Jabalpur (formerly Jubbulpore) is a tier 2 city situated on the banks of the holy Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh, India. According to the 2011 census, it is the third-largest urban agglomeration in Madhya Pradesh and the country’s 37th-largest urban agglomeration. Jabalpur is an important Administrative, Industrial, and Business centre of Madhya Pradesh. It is a major education hub in India. The Madhya Pradesh High Court and other important Administrative Headquarters of India.

Jabalpur is the administrative headquarters of Jabalpur district (the second-most-populous district in Madhya Pradesh) and the Jabalpur division. The city is known for the marble rocks on the river Narmada at Bhedaghat. Jabalpur is one of the most populated cities in the state, located at a major road and rail junction. The city is a military headquarters, containing the central gun-carriage factory, an ordnance factory, and an ammunition depot.

It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization— dominated the north-western part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 BCE. From that period on, India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism, the roots of which can largely be traced to the Indus civilization.