Vindhya Pradesh

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Vindhya Pradesh (Hindī: विन्द्य प्रदेश, Urdū: وِندے پردیش) is a former state of India. It was created in 1948, shortly after Indian independence, from the territories of the princely states in the eastern portion of the former Central India Agency. The eastern part of the state included the large princely state of Rewa, formerly part of Bagelkhand agency, and the western part of the state was made up of the numerous states of the former Bundelkhand agency of Central India. It was named for the Vindhya Range, which runs through the center of the province. The capital of the state was Rewa. It lay between Uttar Pradesh to the north and Madhya Pradesh to the south, and the enclave of Datia, which lay a short distance to the west, was surrounded by the state of Madhya Bharat.

Vindhya Pradesh, together with the states of Madhya Bharat and Bhopal, was merged into Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 1956.

In 2000, Srinivas Tiwari, speaker of the Madhya Pradesh assembly, advocated that nine districts be separated from Madhya Pradesh to create a new state of Vindhya Pradesh.