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Malpura observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Madhya Pradesh.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Malpura ranks #57 of 191 villages in Badnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Malpura is a village of 1,282 people in 222 households (Census 2011) in Badnagar tehsil, Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh, the 57th-largest of 191 villages in Badnagar tehsil. Literacy is 53%, 8 points below the tehsil average of 61% and the sex ratio is 1,013 women per 1,000 men. It lies 36 km from the Ujjain district centre, 4 km from Palsora Makrawan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 456771, served by Barnagar post office; the LGD village code is 472113. The nearest hospital or health centre is City Hospital, 24 km away. The sarpanch is atmaram parmar, and the village votes in Badnagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Jitendra Uday Singh Pandya. The population is estimated at 1,511 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Malpura →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malpura · this village | 1,282 | 53% | — |
| Malpura · Manawar | 0 | — | 0 km N |
| Molakhedi · Badnagar | 654 | 55% | 1.7 km NW |
| Dunalja · Badnagar | 1,409 | 65% | 2.1 km W |
| Murarkhedi · Badnagar | 571 | 64% | 2.5 km S |
| Mahudialam · Badnagar | 777 | 64% | 2.3 km E |
| Harnawada · Badnagar | 1,168 | 46% | 3.1 km S |
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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