Satna District was formed in 1948, is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Satna is the district headquarters. Satna district has Uttar Pradesh on the north, Rewa on the east, Shahdol on the southwest, Umaria and Katni districts on the south, and Panna on the west. The district is part of Rewa Division. The district is divided into the tehsils of Amarpatan, Maihar, Nagod and Raghuraj Nagar. Satna town is situated in Raghuraj Nagar tehsil. Among the languages spoken in Satna is Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi and is spoken people in Bagelkhand.

Satna History

In 1803, after the treaty of Bassein, the British made overtures of alliance to the ruler of Rewa, but the latter rejected them. In 1812, during the time of Raja Jaisingh, a body of Pindaris raided Mirzapur from Rewa territory. Upon this Jaisingh was called upon to accede to a treaty, in which he acknowledged the protection of the British Government, and agreed to refer all disputes with neighboring chiefs to their arbitration and to allow British troops to march through or be cantoned in his territories. At the mutiny of 1857, Maharaja Raghuraj Singh helped the British in quelling the uprisings in the neighbouring Mandla and Jabalpur district, and in Nagod which is now a part of Satna district. For this, the king was rewarded by restoration to him of the Sohagpur and Amarkantak parganas, which had been seized by the Marathas in the beginning of the century. The rulers of Rewa State bore the title of 'His Highness' and "Maharaja" and received a salute of 17 guns. Most of the Raghuraj Nagar and entire Amarpatan tehsil of the present Satna district were in the Rewa State prior to the formation of Vindhya Pradesh.

Satna Tourism

Satna district is proud to have two major religous tourist places of Chitrakoot & Maihar. Satna District is also proud to have an ancient city of Buddhist culture named 'Bharhut', whose archeological remains have been gifted to the major museums in the country and the world. Tulsi museum at Ram Van has many unique artistic sculptures of ancient times found in this area. Lord Shiva Temple at Birsinghpur is also a famous and old temple in the region.

Tourist places in Satna
Chitrakoot Dham
Ma Sharda Mata, Maihar
Tulsi Sangralya, Ramvan
Shiv Temple, Birsinghpur