Wadhwan (State)
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| Capital | Wadhwan | ||||
| Form of government | Princely state (9 shot salute) | ||||
| surface | 627 km² | ||||
| population | 43,000 (1935) | ||||
| founding | 1630 | ||||
| resolution | February 15, 1948 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Jhala |
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Wadhwan was a princely state of British India in the northeast of the Kathiawar peninsula in what is now the state of Gujarat . Its capital was the place Wadhwan .
The principality was in 1630 by a Jhala - Rajputs in Dhrangadhra founded ruling family. From the beginning of the 19th century until 1947, Wadhwan was a British protectorate . In 1935 it had an area of 627 km² and 43,000 inhabitants. 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 and incorporated into the state of Bombay . With the partition of Bombay on May 1, 1960, Wadhwan came to Gujarat .
Under the Thakur Balsimhji (1885-1910), Wadhwan temporarily had its own state post with its own stamps .
See also
literature
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India . Self-published, Hamburg 2004 (CD-ROM).
- Imperial Gazetteer of India . 2nd edition Oxford 1908/31 (26 vol.)
- George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. In subsidiary alliance with the British Government . Academic Press, Delhi 1984 (unchanged reprint London 1875)
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia . 2nd ed. OUP, New York 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .
