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Fadke Studio

In 1933 Shri Raghunath Krishna Fadke was came to Dhar from Mumbai. He is a well Known Murtikar. He was called here by Dhar Maharaja to prepare some Murti's in Chhatri of Maharaja. Shri Fadke had established his studio On Khanderao Tekri Which was called as FADKE STUDIO later On. Shri Fadke was given PADMASHRI for his famous Murti "Tatwa Chintana" in 1961. In 1971 he was also awarded with Doctorate. He was died in 1972. Statues Made by him were established at Dhar, Indore, Dewas, Ujjain, Mumbai. Presently also several statues made by him & his successors were plased at FADKE STUDIO. This Statues gives the feeling that as if they were real & will Start to talk with us.Nearly 25,000 people visit to FADKE STUDIO per year.

•  Bhoj Shala
•  Killa (Old Fourt)
•  Kalica Mata Mandir (Temple)
•  Ladh Masjid
•  Man-Tung-Giri (Jain Tirtha)
•  Nityanand Ashram
•  Bandichod Dargaha
•  Maulana Kamalludin Chisti Dargaha
•  Vijay Mandir
•  Bada Ganpati Mandir
•  Puratatva Sangrahalay

Mohankheda - Jain Tirth

Mohankheda-Holi Jain Tirth is situated 47 Kms From Dhar On Indore-Ahemadabad Highway. This Tirth was established by Poojya Gurudev Shri Rajendra Surishwarji Maharaj Sahab around 1940. This Tirth was given New & artistic look by Acharya Dev Shri Vidhyachandra Surishwarji Maharaj Sahab. This Tirth have Shodh Shikhari Jinalaya, 16 feet heighted Bhagwan shri Adinathji's Pratima and Samadhi Mandir of Shri Rajendra Surishwarji, Shri Yatindra Surishwarji & Shri Vidhyachandra Surishwarji Maharaj Sahab.

Amjhera

Village Amjhera lying in the south-east corner of Sardarpur Tahsil is about 23 km. from Sardarpur and about 40 km. to the north-west of Dhar. All the three places are connected by road on which buses ply.

The village appears to have been of some importance in old days as it has a number of temples of Shaiva and Vaishnava sects, tanks, Chhatris, satistones, wells a mosque and a fort with palaces inside.

As many as five Shaiva temples dedicated to Mahadeva, Chamunda and Ambika and two Vaishnava temples of Lakshmi-Narayana and Chhturbhujanatha are in the village.

Two tanks known as Brahma Kund and Surya Kund and located in one group near the village. A group of three cenotaphs, built in memory of former Rajput Chiefs, is also situated close to the village. Of five cenotaphs of another group two are built in stone and the rest in bricks.

Sati stones, 25 in number, are seen in one group at the locality. The date of these monuments is not known. Amjhera was the head-quarters of a Mahal under Sarkar Mandu during the reign of Akbar.

The fort of Amjhera built of rubble stones and bricks in lime was probably constructed by Raja Ram Singh Rathor of Jodhpur in the 18-19the Century A.D. The fort has three old palaces all of the same period. Of these three only the Rang-Mahal deserves mention as it contains mural paintings depicting court life. The fort was held by Raja Bakhtawar Singh in 1857. This Raja boldly revolted against the British rule whose officers caught and hanged him to death at Indore during the days of the great revolt of 1857. Thus the Raja immortalised the village Amjhera by sacrificing his life at the altar of Independence of India. Confiscating his estate the British Government made it over to the Sindhia.

The village was populated by 4298 persons in 1971 as against 3,392 in 1961.

Badnawar

This headquarters town of a tahsil of the same name lies about 50 km. north-west of Dhar, the district headquarters town with which it is connected by a road on which buses play. Badnawar might be a corrupt form of Wardhanpur or Hatnawat named after King Hastin.

The place is evidently an old one as it has yielded old monuments, the earliest of which is of the 11-12th Century A.D. and it has a magnificient Shaiva temple repaired later on. Besides this, there are three other temples of a later period including one called Udanya temple. A few images have been found here bearing dates Vikram Samvat 1219, 1229 and 1336 corresponding to A.D. 1162, 1172 and 1279, respectively. The town has an old mosque constructed in A.D. 1688 and the remains of the fortress or garhi mentioned by Abul Fazi.

During the reign of Akbar Badnawar was the headquarters of a Mahal in Ujjain Sarkar of Malwa Subah.

According to the Census of 1971 the town was populated by 9,130 persons as against 2,661 in 1901.

Bagh Caves

These remarkable and interesting rock-cut shrines and monasteries are situated in the Narmada valley among the southern slopes of the Vindhya hill in Kukshi Tahsil of Dhar District. These are about 152 km. by road from the nearest railway station Mhow, on Ajmer-Khandwa narrow gauge section of the Western Railway. Buses play on the road and taxis are available at Indore and Mhow to reach the caves. From Dhar these are about 108 km. to the south-west and from Kukshi about 18 km. to the north.

These caves belong to the Budhist faith and it is not certain as to how and when these caves began to be called Bagh Gumpha. In modern times these caves were first discovered in 1818. It seems that after the extinction of Buddhism in Central India by the 10th Century A.D. these caves remained effaced from human memory. During the intervening centuries the caves often became the abode of tigers (Bagh) and this association of tigers with the caves gave then the present name. The village situated at a distance of about 8 km. and the river flowing nearby the cave came to be known as Bagh village and Bagh river. The other view states otherwise. It believed that either the name of the river or of the village has given its name to others.

Until recently these caves were roughly assigned to the Seventh Century from the style of architecture and painting but a copper-plate grant inscription since discovered pushes back the date of at least some of them to the 4th or 5th Century A.D.