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Sendhwa Sendhawa
Municipality
Sendhwa Fort
Sendhwa Location in Madhya Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 21°41′05″N 75°05′43″E / 21.68472°N 75.09528°E / 21.68472; 75.09528
Country	India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Barwani
Area
• Total	18 km2 (7 sq mi)
Elevation	409 m (1,342 ft)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	56,485
• Density	3,100/km2 (8,100/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	451666
Telephone code	07281
Vehicle registration	MP 46
Sex ratio	926 per 1000 males ♂/♀

Sendhwa is a city with a municipal government in Barwani district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the headquarters for Sendhwa Tehsil.^[1]

Sendhwa is located at MH&MP Border 21°41′N 75°06′E / 21.68°N 75.1°E / 21.68; 75.1.^[2] It has an average elevation of 409 metres (1341 feet).

^{[needs update]} As of the 2011 Census of India,^[3] Sendhwa had a population of 56,485. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Sendhwa has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 55%. In Sendhwa, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Sendhwa is primarily agricultural and forest lands. Mechanised farming has only been recently introduced.^[4] Cotton is a big crop,^[5] as are pulses, such as mung beans and moth beans.^[6] Other crops include wheat, sorghum (jowar), maize, millet (kodo-kutki), especially pearl millet (bajra), rapeseed (canola), mustard, and urd and other pulses (gram).