Nawanagar (State)

	Nawanagar
	1540-1948
flag	coat of arms
Capital	Nawanagar
Form of government	Princely state (13 shot salute)
surface	9818 km²
population	470,000 (1941)
founding	1540
resolution	February 15, 1948
	State religion: Hinduism ; Dynasty: Jadeja
	Nawanagar on the Kathiawar Peninsula
	Ranjitsinhji, celebrated cricketer and Maharaja of Nawanagar
	Postage stamp from Nawanagar (1893)

Nawanagar ( Hindi : नवानगर रियासत , Navānagar Riyasat , Gujarati નવાનગર રાજ્ય Navānagara Rajya ) was a princely state of British India in the west of the peninsula Kathiawar in today's state of Gujarat .

history

The principality was in 1535 by Jam Ravalji Lakhaji from the Rajputs - Dynasty of the Rao of Kutch founded (the Jadecha clan). In 1540 he founded the city of Nawanagar , now Jamnagar . The ruler title has been since Vibhaji II. Ranmalji (1852–96) Maharaja Jam Sajib. The dynasty also included other small Indian princely states in Gujarat such as Drhol and Morvi .

Nawanagar was a British protectorate from 1812 to 1947 and in 1941 had an area of 9818 km² and 470,000 inhabitants. From 1924 to 1944 it belonged to the Western India States Agency . On August 15, 1947, it became a member of the Saurashtra State Union and on February 15, 1948, it joined India. On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved, Nawanagar was incorporated into the state of Bombay . With the partition of Bombay on May 1, 1960, Nawanagar came to Gujarat as Jamnagar District .

Others

The Jadecha clan was known for killing its female offspring. As early as 1817 it was observed that there were administrative districts in which no female descendants of the clan existed.

The penultimate reigning Maharaja Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja (1872-1933) was a famous cricket poker players who played against his rule for the English cricket team and was known for his lavish lifestyle.

From 1877–95 the state had its own post office with its own stamps and until 1947 also its own coins.

literature

Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1875, ( digitized version ).
Navānagar State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 18: Moram to Nayāgarh. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 419-421 .
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia (= Association for Asian Studies. Reference Series. 2). 2nd impression, with additional material. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .

Web links

Commons : Principality of Nawanagar - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ LS Vishvanath: Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State. In: Tulsi Patel (Ed.): Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. SAGE 2007, p. 270.
^ First stamp of the state from 1877

[1] LS Vishvanath: Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State. In: Tulsi Patel (Ed.): Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies. SAGE 2007, p. 270.

[2] First stamp of the state from 1877