Badanavalu is a village in Mysore district of Karnataka state, India.

Gandhi was surprised by the success of a khadi plant that ran on a 7.5 acre campus.

[2] In 1993, three backward class farmers were murdered by a group of upper caste people in Badanavalu village.

As a retaliation, the Dalits set fire to the house of the upper caste people living in Ummathur village.

A Dalit rally in Nanjangud was fired upon by the police and two of the volunteers died in the mishap.