Sendhwa Tehsil सेंधवा तहसील | |
|---|---|
  Sendhwa Tehsil Location inMadhya Pradesh | |
| Coordinates:21°41′42″N075°05′33″E / 21.69500°N 75.09250°E /21.69500; 75.09250 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Madhya Pradesh |
| District | Barwani district |
| Government | |
| • Type | Panchayat Samiti |
| • Body | Council |
| Area | |
• Tehsil | 815.78 km2 (314.97 sq mi) |
| • Rural | 815.78 km2 (314.97 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Tehsil | 303,554 |
| • Density | 370/km2 (960/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Postal code (PIN) | 451666 |
| Area code | 07281 |
| ISO 3166 code | MP-IN |
| Vehicle registration | MP 46 |
| No. of Villages | 78 |
Sendhwa Tehsil is anadministrative subdivision (tehsil or tahsil) inBarwani District,Madhya Pradesh (state) of India. Its headquarters is in the town ofSendhwa. Sendhwa is the biggest revenue generating tehsil in the Barwani District.[citation needed] Sendhwa Tehsil has the highest population of any tehsil in Barwani district.[1]
The fort and town of Sendhwa gave their name to the area, that was a tehsil under the
On 15 December 2010,Warla Tehsil was separated from Sendhwa Tehsil.[3]
Sendhwa Tehsil is southwest of the district headquarters,Barwani. It is bounded by Warla Tehsil to the south, Niwali Tehsil to the east, and Rajpur Tehsil to the north, all of Barwani District, and byBhagwanpura Tehsil ofKhargone District (West Nimar District) to the west.[4]
[needs update]As of the2011 Census of India, Sendhwa Tehsil had one statutory town (nagar palika), Sendhwa, and seventy-eight villages, one of which was uninhabited.[5]
The tehsil is primarily agricultural and forest lands. Mechanised farming has only been recently introduced.[6] Cotton is a big crop,[7] as arepulses, such asmung beans andmoth beans.[8] Other crops include wheat,sorghum (jowar), maize,millet (kodo-kutki), especiallypearl millet (bajra),rapeseed (canola),mustard, andurd and other pulses (gram).[9]
Regular markets are held in the town of Sendhawa and the villages of Chacria (Chachariya Pati), Dhanori, and Zopali (Jhopali, Jopali).[10] The village of Babdd Bhagoriya has a once-a-year market and festival.[10]
The only real industry is cotton processing.[11]
Sendhwa Tehsil had 303,554 people as of the 2011 census, not including the 56,485 in the town of Sendhwa; for a total of 360,039.[1]
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