{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Khanwa | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = | nickname = | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = India Rajasthan#India | pushpin_label_position = right | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Rajasthan, India | coordinates = {{coord|27|2|7|N|77|32|35|E|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|India}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Rajasthan | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Bharatpur | established_title = <!-- Established --> | established_date = | founder = | named_for = | government_type = | governing_body = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_rank = | area_total_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_rank = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_footnotes = | demographics_type1 = Languages | demographics1_title1 = Official | demographics1_info1 = Hindi, Rajasthani | timezone1 = IST | utc_offset1 = +5:30 | postal_code_type = <!-- PIN --> | postal_code = | registration_plate = RJ | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Khanwa''' (also spelt '''Khanua''') is a village in Bharatpur District of Rajasthan, lying about 35 km from city of Bharatpur, the district headquarter, 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.<ref name=sm/>
==History== The Battle of Khanua was fought on 17 March 1527, between Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, and the Rajput army led by Rana Sanga, king of Mewar.<ref name=sm>Smith, p. 12</ref><ref>Havell, p. 11</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book|last=Havell|first=E. B.|authorlink=Ernest Binfield Havell|title=A handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the neighbourhood (1904)|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024120200#page/n11/mode/2up|year=1904|publisher=Longmans, Greens & Co., London|ref=Ha}} *{{cite book|last=Smith |first=Vincent Arthur|authorlink=Vincent Arthur Smith|title=Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924024056503#page/n7/mode/2up|year=1917|publisher=Oxford at The Clarendon Press|ref=Sm}}
Category:Villages in Bharatpur district
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