Badanavalu
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Bdanavalu School
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| Coordinates: 12°04′15″N 76°45′09″E / 12.070845°N 76.752409°ECoordinates: 12°04′15″N 76°45′09″E / 12.070845°N 76.752409°E | |
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 India
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| State | Karnataka |
| District | Mysore |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:25) |
Badanavalu is a village in Mysore district of Karnataka state, India.
Badanavalu is located in Nanjangud taluk of Mysore district. The village lies in the Mysore to Chamarajanagar road.
Mahatma Gandhi visited this village in 1932. At that time Badanavalu village was a center of Khadi and village industries which Gandhi wanted to promote. Gandhi was surprised by the success of a Khadi plant that ran on a 7.5 acre campus. In 1927, they established a Khadi center with only four Dalit women. Today more than 300 women work in that center.
In 1993, three backward class farmers were murdered by a group of upper caste Hindus in Badanavalu village. The criminals were punished only after 17 years. As a retaliation, the Dalits set fire to the house of the upper caste Hindus living in Ummathur village. A Dalit rally in Nanjangud was fired upon by the police and two of the volunteers died in the mishap.
There is a railway station at Badanavalu and it is called Narasam Budhi railway station.
The population of the village is 2,784 and there are a total of 632 families. The literacy is 63%. There are a total of 632 houses.
Hedathale 2.6 km, Nerale 4.0 km, Hemmaragala 4.0 km, Mallupura 4.2 km, Nanjangud 6.6 km, Horalavadi 7.2 km, Devarasanahalli 7.3 km, Nagarle 8.5 km, Doddakowlande 8.5 km, Kalale 9.5 km, Hulimavu 9.9 km, Hadinaru 11.1 km, Suthur 11.5 km
The village was formerly called Narasaambhoodi.
According to one mythological story, a god called Bhairaveshwara came to the village and threw brinjal to each house and named it as Badanavalu.
Badanavalul is 34 km from Mysore and 10 km from Nanjangud. It is 158 km away from Bangalore.
Badanavalu has a post office and the pincode is 571312.
Badanavalu Highschool
Bdanavalu Temple
Village gate
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