History Sonbhadra

Uttar Pradesh is the second largest district in India. Sonbhadra is the only district in India, where Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh Jharkhand and Bihar have four states. In the popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati, a question was asked by 50 lakhs based on the fact. 6788 sq km in the district The area of ​​1,862,559 (2011 census) has a population of 270 persons per km². It is located in the extreme southeast of the state, and up to the north-west of Mirzapur district, Chandauli district in the north, Kaimur and Rohtas district of Bihar, northeastern state, Garhwa district of East Jharkhand, Korea and Serguja district in South, Chhattisgarh state in south , And Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh is in the west of the state district headquarters in Robertsganj city. Sonbhadra district is an industrial area and a lot of minerals like bauxite, limestone, coal, gold etc. are available here. Sonbhadra is called the capital of energy because there are many power plants here.

Religious and cultural approaches are the cultural symbol found here, based on the evidence of Ramayana and Mahabharata. Many rulers were kept prisoners here in the Mahabharata war by Jarasandha. The Valley of the Son River is prevalent in caves, which were the early residence of the original inhabitants. It is said that ‘Bhar’ formed settlements with Chero, Siri, Kol and Kharwar communities in the district, where the ‘Kol’ kings were ruled by the Vijaygarh Fort till the 5th year. The district was famous as the second Kashi during the 11th to 13th century. In the 9th century BC, was divided by the Nagas of the Brahmadatta dynasty.

In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the present region of the district was in Kaushal and Magadha. Before the arrival of the Gupta period, Kushan and Naga also kept the supremacy of the region. After Harshavardhana’s death in the late 7th century, he remained under control of Gurjars and Pratiharas until 1025, before he left by Mahmud of Ghazni. The region was under the administration of various governors of the Mughal emperors. Some forts like Agori Fort were under the control of Madan Shah.

In the control of the Narayan rulers of the district Banaras State, who built or captured several forts in the district. In the decade after 1775, the British took administrative control of most of the states of Banaras kings. Mirzapur and Sonbhadra are two separate districts in the business, there are a total of three tehsils (Robertsganj, Ghoraval, Duddhi) in Sonbhadra.

In the 1901 census, Robertsganj tehsil had a population of 221717, with two cities and 1222 villages. In 1989, Sonbhadra district was divided by Mirzapur district.

Salkhan Fossil Park

The Great Fossil Park, officially known as the Sonbhadra Fossil Park, is a fossil park in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 12 km from Robertsganj near Sarkhan village on the state highway SH5A in Sonbhadra district. The fossil in the park is estimated to be around 1400 million years old. Fossils found in Sonbhadra fossil park are fossils and stromatolites. The park is spread over an area of ​​about 25 hectares in the camera range, near the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary.

This state comes under the jurisdiction of the Forest Department. Bacteria have been made aware of the fossils found in the current park area since the 1930s. People doing research in the field include Mr. Auden (1933), Mr. Mathur (1958 and 1965), and Professor S Kumar (1980-81). On 23 August 2001. Subsequently, on August 8, 2002, District Magistrate Bhagwan Shankar was inaugurated as fossil park on 8 August 2002. An international workshop was held in December 2002, which attracted participation from 42 delegates from India and abroad. Canadian geologists HJ Hoffmans were influenced by fossils, and commented that they have not seen such beautiful and clear fossils anywhere else in the world.