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{{Short description|Town in Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2015}}
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| other_name = Budnavar
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| postal_code = 454660
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'''Badnawar (or Badnavar)''' is a Town, former pargana and a [[Nagar Panchayat|Nagar Parishad]] of the [[Dhar district]] in the state of [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]. This is a [[tehsil]] place having 170 villages. Badnawar is around 95 km from [[Indore]] - the business capital of Madhya Pradesh.

in AD 783.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X0JUwf2BXVAC&dq=vardhamanapura+badnawar&pg=PA143 Literary and Historical Studies in Indology, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, pp. 139-144]</ref> It remained a major [[Jain]] center until mid 13th century.

== Schools ==
* Unnati public HS school
* Kashyap Vidhya Peeth
* K C Saraf Vidhyalaya
* Nandaram Chopra Higher Secondary School
* Unnati Academy
* Jagrati Vidhya Mandir
* Suraj Vidhya Vihar
* Shri Sardar Patel Vidhyapeeth
* Pratap Vidhya Niketan
* Shri Aaiji Public School
* Jain Public School

== Geography ==
Badnawar is located at {{Coord|23.02|N|75.22|E|}}.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/35/Badnawar.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Badnawar]</ref> It has an average elevation of 506 metres (1,660 feet).

== History ==

Acharya [[Jinasena]] started the composition of [[Harivamsa Purana]] here in AD 783.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=X0JUwf2BXVAC&dq=vardhamanapura+badnawar&pg=PA143 Literary and Historical Studies in Indology, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, pp. 139-144]</ref><ref>[Malwa Through The Ages,
Kailash Chand Jain, Motilal Banarsidass, Publ., 1972 p. 486]</ref> [[Jayavarman I (Paramara dynasty)|Jayavarmadeva]], A Paramara ruler, had issued a grant mentioning Vardhamanapur, which was found at Ujjain. Some of the ancient Jain images found here are now displayed in the Digambar Jain Museum Ujjain. Approximately twenty inscribed images have been found here that date from Samvat 1122 to 1308.<ref>Kasturchand Jain Suman, Bharatiya Digambar Jain Abhilekh aur Tirth Parichay, Madhya-Pradesh: 13 vi shati tak, Delhi, 2001</ref> Several of them mention Vardhanapur or Vardhamanapura as the name of the city and some mention a Jain community named Vardhamanapuranvaya (now called Badanera). Ancient Jain images continue to be found here.<ref>[https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/badnawar/news/even-today-there-are-statues-of-jain-tirthankaras-during-mining-021531-2729990.html आज भी यहां खनन के दौरान जैन तीर्थंकरों की प्रतिमाएं मिलती हैं, Dainik Bhaskar, Sep 15, 2018 ]</ref>

There is a very ancient Dharmaraja temple here. There is an old Jinda Samadhi in the temple complex. There is a very old gymnasium in the temple complex.

Badnawar was a [[pargana]] given to Raja Rai Singh, second son of Maharaja Ratan Singh Rathore founder of Ratlam and governor of 16 parganas of north Malwa in 1658, before the fatel battle of Dharmat (Fatehibad near Ujjain) against Mughal Aurangzab where Ratan Singh Rathore was killed and Rai Singh escaped wounded, in 1733 it came under Maratha rule by the conquest of Malwa by Peshwa Bajirao. Badnavar fell under Dhar ruled by the Maratha Sardar Puar. In 1818 Raja Bhagwant Singh was compelled to move to Kachhi Baroda and a settlement was made by Sir John Malcome of the British East India Company. [[Badnawar region]], included 4 prominent [[jagir]]s (feudatory (e)states), all held by [[Rajput]]: [[Bakhatgarh]] (35 villages) Multhan (29 villages), Kachhi Baroda (18 villages), Dotrea and [[Bidwal]] (eight villages).

== Demographics ==
As of 2011 India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Badnawar has a population of 20,928. Males constitute 52.03% of the population and the females 47.97%. Badnawar has a literacy rate of 81.3%, with 88.7% of the males and 41% of females literate.

== References ==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Dhar district]]

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