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43 unusual facts about Madhya Pradesh


Agra–Bhopal section

The Agra–Bhopal section is a railway line connecting the 16-17th century capital of the Mughals, Agra and Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Ashish Kumar Dubey

Martyr Major Ashish Kumar Dubey was born on 8 July 1973 in the Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Ashta

Ashta, Madhya Pradesh, a municipality in Sehore district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India

Balaghat Engineering College, Rudha

:Not to be confused with Government Polytechnic College, Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh.

Bhopal School of Social Sciences

The Bhopal School of Social Science (popularly known, among the Bhopal crowd as BSSS) is located in the city of lakes, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

Central India Agency

In 1900 it included 9 states, 13 estates, and the pargana of Alampur belonging to Indore state

Chambal

Chambal area is at the confluence of 3 states Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan.

Christ Church Boys Senior Secondary School

Christ Church Boys' Senior Secondary School is a private school in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Dindori

Dindori, Madhya Pradesh, town and district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh, India

Durgvanshi

The exact origins with the roots being debated as being from modern day Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh.

Gardenia latifolia

It is found in the forests of Madhya Pradesh in India, and has been widely cultivated elsewhere, to the point of naturalization, especially in Nigeria, West Africa where the tree is highly valued for both its fruit and shade.

Gordon Pearce

Gordon Charles Pearce (born 10 January 1934 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India) is a field hockey player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics for Australia.

Government Degree College, Bijawar

Government College, Bijawar is one of the pioneer institution of higher education in rural and tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh.

Gwalior Campaign

The Marathan army had 14 battalion, 1 000 artillery men with 60 guns and 6 000 cavalry at Maharajpore.

ICFAI University, Tripura

The Government of Orissa passed The Icfai University Act and the State Governments of Assam, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab issued letters of intent to the institute for the establishment of universities.

Indian general election in Chhattisgarh, 2004

This is the first time, that an election took place in this state after it achieved statehood from Madhya Pradesh in 2000.

Kareli

Kareli, Madhya Pradesh, a town in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh, India

Madhya Pradesh High Court Jabalpur

On 1 November 1956 the States Reorganization act was enacted and Madhya Pradesh was constituted under S.9,Subsection(1) of Section 49 of States Reorganization Act.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court is located at Civil Lines, Jabalpur, MP.

Madhya Pradesh originally created as central province on 2 November 1861,as judicial commissions territory.

Thus Nagpur High Court was not abolished but by a legal fiction became High Court for the new State of Madhya Pradesh with its seat at Jabalpur.

On 1 November 2000,when the state of Chhattisgarh was carved out of state of Madhya Pradesh by the provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Reorganization Act,2000 and the High Court of Chhattisgarh was established for the state ,the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur became the High Court for the successor state of Madhya Pradesh .

The High Court exercising jurisdiction in the existing state of Madhya Pradesh i.e. Nagpur High Court, was deemed to be the high court for the state.

Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday University

Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramoday University (MGCGV) is a rural university at Chitrakoot, India.

Mandu

Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, a ruined city in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, India

MCKV Institute of Engineering

At Baja Saeindia 2007, India's first ever vehicle design and build competition held in December 2007, at the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP) facility in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, 27 teams were shortlisted out of 52 from all over India.

Mishrilal Gangwal

On November 1956 he became Minister of Finance in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Mishrilal Gangwal (Devanāgarī: मिश्रीलाल गंगवाल ) was an Indian politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh.

In the year 1959 he served as Minister for Finance, Separate Revenue, Economics & Statistics, and also served as Minister for Food & civil Supplies and had been Minister for several portfolios in later years in Madhya Pradesh government.

Mori Rajputs

Of late, they have remained as smaller royal states and jagirdars in central India in the present state of Madhya Pradesh; they are presently settled in Wadhwan Dhar, Ujjain, Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur and Raisen.

Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University

Chhattisgarh was carved out as a political entity on 1 November 2000 by the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Patharkar

Individuals withPatharkar surname are mostly found in the following states, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Karnataka India.

Phallus rubicundus

In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, where it is known locally asjhiri pihiri, it is used by two primitive forest tribes, the Bharia and the Baiga, as a treatment against typhoid, and also by the Baiga to treat labour pain.

Raman School Bhopal

Students of this school found place in the merit list of Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh.

Sanskaar Valley School

The Sanskaar Valley School is a boarding school/college located in Bhopal City in M.P

Shiv Kumar Patel

Shiv Kumar Patel (died July 22, 2007), also known as Dadua, was a notorious dacoit who operated in ravines and forests on the borders between the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, Indore

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar is one of the oldest schools in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

St. Paul Higher Secondary School, Indore

The diocese is spread over three civil districts of western Madhya Pradesh.

SVCE Indore

SVCE Indore or SVGI Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, Swami Vivekanand Group of Institutes was established in 2004 under the auspices of Swami Vivekanand Takniki Sansthan, Indore, to fulfill the demand of an ideal Technical, Pharmacy & Management institution.

Ujjain Engineering College

The college is an object of pride for technical education of Madhya Pradesh.

Also Mechanical Engineering Branch of this college is considered to be the one of the best in Madhya Pradesh.

Utricularia arenaria

There has also been a single collection from central India in Madhya Pradesh.

Wolves of Ashta

The wolves of Ashta were a pack of 6 man-eating Indian wolves which between the last quarter of 1985 to January 1986, killed 17 children in Ashta, Madhya Pradesh, a town in the Sehore district.


Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research

Acropolis Institute of Technology and Research (AITR) is a private college located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Ahirwada

Ahirwada is a historic town located between the Parvati and Betwa rivers in Central India or modern Madhya Pradesh.

Alha-Khand

The ballads from this work are still sung during the monsoons by the professional bardic singers (known as the Alhets) in various parts of northern India, mostly in Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and northern Madhya Pradesh.

Barli Development Institute for Rural Women

The Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in Indore is a Bahá'í inspired, though independent residential vocational education school providing programs for women in the vicinity of the city of Indore, India in the State of Madhya Pradesh as well as a base for outreach/non-residential training centers.

Bijeypur

Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, located between latitudes 25degree 30second - 25degree 53second N and longitudes 77degree 07second – 77degree 26second E, is situated in the Sheopur district of north-west Madhya Pradesh.

Daltonganj

It is connected to Bhopal and Jabalpur of Central India (Madhya Pradesh) by Jabalpur - Howrah Shaktipunj Express (Daily) and Bhopal - Howrah Bhopal Express (Weekly/Monday), Varanasi by the Intercity Express and Patna by the Palamau Express.

Flattened rice

The lightly fried variety is a standard breakfast in Malvaa region (surrounding Indore) of Madhya Pradesh.

Geography of Gujarat

Kathiarbar-Gir dry deciduous forests cover the eastern portion of the state, extending into adjacent portions of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, with a pocket on the peak of Girnar in the central Kathiawar.

Guna, India

Towns Shivpuri and Kota are located in north and the cities Vidisha, Bhopal, and Rajgarh lie to the South.the eastern boundary of district define by Sindh river.

Holkar Science College

The College was then affiliated to the University of Indore, which was established in 1964 by an act of legislative assembly of newly form Madhya Pradesh state of Independent India.

Inania

Inania is a surname/Shakha/gotra of the Dadheech Brahmins, Jat community or other communities of rajasthan, India, found in Districts Barmer, Nagaur, Jaipur in Rajasthan; Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh.

Indore - Bhopal Intercity Express

The Bhopal-Dahod Passenger trains is a daily service which runs between Bhopal Habibganj railway station of Bhopal, the capital city of Madhya Pradesh and Dahod town in Gujarat.

Jambavan

Jamthun (जामथुन) - Jamthun village in Ratlam tahsil in Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh, located in northwest of Ratlam city, has traces of ancient habitation.

Khap

These Khaps are found to be spread all the way from Northwest India down to Madhya Pradesh, Malwa, Rajasthan, Sindh, Multan, Punjab, Haryana, and modern Uttar Pradesh.

Legal opium production in India

Some place where opium is grown are Chittourgarh in Rajasthan; Mandsaur, Ratlam, Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh; and Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh.

Mallav Samaj

Mallav Samaj is a small community of India which migrated from a part of Rajasthan to Bundelkhand in Madhya Pradesh and are now settled in parts of Maharashtra like Aurangabad, Jalna, Pune and Solapur.

Mumbai–Manmad Pipeline

The experience in laying the Mumbai-Manmad-Bijwasan pipeline is being utilised by Bharat Petroleum to lay a crude-oil pipeline from Vadinar on the West coast to Bina in Madhya Pradesh, where a new 6 MMTPA grassroot refinery is coming up.

Nagarchal language

The Nagarchal people live in the Balaghat, Chhindwara, Mandla and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh, the Durg District of Chhattisgarh, the Bhandara District in Maharashtra, and Rajasthan.

Patalkot Express

The Patalkot Express or Chhindwara - New Delhi Express is a Mail/Express train which runs between Chhindwara Junction railway station in the city of Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh and New Delhi, the capital of India.

Pradyota dynasty

Pradyota dynasty is an ancient Indian dynasty, which ruled over Avanti in the present-day Madhya Pradesh state, though most of the Puranas (except a manuscript of the Brahmanda Purana, preserved in the University of Dhaka) say that this dynasty succeeded the Barhadratha dynasty in Magadha.

Pratap Bhanu Sharma

Sharma has been President of Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress between 1975–76, District Small Scale Industries Organisation and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Sarguja Express

The name Sarguja signifies the former name of Ambikapur District when it was a part and district of Madhya Pradesh.

The Sarguja Express (صارجوجا إكسبرس) is a daily express train of North Central Railway, in India, running between Gwalior City in Madhya Pradesh and Ambikapur town in Chhattisgarh.

Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela

Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela belongs to village Basari block Rajnagar, which was his former Estate under Madhya Pradesh.

Son River

The Son bridge built in deolond was inaugurated by Motilal Vora and Pandit Ram Kishore Shukla then Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Madhya Pradesh on 1986/02/13, the Koilwar Bridge, near Arrah, was amongst the earlier long bridges in the country.

Tatya Tope

After the battle of Gwalior Tatya undertook a campaign in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh and the Narmada River regions and in Khandesh and Rajasthan.

Trinity Times

Trinity Times, is a trimonthly private newsletter of the Trinity Campus, a private Engineering college located on the outskirts of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Udayagiri Caves

The Udayagiri Caves (23:32:11N 77:46:20E) are an early Hindu ritual site located near Vidisha in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Northern India.