Narsinghpur or Narsimhapur is a town in Madhya Pradesh state of central India. Narsinghpur is the administrative seat of Narsinghpur District.
Narsinghpur District
Area 5,133 sq. km., population 957,399 (2001 census), a 22% increase from 1991. Narsinghpur district is part of the Jabalpur division of Madhya Pradesh. It is bounded on the north by Sagar and Damoh districts, on the east by Jabalpur district, on the southeast by Seoni district, on the south by Chhindwara district, on the west by Hoshangabad district, and on the northwest by Raisen district. The administrative seat and chief town is Narsinghpur; other towns include Barman, Chaugan, Jharna, and Soteshwar. The main rail line from Bombay to Calcutta, which follows the Narmada valley, runs through the district from west to east.
Narsinghpur District sits in the basin of the Narmada River, which forms the northern boundary of the district. The Satpura Range forms the district's southern boundary.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Narsinghpur District in the domain of the Maratha Bhonsle Maharajas of Nagpur, but was ceded to the British Raj in 1818. Narsinghpur District was part of the Nerbudda (Narmada) Division of the Central Provinces and Berar, which became the state of Madhya Pradesh after India's independence in 1947.
