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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Dhansura<br />
| native_name = <br />
| native_name_lang = <br />
| other_name = Crusher City<br />
| nickname = <br />
| settlement_type = Town<br />
| image_skyline = <br />
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| pushpin_map = India Gujarat#India<br />
| pushpin_label_position = right<br />
| pushpin_map_alt = <br />
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|23|20|57|N|73|12|43|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| subdivision_type = Country<br />
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Aravalli district]]<br />
| established_title = <!-- Established --><br />
| established_date = <br />
| founder = <br />
| named_for = <br />
| government_type = <br />
| governing_body = Dhansura Gram Panchayat<br />
| unit_pref = Metric<br />
| area_footnotes = <br />
| area_rank = <br />
| area_total_km2 = <br />
| elevation_footnotes = <br />
| elevation_m = <br />
| population_total = 12,424<br />
| population_as_of = 2011<br />
| population_rank = <br />
| population_density_km2 = 328<br />
| population_demonym = <br />
| population_footnotes = <br />
| demographics_type1 = Languages<br />
| demographics1_title1 = Official<br />
| demographics1_info1 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<br />
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]<br />
| utc_offset1 = +5:30<br />
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]<br />
| postal_code = 383310<br />
| area_code_type = Telephone code<br />
| area_code = 2774<br />
| registration_plate = GJ - 31<br />
| blank1_name_sec1 = Nearest city<br />
| blank1_info_sec1 = Modasa<br />
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Human sex ratio|Sex ratio]]<br />
| blank2_info_sec1 = 926 [[male|♂]]/[[female|♀]]<br />
| blank3_name_sec1 = Literacy<br />
| blank3_info_sec1 = 80.98%%<br />
| blank4_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank4_info_sec1 = Sabarkantha<br />
| blank5_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank5_info_sec1 = Modasa<br />
| blank6_name_sec1 = Civic agency<br />
| blank6_info_sec1 = Dhansura Gram Panchayat<br />
| website = {{URL|gujaratindia.com}} <br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
'''Dhansura''' is a small town in the [[Aravalli district]] of [[Gujarat]], India. The town is located about 85 km northeast of [[Ahmedabad]]. Previously it was a part of [[Sabarkantha district]]<ref name="ParikhPaṭela2005">{{cite book|author1=Rasiklal Chhotalal Parikh|author2=Gautama Vā Paṭela|author3=Bharati Kirtikumar Shelat|author3-link=Bharati Shelat|title=Rasika-bhāratī: Prof. R.C. Parikh Commemoration Volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4DXAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi|location=Gandhinagar|page=389}}</ref> and now it is part of Aravalli district.<br />
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Dhansura is 16&nbsp;km from [[Modasa]] on the Gujarat state highway 59 and is connected with Modasa by state transport services. It is an important trading centre with market yard, two oil-mills and five ginning and pressing factories. It is famous for its jaw crusher manufacturing industries. There is a [[Gram panchayat|Panchayat ghar]]. There are hostels for students of Khadayata Banias, [[Kutchi people|Kutchi]] Patels and [[Anjana Chaudhari|Chaudhari Patel]]s. There is a separate hostel for girls.<br />
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==History==<br />
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Around in 1982, B. J. Makwana of <br />
the Department of Archaeology of the Government of Gujarat and Suman H. Pandya of the DPCBL <br />
Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Dhansura undertook excavation at the mound known as Gormati-ni-Khan situated to the north of the village. During excavation, two human skeletons probably belonging to mesolithic period were unearthed from a depth of 105 cms which were <br />
oriented north-east to south-west. One of these was of an adult while the other was that of a child. Broken teeth of large animals, back-bones and other burnt bones, microlithic tools e.g., blade, <br />
lunates, point, flake, scraper made from chert, carnelian and chalcedony were also found.In one of the trenches human skeleton was found. In the same trench, below the skeleton a saddle <br />
quern found in association with charred bones of Bos indicus, hammerstones and microliths, etc.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sandhya Bansal|url=http://archive.org/details/indianarchaeology198990areview_833_Q|title=Indian Archaeology 1989 90 A Review}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Villages in Aravalli district]]<br />
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