Raisen District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The town of Raisen is the district headquarters. The district is part of Bhopal Division. Sehore district lies in west, Vidisha district in the north, Sagar district in the east and south-east, Narsimhapur district in the south-east, Hoshangabad and Sehore districts in the south. Raisen district has seven tehsils Raisen, Goharganj, Begamganj, Gairatganj, Silwani, Bareli and Udaipura.

The most visited place in Raisen is the Shrine of Hazrat Peer Fatehullah Shah Baba who was a well known muslim saint. People have a strong belief that ones desires are fulfilled if asked to God via Hazrat Peer Fatehullah Shah Baba.Visitors are also attracted to the sprawling Raisen fort which shows a great example of national and religious integrity with its temples and maszid and mazars situated in same campus and worshiped by both religion peoples. It has a very good water management and conservation system along with a large water reservoir and some 40 wells. In the vicinity of the fort there are also several caves with ancient wall paintings.

Raisen History

 Raisen with a strong fort was an important centre of administration from the period of its foundation from Hindu times. In the fifteenth    this fort was ruled by the Sultans of Mandu, from whom it passed to the Rajputs. In 1543 Shershah Suri captured from Puranmal. In Akbar's time Raisen was the headquarter of a Sarkar in the Subah of Ujjain in Malwa. Fiaz Mohammad Khan, the third Nawab of Bhopal State occupied it in about 1760, later got himself recognized as Faujder of Raisen by Emperor Alamgir II. During the Mugal period Khamkhera was the headquarter of the area noe falls in Gairatganj Tehsil. It receives its present name during the same Mugal rule. Shahpur was the headquarter of the Pargana. Later on it was shifted to Sagoni, which falls in Begamganj Tehsil. After Bhopal State became a part C State of the Union of India, the present district came into existence on 5th May, 1950, with headquarter at Raisen. It was decided to retain only seven Tehsils in the district.
 
Raisen Tourism

Raisen District has many tourism places like Sanchi World heritage, 46km from Bhopal and 8 km from Vidisha, Bhojpur The Bjojpur temple houses the largest Shiva lingam in India, which is 5.5 m tall and 2.3 m in circumference and is crafted out a single rock.

Tourist places in Raisen
Sanchi
STUPAS
The Four Gate Ways
The Ashoka Pillar
The Buddhist Vihara
The Great Bowl
The Gupta Temple
Bhojpur
Bhimbethika