Jabalpur, Capital of the Gonds

Jabalpur

Madhya Pradesh

India

Hindi and English

October To March

+91-761

Famous for Bedaghat Marble rocks.

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Jabalpur is located just north of the Narmada River, in a rocky basin surrounded by low hills and dotted with lakes and is around 336 kms from Bhopal, the capital of the state.

Jabalpur fast coming up as the IT city of the state of Madhya Pradesh is an ancient city which was known as Tripuri and has a mention in the Mahabharata also. Tripuri was ruled by the Hyahya rulers. Jabalpur since then has always been the capital of various rulers. It was passed under the rule of Gupta and Maurya in the later years till the Kalchuri kings made it their seat of power. It stayed with them till the Gonds annexed it and made it into their capital as Gondwana. The Mughals time and again tried to capture the city. Queen Durgavati, one of the Gond queens is famous for sacrificing her life while fighting the Mughals. Gondwana changed hands with many rulers and was eventually passed on to the British from the Marathas.
Today Jabalpur is one of the developing cities of Madhya Pradesh and is coming up as an important commercial centre of the state. It still retains the colonial settings of the pre independence era in its architecture which creates a good amalgam with the rest of the architecture.