Rewa District

Rewa District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Rewa is the district headquarters. Rewa is also known as land of white tigers.

Rewa District has an area 6,314 km² and a population of 1,972,333 (2001 census), a 27% increase from 1991. The 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 Umaria District (which came to existence during Madhya Pradesh and Chattishgarh division), and on the west by Satna District. It is part of Rewa Division.

Places of historical and tourist importance

*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 (Southern Trade Route) running east-west from Patliputra (Patna) to Pratishthana in Maharashtra through Central India. Being situated centrally amongst the famous Buddhist places like Sanchi, Sagar, Kaushambi and Sarnath, Deur Kothar used to be visited by Bhuddhist monks frequently.
*Govindgarh - GovidGarh is situated in Rewa distirict. There is Asia's biggest pond(Taalab) in Govind Garh.
* Keoti Fall
* Chachai Fall

Rewa district is devided in 8 Tehsil named (Gurh,Sirmaur,Baikunthpur,Teonthar,Govindgarh,Hujur,Raipur Karchulian and MauGanj) where as Rewa city lies in Hujur Tehsil.Bichiya River flows from the heart of the city.

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 25th of May a reportcame that a tigress had been sighted with four cubs, one of which was white.The tigress was shot and thiswas 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.

ee also

*Bandhavgarh
*Sirmaur
*Awadesh Pratap University,Rewa

External links

* [http://rewa.nic.in Rewa District web site]