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Barwaha

Barwaha is a municipality and sub district in Khargone district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India situated on the banks of Narmada river. Barwaha is the second biggest city of District after Khargone city. The Barwaha city is divided into 28 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Barwaha Municipality has an estimated population of 61,973 of which 32,940 are males while 29,033 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Literacy rate of Barwaha is 87.27% higher than state average of 69.32%. The male and female literacy rate is around 92.73% and 81.23%.

Barwaha Municipality has total administration over 10,133 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorized to build roads within Municipality limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction. The city is situated on the banks of the Narmada River. It has longest palace of Asia "Dariya Mahal" and largest CISF training campus in India. The city is surrounded by hundreds of very small villages and so is the main market area for those villages.

Barwaha is connected to Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat through various state highways and rail route. Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga is just 15 km from here.

Barwaha is known for cotton production and cotton ginning factories as well as Lime of Barwah and Chivda of Barwaha. It is also an important industrial city with several calcium, ginning, agro, bag, textile industries.

Since Barwaha holds the facts and figures that a district should have, locals are demanding a new "BARWAHA DISTRICT" from past 40 years.

Barwaha is a municipality in the District of Khargone is situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh in the central region of India. Khargone was formerly known as West Nimar. A part of the Indore Division lying on the region of Nimar, The District headquarters is located in the city of Khargone along with other functional offices i.e., police station, the collectorate office, telecom and other governmental organizations.

In ancient times, the Haihayas of Mahishmati (present-day Maheshwar) ruled this region. In early medieval age, the area was under the Paramaras of Malwa and the Ahirs of Asirgarh. In late medieval age, the area was under Malwa Sultanate of Mandu. In 1531, Gujarat sultan Bahadur Shah brought this area under his control. In 1562, Akbar annexed this territory along with the whole Malwa to Mughal empire. In 1740 Marathas under the Peshwa brought the area under their control. In 1778, Peshwa distributed this territory to the Maratha rulers, Holkars of Indore, Sindhias of Gwalior and Ponwars of Dhar. At the time of Maratha rulers Barwaha comes under Holkar reign. Barwaha is considered to be the holiday place by the Maharajah of Indore in pre-independent British India.

During the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, Rana Durjansal of Tomar dynasty received the Zamindari of Jaitpuri (Barwaha) in 1646. In the year 1758, Shivaji Rao Holkar of Holkar dynasty built the longest palace of Asia the Dariya Mahal at Barwaha which is now an administration building of CISF RTC Barwaha.

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