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Rewa District is a district

Districts of Madhya Pradesh

Following is the list of districts in the Indian state Madhya Pradesh. It has 50 districts grouped into ten divisions.Bhopal Division* Bhopal District* Raisen District* Rajgarh District* Sehore District* Vidisha DistrictChambal Division...

of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

state

States and territories of India

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in central India

India

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. The city Rewa is the district headquarters. Rewa is also known as land of white tigers.

Geography

The Huzur, Sirmour and Mauganj tahsils lie between the Kaimur on the south and the Binjh pahar on the north and form what is known as Rewa plateau or uprihar. To the north lies the Teonther tahsils whish is quite different with regard to its physical and other features from the plateau tahsils. Rewa is basically a plateau and from the south to the north its height decreases. In the south the height of Kaimur Rang is more than 450 meters, whereas the height of alluvral plain of Teonthor is just 100 meters. In the district, dissected hills, ravines, plain, plateau, scarp, water-fall and alluvial plain can be seen. The rain-water of the district is flown out by the two assisting rivers of the Ganges, the Tons or Tamas

Tamsa River

The Tamsa River is a tributary of the Ganges flowing through the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.-Course:...

and the Son

Son River

Son River of central India is the largest of the Ganges' southern tributaries. A British 1850s diary shows that the river was written in English as Soane.-Course:...

. Bichiya River flows through the heart of Rewa city.

Significant waterfalls on the Tamsa or Tons

Tamsa River

The Tamsa River is a tributary of the Ganges flowing through the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.-Course:...

and its tributaries, as they come down from the Rewa Plateau

Rewa Plateau

The Rewa Plateau covers a portion of Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.The Rewa Plateau lies between the Kaimur Range in the south and Vindhya Range or Binj Pahar in the north. To the north of the Binj Pahar are the alluvial plains known as Uprihar. The plateau covers the Huzur,...

, are: Chachai Falls (127m) on the Bihad River, a tributary of the Tamsa, the Keoti Falls

Keoti Falls

Keoti Falls is in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the 24th highest waterfall in India.-The Falls:...

(98m) on the Mahana River, a tributary of the Tamsa, Odda Falls

Bahuti Falls

The Bahuti Falls is a waterfall in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.-The falls:Bahuti Falls is on the Odda River as it rushes down the edge of the Rewa Plateau to join the Bihad River, which is a tributary of Tamsa or Tons River. It is near Chachai Falls.It has a height of .The...

(145m) on the Odda River, a tributary of the Belah River, which is itself a tributary of the Tamsa, and Purwa Falls

Purwa Falls

The Purwa Falls is a waterfall in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.-The falls:The Tons River while descending through the Rewa Plateau and draining northwards makes a vertical falls of known as the Purwa Falls....

(70m) on the Tamsa or Tons.

Rewa lies between 24⁰ 18’ and 25⁰ 12’ north latitudes and 81⁰ 2’ and 82⁰ 18’.

The district is bounded on the north by Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

, on the east and southeast by Sidhi

Sidhi District

Sidhi district is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The town of Sidhi is the district headquarters. The district is part of Rewa Division.-History:...

, on the south by Shahdol

Shahdol District

Shahdol District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. With a total area of 5,671 square kilometers and a population of 908,148. Shahdol is an important district of Madhya Pradesh. The town of Shahdol is the district headquarters. The district is also a Division...

, and on the west by Satna

Satna District

Satna District , was formed in 1948, is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Satna is the district headquarters. The district has an area of 7,502 km², and a population of 1,868,648 , 20.63% of which was urban...

. It is part of Rewa Division

Rewa Division

Rewa Division is an administrative geographical unit of Madhya Pradesh state of India situated in the North East part of state bordering with Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Bundelkhand part of Madhya Pradesh. Rewa is the administrative headquarters of the division...

. It has an area of 6,240 km².

Divisions

Rewa district is divided in to 9 tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

s named mangava, Naigarhi, Sirmaur, Jawa, Teonthar, Hanumana, Hujur, Raipur Karchulian and Mauganj, where as Rewa city lies in Hujur Tehsil.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census

2011 census of India

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Rewa District has a population

Demographics of India

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of 2,363,744, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia

Latvia

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or the US state of New Mexico

New Mexico

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. This gives it a ranking of 191st in India (out of a total of 640

Districts of India

A district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. Districts are further subdivided, in some cases into Sub-Divisions, and otherwise directly into tehsils or talukas.District officials include:...

). The district has a population density of 374 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate

Family planning in India

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.79 %. Rewa has a sex ratio

Sex ratio

Sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms....

of 930 females

Women in India

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for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate

Literacy in India

Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate grew to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. Although this was a greater than sixfold improvement, the level is well below the world average literacy rate of 84%, and India currently has the...

of 73.42 %.

Languages

Languages spoken include Agariya

Agariya language

The Agariya language is spoken by the Agariya people, especially in Madhya Pradesh in India. It is a Munda language....

, an Austro-Asiatic tongue with approximately 72 000 speakers; Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity

Lexical similarity

In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words....

of 72-91% with Hindi

Hindi

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(compared to 60% for German and English) and is spoken by about 7 800 000 people in Bagelkhand

Bagelkhand

Bagelkhand or Baghelkhand, is a region in central India, in northeastern Madhya Pradesh state. It includes the Madhya Pradesh districts of Anuppur, Rewa, Satna, Shadol, Sidhi, and Umaria....

; and Bharia, a Dravidian

Dravidian languages

The Dravidian language family includes approximately 85 genetically related languages, spoken by about 217 million people. They are mainly spoken in southern India and parts of eastern and central India as well as in northeastern Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, and...

language spoken by at least 200 000 members of the Bharia

Bharia

Bharia is one of tribes of Madhya Pradesh in India.The Bharias live in Patalkot, which is completely isolated valley some 400 metres below Tamia in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh.This valley is the source of Dudhi River...

tribe and written in the Devanagari script.

Tourism

Deorkothar - It is known for its Buddhist stupas. The Deur Kothar stupa may have been established by the Maurya king Asoka in the 3rd century BCE. In the ancient times, the site was located on the Dakshinapatha
Dakshinapatha
Ancient Buddhist and Hindu texts use the term Dakshinapatha as a name for both the southern high road of the Indian subcontinent, and for the region lying south of Majjhimdesa or middle India. It is derived from the two Sanskrit roots dakshina for south, and patha for road.The first reference to...

(Southern Trade Route) running east-west from Patliputra
Patliputra
Pāṭaliputra , modern-day Patna, was a city in ancient India, originally built by Ajatashatru in 490 BC as a small fort near the River Ganges, and later the capital of the ancient Mahājanapadas kingdom of Magadha....

(Patna) to Pratishthana in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

through Central India. working non. govt. org. matri-prakriti in fevour of environment,tourism,wildlife and tiger project office cont- 9755085468

Fauna

The first white tiger to be captured was not, as is often claimed, the famed Mohan.
In December 1915, still a full thirty-six years prior to the capture of Mohan, Maharajah Gulab Singh of
Rewa caught a white cub. At the time of capture it was approximately two-years-old and lived in captivity
at the Maharajah's summer palace for another five years. The tiger was then stuffed and sent as a gift to
King George V as a sign of India's loyalty to the crown. To this day white tigers are still kept at the
Maharajah's summer palace which is located at Govindgarh.

In May 1951, Maharajah Shri Martand Singh was hunting in the jungles of Bandhavgarh. On 25 May a report
came that a tigress had been sighted with four cubs, one of which was white. The tigress was shot and this
was followed by two of her four cubs. More by luck than planning the white cub escaped. Rules of the time
allowed the shooting of a tigress with cubs and this was very common. The cub was captured and placed in
Maharajah's 150-roomed palace in a large open courtyard. On the 30th May, only three days after its capture,
the white cub escaped and a long hunt was organised to try and recover it. The white cub was reintroduced to a repaired courtyard where he was to live for the remainder of his life. This tiger was the famed Mohan.

Economy

Since this is a limestone belt and coal is found in the nearby districts of Shahdol, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli, various cement factories are nearby including in Naubasta, Bela (Satna district) and Bhagwar (Sidhi district) and the Jaypee Group has made a township known as Jaypee Nagar in Rewa.

Asia's biggest cement factory Prism cement (prev. Rasi Cement) produces near Rewa at Satna district. Various Birla Group Companies like Vindhya Tele Links, Birla Ericson Ltd are also there.

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj

Ministry of Panchayati Raj

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is a branch of the Government of India looking after the ongoing process of decentralization and local governance in the States....

named Rewa one of the country's 250 most backward districts

Poverty in India

Poverty is widespread in India, with the nation estimated to have a third of the world's poor. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate, 41.6% of the total Indian population falls below the international poverty line of 1.25 a day...

(out of a total of 640

Districts of India

). It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

Transport

Railways: Rewa is connected to Satna through 50 km Rewa Satna Rail Line. Satna falls on Mumbai Howrah main line via Allahabad.

Road: Rewa falls in India's longest Highway NH 7 Varanasi to Kanya Kumari Via Mirzapur, Katni, Jabalpur, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore. NH 27 To Allahabad, NH 75 From Ranchi To Gwaliar pass through Rewa.

Air: Nearest Airports is Khajuraho . Rewa has also got Air Strip at Churhat.

External links

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