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The variety of places where Osho has spoken in India is simply incredible. This is a survey of all those places, including as well the few (five, underlined) that were outside India. There were some places among them where he was scheduled to speak but perhaps didn't. The places we know of as sure get a tick mark (), while questionable places get a question mark (), signifying rumoured, scheduled, maybe or likely, but not (yet) verified.

Note that a few cities (italicized) have changed their names since colonial times. See Footnote 1 for more on this.

Agios Nikolaos GR
Ahmedabad
Ahmednagar MH
Ajol GJ
Akola MH
Amalner MH
Amravati MH
Amreli GJ
Amritsar PB
Anand GJ
Anandshila MH
Aurangabad MH
Balasinor GJ
Baramati MH
Bengaluru KA
Bhavnagar GJ
Bhilai CG **
Bhopal MP
Bodh Gaya BR
Buldana MH
Burhanpur MP
Chandrapur MH

Charlotte NC
Chennai
Chhatarpur MP
Chhindwara MP
Chikhaldara MH
Chikhli MH
Damoh MP
Delhi
Digras MH
Dharangaon MH
Dhule MH
Dwarka GJ
Firozabad UP
Gadarwara MP
Ganj Basoda MP
Gondal GJ
Gondia MH
Gwalior MP
Hoshangabad MP
Hyderabad
Indore MP
Itarsi MP

Jabalpur
Jaipur MH **
Jaipur RJ
Jalandhar PB
Jalgaon MH
Jamnagar GJ
Jamshedpur JH
Junagadh GJ
Kanpur UP
Kapadvanj GJ
Kareli MP
Kathmandu NP
Katni MP
Khandwa MP
Kheragarh UP
Kolkata
Lakhnadon MP
Lonavala MH
Ludhiana PB
Mahableshwar MH
Manali HP

Mandla MP
Mangrol GJ
Matheran MH
Mithapur GJ
Montevideo UY
Mt Abu RJ
Mumbai
Nadiad GJ
Nagpur MH
Nandurbar MH
Nargol GJ
Narsinghpur MP
Nashik MH
Navsari GJ
Nepanagar MP
Pahalgam JK
Paratwada MH
Patan GJ
Patna BR
Pipariya MP
Porbandar GJ

Pune
Rajkot GJ
Raipur CG
Raj Nagar RJ
Rajneeeshpuram OR
Ranakpur RJ
Satna MP
Secunderabad TG
Seoni MP
Shrirampur MH
Somnath GJ
Srinagar JK
Surat GJ
Surendranagar GJ
Tulsishyam GJ
Udaipur RJ
Uruli Kanchan MH
Vadodara GJ
Varanasi UP
Vidisha MP
Wardha MH **

One can see relatively quickly that the vast majority of these places are in only three states, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, with 29, 25, and 24 places respectively. All the other Indian states combined come to only 24, with the rest of the world 5.

Most of these places were visited only in the 1960s. This was the first phase of gathering his people, and it took a while. After 1970 his travels to other places dropped considerably, and more and more consisted of "retreat"-like situations in meditation camps rather than crowds in cities. In the early 70s, he still did crowds when it suited his purposes, but they did not involve travel. It was all in Mumbai except for camps and a rare "Geeta Gyan Yagya" tour. His people had gathered, or were gathering, without need of further "outreach" in the form of travel.

Footnotes

1. During colonial times, the British occupiers were somewhat arbitrary in rendering the names of some Indian cities. It is said that they couldn't pronounce Indian names properly because of their stiff upper lip. At any rate, after India's independence in 1947, some cities began to change them "back", to represent their names as consistently as possible in this new alphabet, according to current transliteration customs, which are also evolving but that's another story.

Jabalpur was one of the first to do so, from Jubbulpore, so there has been no modern-era confusion about it. Bombay (Mumbai) and Poona (Pune) came rather later to the game, only in the mid-1990s, so many historical references to these towns are struggling with the change, as are more than a few old sannyasins.

In the table above, all changed names have been rendered according to newer versions except Delhi, which has not actually yet changed but is currently in a campaign to do so, to Dilli, a "proper" transliteration of दिल्ली, with "Dehli" another contender. Stay tuned. Other upgrades above include:

Vadodara (Baroda)
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Kolkata (Calcutta)
Chennai (Madras)
Varanasi (Benares, changed long enough ago to not be a disturbance)
Chandrapur (Chanda, more of a name change than a restoration)
Kanpur (Cawnpore, not likely to induce any puzzlement)