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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Radhanpur
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| settlement_type = Town
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India
| coordinates = {{coord|23.83|N|71.6|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Patan district|Patan]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 27
| population_total = 32076
| population_as_of = 2001
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
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| postal_code = 385340
| registration_plate = GJ - 24<ref>{{cite web |title=પાટણ અને રાધનપુર શહેરમાં રાત્રિ કર્ફ્યુની અવધિમાં વધારો. |url=https://ptndigitalmedia.com/night-curfew-in-patan/ |website=PTN News}}</ref>
| website = {{URL|gujaratindia.com}}
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'''Radhanpur''' is a town and a [[municipality]] in [[Patan district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Gujarat]].

==Origin of name==
According to the tradition, the city is named after Radhan Khan, a descendant of Fateh Khan Baloch. Fateh Khan Baloch received a freedom from the [[Gujarat Sultanate|
Gujarat Sultan]] Ahmad Shah III, which included the territory of the later day city of Radhanpur.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Imperial Gazetter of India|editor=W.W. Hunter|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|year=1908|volume=XXI|page=23|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_029.gif}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Radhanpur State-CoA392.jpg|thumb|left|Coat of arms of Radhanpur State]]
[[File:Muhammad Jalal ud-din Khan.jpg|thumb|Muhammad Jalal ud-din Khan, Nawab of Radhanpur, (1889-1936)]]
{{Main|History of Radhanpur|Radhanpur State}}
Radhanpur belonged to the Vaghelas and was known as Lunavada after Vaghela Lunaji of the Sardhara branch of that tribe. Subsequently, it was held as a fief under the [[Gujarat Sultanate]], by Fateh Khan Baloch, and is said to have been named Radhanpur after Radhan Khan of
that family.

[[Babi Dynasty|Babi]] ancestors either entered India accompanying Mughal emperor [[Humayun]] or entered the service of Sultan Muzaffar III of [[Gujarat Sultanate]] (1561 - 1572). Bahadur Khan Babi was, in the reign of [[Shah Jahan]], appointed manager of [[Tharad]], and his son Sher Khan Babi made manager, thanadar, of [[Becharaji|Chunval]] in 1663. Their descendants controlled various villages around Radhanpur from 1693 to 1730 as Mughal fief. In 1743, Babi descendant Jawan Mard Khan II took over viceroyalty of Ahmedabad and controlled several villages in North Gujarat. He was defeated by Maratha Gaekwads in 1753 at Ahmedabad and Gaekwads agreed to his demand of control of villages in North Gujarat. His descendants lost some of these villages to Gaekwads subsequently. In 1813, Sher Khan made a treaty with the Gaekwar and British and became British protectorate.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=785}} His descendants ruled the state until independence of India in 1947.The last ruler of Radhanpur [[State (polity)|state]] was [[His Highness]] [[Nawab]] Murtuza Khan Babi Bahadur.And [[His Highness]] was entitled with [[Hereditary]] 11 [[Gun]] [[salute]].

[[Radhanpur State]] was under [[Palanpur Agency]] of [[Bombay Presidency]],{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} which became part of [[Banas Kantha Agency]] in 1925. Bombay Presidency was reorganised as [[Bombay State]] after independence. In 1960, Gujarat was formed from Bombay State and Radhanpur fell under its Banaskantha district.

==Geography and Climate==
Radhanpur is located at {{Coord|23.83|N|71.6|E|}}.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/9/Radhanpur.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Radhanpur]</ref> It has an average elevation of 27 metres (88 feet).

{{Weather box|location = Radhanpur
|metric first = yes
|single line = yes
|Jan high C = 28.0
|Feb high C = 31.9
|Mar high C = 36.1
|Apr high C = 40.1
|May high C = 42.2
|Jun high C = 39.8
|Jul high C = 34.5
|Aug high C = 33.1
|Sep high C = 34.3
|Oct high C = 36.5
|Nov high C = 33.6
|Dec high C = 29.9
|Jan low C = 10.2
|Feb low C = 12.6
|Mar low C = 17.6
|Apr low C = 22.0
|May low C = 25.9
|Jun low C = 27.5
|Jul low C = 26.1
|Aug low C = 25.0
|Sep low C = 24.1
|Oct low C = 20.4
|Nov low C = 14.9
|Dec low C = 11.3
|Jan rain mm = 2
|Feb rain mm = 0
|Mar rain mm = 1
|Apr rain mm = 0
|May rain mm = 2
|Jun rain mm = 46
|Jul rain mm = 187
|Aug rain mm = 146
|Sep rain mm = 105
|Oct rain mm = 5
|Nov rain mm = 4
|Dec rain mm = 1
|source 1 = The Weather Channel
|date=December 2011}}

==Demographics==
{{As of|2008}} India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archivedate=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|accessdate=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Radhanpur had a population of 50001. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Radhanpur has an average literacy rate of 80%, higher than the national average of male literacy is and female literacy is 60%. In Radhanpur, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

==Places of interest==
[[File:Carved Wooden houses.JPG|thumb|Carved Wooden houses from the palace of nawab of Radhanpur]]
The town was surrounded by a part stone part brick loopholed wall fifteen feet high, eight feet broad, and about two and a half miles round, with corner towers, eight bastioned gateways, outworks and a ditch in past. There is also, surrounded by a wall, an inner fort or castle, called Rajghadi, where the Nawab used to live.

Of public buildings there are twenty four old Jain and ten old Hindu temples, and ten mosques. Of the Jain temples, some are large and richly carved with coloured marble floors. There are also some small well-carved tombs of former Nawabs including complete marble tomb of Nawab, Zoravar Khan.{{sfn | ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha'' | 2015 |page=346}}

==References==

===Notes===
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUBAAAAYAAJ|year=1880| ref={{sfnref |''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha''| 2015}}|publisher=Government Central Press| pages=337}}
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Radhanpur|volume=22}}
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