Khanwa
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Khanwa | |
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Village | |
  Khanwa Location in Rajasthan, India  Khanwa Khanwa (India) | |
| Coordinates: 27°2′7″N 77°32′35″E / 27.03528°N 77.54306°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Rajasthan |
| District | Bharatpur |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Vehicle registration | UP |
| Website | up |
Khanwa (also spelt Khanua) is the name of a village in Bharatpur District of Rajasthan, lying about 60 km west of the city of Agra in India. It was the site of A Historic Battle in the history of North India, and a few miles from Fatehpur Sikri.[1]
History
The Battle of Khanua was fought on March 17, (1527), between Babur, founder of the Mughal empire in India on the one hand and Rajput army led by Rana Sanga, king of Mewar, on the other.[1][2]
References
- Havell, E. B. (1904). A handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the neighbourhood (1904). Longmans, Greens & Co., London.
- Smith, Vincent Arthur (1917). Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605. Oxford at The Clarendon Press.
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