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History of Damoh


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style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Bundela and Maratha rule

1649-1731: Bundelkhand Kesri Maharaja Chhatrasal.

1660: Sagar city founded.

1700: Kundalpur temple repaired with support from Chhatrasal.

1731: Some of region given to Marathas, as part heirs to Chharasal.

1735: Maratha governor at Sagar.

1757: Bahoranji, a dealer in precious stones, had a 13th cent Jain temple renovated at Damoh and a pratishta conducted to earn the title Singhai.

1780: The governors of Saugor, known as the Maratha Pandits, did annexed Gond kingdom.

1781: Jabalpur was selected as Maratha headquarters.

        :Jageshwar Mahadev Shivalinga found, temple built.

1798: The peshwa granted the Nerbudda valley to the Bhonsle princes of Nagpur.

Company rule and Ghadar

1818: During the Governor-Generalship of Lord Hastings the rule of Sagar passed into the hands of the British.

1854: as the Maratha kingdom lapsed to the British for lack of a recognized legitimate heir.

1857: The 42 NI and 3rd Irregular Cavalry stationed at Saugor rebelled on 1 July. 52 NI at Jabalpur rebelled on 28 September.

At Jabalpur the Gond Raja family, who were the last surviving descendants of the Garha-Mandla dynasty, prepared to revolt against the British. Their plans were discovered and both' the father, Shankar Shah, and his son, Raghunath Shah, were blown from guns.

Raja Kishore Singh Lodhi of Hindoria, Raja Devi Singh of Singrampur, Pancham Singh of Karijog, and others fought against the British rule in its rebellion in 1857.

Sir Hugh Rose assumed the command of the Central India Field Force on 17 December 1857. Finished in May 1858.

British Raj

In 1861, Damoh was constituted as part of
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