Original: Biography Childhood and adolescence ( 1931 -- 1950 ) Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain ( ) in Kuchwada , a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India , as the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant .
Simplified: His birth place was Chandra Mohan Jain in Kuchwda , a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India .