| Dhansura | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | India Gujarat#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Gujarat, India |
| Coordinates: | 23.3492°N 73.2119°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Gujarat |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Aravalli district |
| Governing Body: | Dhansura Gram Panchayat |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Total: | 12,424 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 328 |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Gujarati, Hindi |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 383310 |
| Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
| Area Code: | 2774 |
| Registration Plate: | GJ - 31 |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Nearest city |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Modasa |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Sex ratio |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | 926 ♂/♀ |
| Blank3 Name Sec1: | Literacy |
| Blank3 Info Sec1: | 80.98%% |
| Blank4 Name Sec1: | Lok Sabha constituency |
| Blank4 Info Sec1: | Aravalli |
| Blank5 Name Sec1: | Vidhan Sabha constituency |
| Blank5 Info Sec1: | Modasa |
| Blank6 Name Sec1: | Civic agency |
| Blank6 Info Sec1: | Dhansura Gram Panchayat |
Dhansura is a small town in the Aravalli district of Gujarat, India. The town is located about 85 km northeast of Ahmedabad. Previously it was a part of Sabarkantha district[1] and now it is part of Aravalli district.
Dhansura is 16 km from Modasa on the Gujarat state highway 59 and is connected with Modasa by state transport services. It is an important trading center with market yard, two oil-mills and five ginning and pressing factories. It is famous for its jaw crusher manufacturing industries, plastic stretch film manufacture, vibrating screen manufacture. There is a Panchayat ghar. There are hostels for students of Khadayata Banias, Kutchi Patels and Chaudhari Patels. There is a separate hostel for girls.
Around in 1982, B. J. Makwana of the Department of Archaeology of the Government of Gujarat and Suman H. Pandya of the DPCBL Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Dhansura undertook excavation at the mound known as Gormati-ni-Khan situated to the north of the village. During excavation, two human skeletons probably belonging to mesolithic period were unearthed from a depth of 105 cms which were oriented north-east to south-west. One of these was of an adult while the other was that of a child. Broken teeth of large animals, back-bones and other burnt bones, microlithic tools e.g., blade, lunates, point, flake, scraper made from chert, carnelian and chalcedony were also found. In one of the trenches human skeleton was found. In the same trench, below the skeleton a saddle quern found in association with charred bones of Bos indicus, hammerstones and microliths, etc.[2]