District

Area 6,314 sq. km, population 1,972,333 (2001 census), a 27% increase from 1991. Rewa District is bounded on the north by Uttar Pradesh state, on the east and southeast by Sidhi district, on the south by Shahdol District, and on the west by Satna District. Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش) is the fifth largest and the most populous state in India. ...

Rewa Division

Rewa is one of the seven divisions of Madhya Pradesh state. It includes the districts of Anuppur, Rewa, Satna, Shahdol, Sidhi, and Umaria. Anuppur is a town in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state of central India. ...

Rewa Trivia

- The first officially recorded white tiger was found in Rewa in the early 20th century. For more information, check: http://www.lairweb.org.nz/tiger/rewa.html

- Bandhavgarh is a tiger sanctuary in the jungles surrounding Rewa. Together with Kanha Kisli, the forests are believed to be the setting for Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book".

- The Maharaja's Raj-era palace has now been converted into a museum.