Badnera
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Badnera
(or Wadnera).— Town in the District and taluk of Amraoti, Berar, situated in 2o°52'N. and 77 46' E. Population (1901), 10,859. The town is mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbarl as the head-quarters of a pargatia in the sarkar of Gawll. It is known as Badnera Bibl, as it formed, with Karanja, part of the dowry of Daulat Shah Begam, daughter of Darya Imad Shah of Berar, who was given in marriage to Husain Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar. The exactions of successive rulers depopulated Badnera, and it was plundered in 1822 by Raja Ram, who partly demolished the fort and town walls. The railway station (Badnera junction) is 413 miles from Bombay, on the Nagpur branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. It is connected with Amraotl by a branch (state) railway 6 miles long. Badnera is important as the station whence all the Amraotl cotton is dispatched to Bombay. The town contains a cotton-spinning and weaving factory, where 24S looms and 16,336 spindles were at work in 1903-4, the number of hands employed being 822.
