| Rewa district रीवा जिला |
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Location of Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh |
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| State | Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Administrative division | Rewa |
| Headquarters | Rewa, India |
| Area | 6,240 km2 (2,410 sq mi) |
| Population | 1,554,987 (2001) |
| Population density | 312 /km2 (810 /sq mi) |
| Literacy | 62.33 per cent |
| Sex ratio | 939 |
| Lok Sabha Constituencies | Rewa |
| Major highways | NH 7, NH 27, NH 75 |
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Rewa District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city Rewa is the district headquarters. Rewa is also known as land of white tigers.
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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 and the Son.[1] Bichiya River flows through the heart of Rewa city.
Significant waterfalls on the Tamsa or Tons and its tributaries, as they come down from the Rewa Plateau, are: Chachai Falls (127m) on the Bihad River, a tributary of the Tamsa, the Keoti Falls (98m) on the Mahana River, a tributary of the Tamsa, Odda Falls (145m) on the Odda River, a tributary of the Belah River, which is itself a tributary of the Tamsa, and Purwa Falls (70m) on the Tamsa or Tons.[2]
Rewa lies between 240 18’ and 250 12’ north latitudes and 810 2’ and 820 18’.[1]
The district is bounded on the north by Uttar Pradesh, on the east and southeast by Sidhi, on the south by Shahdol, and on the west by Satna. It is part of Rewa Division. It has an area of 6,240 km2.[3]
Rewa district is divided in to 9 tehsils named mangava, Naigarhi, Sirmaur, Jawa, Teonthar, Hanumana, Hujur, Raipur Karchulian and Mauganj, where as Rewa city lies in Hujur Tehsil.
According to the 2011 census Rewa District has a population of 2,363,744,[4] roughly equal to the nation of Latvia[5] or the US state of New Mexico.[6] This gives it a ranking of 191st in India (out of a total of 640).[4] The district has a population density of 374 inhabitants per square kilometre (970 /sq mi) .[4] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.79 %.[4] Rewa has a sex ratio of 930 females for every 1000 males,[4] and a literacy rate of 73.42 %.[4]
Languages spoken include Agariya, an Austro-Asiatic tongue with approximately 72 000 speakers;[7] Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi[8] (compared to 60% for German and English)[9] and is spoken by about 7 800 000 people in Bagelkhand;[8] and Bharia, a Dravidian language spoken by at least 200 000 members of the Bharia tribe and written in the Devanagari script.[10]
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.
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 named Rewa one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[11] It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[11]
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.
| Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh | Allahabad district, Uttar Pradesh | Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh | ||
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| Rewa district | ||||
| Sidhi district | Singrauli district |
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