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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bhadas
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| pushpin_map = India Haryana#India
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Haryana, India
| coordinates = {{coord|27|56|50|N|77|00|27|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{Ind}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Haryana]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts in India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Nuh district|Nuh]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 187
| population_total = 6,830
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi]], [[Haryanvi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 122108
Vehicle registration plate = HR-28
| website = {{URL|http://mewat.gov.in}}
| iso_code = [[ISO 3166-2:IN|IN-HR]]
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| settlement_type = Village
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'''Bhadas''' is a village, near [[Nuh (city)|Nuh city]] in [[Nuh district]] of [[Haryana]] state of [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://indiawater.gov.in/imisweb/RwsMain.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/IMISWeb/DataEntry/HabitationDirectory/Reports/Rep_DirectoryList.aspx |title=DDWS-IMIS |website=indiawater.gov.in |publisher=[[Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation]] |location=India |language=en |access-date=2018-12-15}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ruraldiksha.nic.in/PendingInstts_Org.aspx?scode=12&Digest=GVmVhxeOLEXOq6cq9HUp8A |website=ruraldiksha.nic.in |publisher=[[Ministry of Rural Development (India)]] |location=India |language=en |access-date=2018-12-15 |title=Following Institutes AWAIT State Government Authorization}}</ref> It lies in the [[Mewat]] region of [[National Capital Region (India) |Delhi NCR]] and [[Delhi–Mumbai Expressway|Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor]]. It is located on the [[List_of_highways_in_Haryana#Major_District_Roads_(MDR)|MDR135]]<ref>Kiran Prem, 1994, Haryana District Gazetteers: Faridabad, Page 263.</ref> to [[Hathin]]–[[Palwal]] and is also adjacent to the [[Delhi–Mumbai Expressway]].<ref name=vil1/> It is 20 km from the [[Ferozepur Jhirka]] subdivision and 20 km from the [[Nuh (city)|Nuh city]], district headquarter, 100 km far from national capital [[New Delhi]] and 355 km from state capital [[Chandigarh]].<ref name=vil1/> It falls on the southern border of [[Haryana]], near [[Alwar district|Alwar]] and [[Bharatpur district|Bharatpur]] Districts of [[Rajasthan]]. This lies in one of the most backward areas of the nation.<ref>[https://www.news18.com/news/india/battling-most-backward-district-tag-mewat-women-get-a-shot-of-empowerment-1919021.html Battling 'Most Backward' District Tag, Mewat Women Get a Shot of Empowerment], news18.</ref>

==History==
{{anchor | Bhadas railings | Bhadas Yaksha | Hathin railings | Hathin Yaksha }}
Circa 150 BCE to 100 CE [[Shunga Empire]] or [[Kushan Empire]] era [[Hindu_temple#Nagara_Architecture_of_North_Indian_temples|Hindu temple]] [[guard rail]] pillars were excavated from a filled well of Bhadas village as well as from Hathin, and they are now exhibited in the [[Haryana State Museum]].<ref>Devendra Handa, 2006, Sculptures from Haryana: Iconography and Style, Page 7.</ref><ref name=hist1>Chander Pal Singh, 2003, "Early Medieval Art Of Haryana", Koshal Book Depot, page 6.</ref><ref>1985, Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Volume 15, Page 1.</ref> The railing pillars have images of [[Yaksha]] and 3 [[Mortise and tenon|mortises]] carved on them. These pillars from Bhadas and Hathin might have belonged to the same monument as the [[lens]]-shaped mortises on both have same size, same color of stone, same distance between each of three mortises craved on the pillars and same yaksha carvings.<ref name=bhad1>Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, 2007, [https://books.google.com/books?id=X7Cb8IkZVSMC&dq=bhadas+village+in+haryana&pg=PA67 History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura: Ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE], page 67.</ref> The yaksha on the Bhadas pillar stands on [[protome]] of a [[cloven hoof]]ed animal, with raised now-broken right hand holding a flower and left hand on the hip holding the drapery.<ref name=bhad1/> [[Roundel]] on the top of the pillar has a [[Hybrid beasts in folklore|composite animal]] with protome of [[deer]] and hindquarters of [[makara]] superimposed over a blooming [[Nelumbo_nucifera#Flower_lotus|lotus]].<ref name=bhad1/>

==Ecology==
Bhadas lake is an important wetland in the area that receives many migratory birds here in the winter season and other ponds around Nuh, including [[Common wood pigeon|wood pigeon]] and [[stock dove]] that arrive in pairs.<ref>1883-84, Haryana District Gazetteers: Ambala district gazetteer, page 13.</ref>

== Demography ==
It had a population of 6,830 in 1,028 houses as per [[2011 census of India]].<ref name=vil1>[https://villageinfo.in/haryana/mewat/ferozepur-jhirka/bhadas.html Census 2011].</ref>

==Education==
* Al-Falah Model Senior Secondary School<ref>[http://twocircles.net/2009dec18/mewat_witnessing_great_educational_revolution.html Mewat witnessing a great educational revolution], Twocircles.com.</ref>
* Govt School

== See also ==
* [[Gurgaon]]
* [[Bhiwadi]]

==References==
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{{Haryana}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Nuh district]]
[[Category:Mewat]]

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Bhadas, Haryana - Revision history

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