Jabalpur

History

Jabalpur is said to be the tapsya bhumi of the sage Jabali, from whom the name Jabalpur is derived. Asokan relics have been found. Later on it was the capital of the famous Tripuri kingdom (9th?10th centuries).

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Asoka - 9th - 10th centuries

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Inscriptions record the existence during the 11th and 12th centuries of a local line of princes of the Haihai people who are 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 Manikpur, 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 Maratha Peshwa granted the Narmada valley to the Bhonsle princes of Nagpur, who continued to hold the district until the British occupied it in 1818.

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11th - 12th centuries - Gondwana - 16th century - Gond - Mughal - Akbar - Maratha - Sagar - 1781 - 1798 - Peshwa - Bhonsle - Nagpur - 1818

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Under the British Raj, Jabalpur became the capital of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories, which was part of the British North-western Province. At that time it became infamous for the Thugee, but made more famous by the man who suppressed thugee - Col. Sleeman who was also appointed commissioner at Jabalpur. 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.

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Saugor and Nerbudda Territories - Thugee - Central Provinces - 1903 - Central Provinces and Berar

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An important landmark event was the holding of the Tripuri Congress session in 1939 that was presided by Subhash Chandra Bose.

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1939 - Subhash Chandra Bose

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

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1947 - Madhya Pradesh

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