Jawad, Madhya Pradesh, 458330, India
Jawad
a Tehsil and a Nagar Panchayat in Neemuch district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
In Arabic, JAWAD means big hearted and sakhi. Jawad was a part of the Udaipur princely state and was later occupied by the Marathas. Jawad has many famous and big temples. The town was surrounded by shahr kot (fort) with five major gates and 56 Bastille, the ruins of these can still be seen. In 1901 more than 36 banker families were engaged in money lending business and at that time the town was an important business center of Maratha Kingdom (Gwalior State). Earlier it had the largest agriculture area under opium production; nowadays very limited area falls under opium production.
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