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{{About|the municipality in Madhya Pradesh, India|its namesake district|Jhabua district}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
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[[File:AlirajpurKart.jpg|thumb|[[Jhabua State]] in the [[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]]]
'''Jhabua''' is a town and a [[municipality]] in [[Jhabua district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]]. It is the administrative headquarters of Jhabua District.

Recently the district has got international recognition because of its endemic hen species "kadaknath". It has been granted the GI tag.

==History==
The ancestor of the family was Rao Bar Singh a.k.a. the Birji, fifth son of [[Jodha of Mandore]] of [[Marwar]]. His descendant, Kunwar Kesho Das or Kishan Das, founded Jhabua in 1584.

Raja Kesho Das was first Raja of Jhabua 1584/1607. He was granted the title of Raja by the Emperor of Delhi, as a reward for a successful campaign in Bengal, and for punishing the Bhil chiefs of Jhabua who had murdered an Imperial Viceroy of Gujarat. The names of the rulers are:<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/j/jhabua.html</ref>

===Jhabua Princely State===
{{main|Jhabua State}}
Jhabua was the capital of a [[princely state]] of the [[British Raj]]'s [[Central India Agency|Central India]], in the [[Bhopawar]] agency. Its area, with the dependency of Rutanmal, was approx {{convert|1336|sqmi|km2}}.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Jhabua |volume=15 |page=411}}</ref> The Rajas of Jhabua belonged to the Rathor dynasty.<ref>http://rulers.org/indstat1.html</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Year
|-
| Karan Singh || 1607–1610
|-
| Mah Singh || 1610–1677
|-
| Kushal Singh || 1677–1723
|-
| Anup Singh || 1723–1727
|-
| Sheo Singh|| 1727–1758
|-
| Bahadur Singh || 1758–1770
|-
| Bhim Singh || 1770–1821
|-
| Pratap Singh || 1821–1832
|-
| Ratan Singh || 1832–1840
|-
| Gopal Singh || 1841–1895
|-
| Udai Singh || 1895–1942
|-
| Dilip Singh (titular post independence) || 1942–1965
|-
| Ajit Singh (titular) || 1965–2002
|-
| Narendra Singh (titular) || 2002 – present
|}

===Post-Independence===
After India's independence in 1947, its rulers acceded to India, and Jhabua became a part of the newly created [[Madhya Bharat]] state, which in 1956 was merged into Madhya Pradesh.

Bhabhara which was once part of the Jhabua district, is the place where [[Chandrasekhar Azad]], the freedom fighter spent his early life when his father Pandit Sitaram Tiwari was serving in the erstwhile estate of [[Alirajpur]]. But, when Alirajpur district (which was once the part of Jhabua district) got separated from Jhabua, Bhabhra became the part of Alirajpur district.

==Geography==
Jhabua has an average elevation of 318 metres (1043 feet).<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/35/Jhabua.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Jhabua]</ref> Jhabua is located at the bottom left side of MP, mainly towards Gujarat.

==Demographics==

{{As of|2001}} 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> Jhabua had a population of 30,577. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. As per 2011 census, Jhabua has an average literacy rate of 44%. Male literacy is at 54% and female literacy is 34%. In Jhabua, 20% of the population is under 6 years of age.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jhabua.nic.in/jhabua_profile.pdf |title=Profile of Jhabua District }}</ref>

Jhabua city is famous for its black cotton soil commonly known as "White Gold". There are many interesting places in Jhabua Thasil.

More than 65% of Population is below poverty line.

==Educational status of Jhabua==
{{unreferenced section|date=August 2016}}
There is one government college SCAMV (Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad Mahavidyalaya) which imparts post graduate education and a government engineering college [[Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam UIT Jhabua]].

Some of the private colleges are Maa Tripura College of Nursing, Padma College of Education, Maa Sharda College of Nursing, Maa Sharda College of Education. Some of the top English schools are Kendriya Vidyalaya, New Catholic Mission School, Jain Public School, Sharda Vidhya Mandir and Keshav International School.

[[File:The New Catholic Mission School(CBSE affiliated).PNG|thumb|right|This is the building of The new catholic mission school, Jhabua]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/world/asia/09food.html |title=With the Poor Still Starving, India Rethinks Safety Net |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}

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