Bandhavgarh National Park is one of the famous National Parks of India, located in the Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh. Vindhya mountain range envelopes Bandhavgarh making it India's one of the most beautiful Tiger Reserve It is spread over on 105 square km of massive land and declared as National Park in 1968. According to the ancient history it was said that this place was gifted by Hindu Lord Ram to his brother Lakshman to keep watch on Lanka, so the National Park derived its name for here Bandhavgarh means Brother’s Fort.

Bandhavgarh is Popular as one of the highest density known in Bengal Tiger all over India, well-known over the world. It houses famous beautiful large size tigers. Park has large biodiversity, also has a large breeding population of Leopards and various species of Deers. Prior to National Park the forests around Bandhavgarh had long been maintained as a Shikargah, or game preserve, of the Maharajas and their guests. Maharaja Martand Singh of Rewa captured the first white tiger in this region in 1951. This white tiger, Mohan, is now stuffed and on display in the palace of the Maharajas of Rewa.

In 1947 Bandhavgarh came under the regulations of Madhya Pradesh, no special conservation measures were taken until 1968, when the areas were constituted as a national park. Since then, numerous steps have been taken to preserve Bandhavgarh National Park as an unspoilt natural habitat. Project Tiger was constituted in 1972 and then the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 came into force.