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Beawar (or Nayanagar) is a town in the Rajasthan state of India.

Beawar is a town of British India, the administrative headquarters of Merwara district in Ajmere Merwara. It is 33 miles from Ajmere, with a 1901 population of 21,928. It is an important centre of trade, especially in raw cotton, and had cotton presses and the Krishna cotton mills.

Beawar was founded by Colonel Dixon in 1835.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)