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Punadra
Punadra is a town in the Gandhinagar List of districts of Gujarat, district of Gujarat in Western India, Western India. History Punadra was a Fourth Class princely state and taluka, comprising ten more villages, covering eleven square miles in Mahi Kantha Agency and ruled by Makwana (clan), Makwana Koli people, Koli Tribal chief, chieftains of Jhala (clan), Jhala Dynasty having Thakor title during the British Raj under the colonial Mahi Kantha Agency. The Koli rulers of Punadra were converted to Islam by Mahmud Begada. They are brothers of Dabha, Gujarat, Dabha State, Ramas State and Khadal State. It had a combined population of 2,662 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 15,598 Rupees (mostly from land), paying a tribute of 375 Rupees to the Gaekwad dynasty, Gaekwad Baroda State. Places of interest The village has an old fort from the time of Mahmud Begada (1459–1511). References {{coord, 23, 06, N, 72, 58, E, display=title, region:IN_type:city_source:GNS-enwik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroda State
Baroda State was a state in present-day Gujarat, ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty of the Maratha Confederacy from its formation in 1721 until its accession to the newly formed Dominion of India in 1949. With the city of Baroda (Vadodara) as its capital, during the British Raj its relations with the British were managed by the Baroda Residency. The revenue of the state in 1901 was Rs. 13,661,000. Baroda formally acceded to the Dominion of India, on 1 May 1949, prior to which an interim government was formed in the state. History Early history Baroda derives its native name ''Vadodara'' from the Sanskrit word ''vatodara'', meaning 'in the heart of the Banyan (''Vata'') tree. It also has another name, ''Virakshetra'' or ''Virawati'' (land of warriors), mentioned alongside ''Vadodara'' by the 17th century Gujarati poet Premanand Bhatt, native to the city. Its name has been mentioned as ''Brodera'' by early English travellers and merchants, from which its later name Baroda was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makwana (clan)
The Makwana, or Makawana is a clan ( Gotra) of the Koli caste found in the Indian state of Gujarat. The Makwana clan is mostly found among Talpada Kolis, Chunvalia Koli and Ghedia Kolis. In 1931 census of Baroda State, there were 20,700 Kolis of Makwana clan in the Baroda state's territory. Makwana Kolis mostly belong to the Hindu faith but a minor number of them converted to Islam during the reign of the invading Mughal power in Gujarat. Estates Here are list of Princely States ruled by Makwana Kolis, * Katosan State The Katosan is a town and former Princely State in Jotana Taluka of Mehsana district, Gujarat, India. The Bhagwanji Koli of Katosan state who was a able ruler of Katosan, raised the Kolis of Katosan Thana against British Raj during Rebellio ... * Gabat * Punadra Notable * Savshibhai Makwana References {{Reflist Koli clans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thakor
Thakor also known as Thakarda is subcaste of Koli community of Gujarat. Koli forms the largest caste-cluster, comprising 24% of the total population of the state. Koli Thakors in Gujarat placed in Other Backward Class including all of the Koli Community of state during the power of former Koli chief minister Madhav Singh Solanki. Koli Thakors are mostly businessmen or land-owners. Clans Some of the clans of Koli Thakors are here *Makwana *Parmar *Solanki *Jhala * Chauhan * Vaghela Organisation * Kshatriya Koli Thakor Samaj * Sree Smasth Chunvalia Koli Thakor Velnath Pragati Mandal * Chunvalia Koli Thakor Seva Trust, Surendranagar Notable Thakor * Alpesh Thakor, Member of legislative assembly from Radhanpur * Geni Thakor, Member of legislative assembly *Jagdish Thakor, Gujarat Congress President *Vikram Thakor *Madhav Singh Solanki See also * Koli rebellions * List of Koli people * List of Koli states and clans The Koli is an Indian caste found in Rajasthan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaekwad Dynasty
The Gaekwads of Baroda (also spelled as Gaikwads, Guicowars, Gaekwars) ( IAST: ''Gāyakavāḍa'') are a Hindu Maratha dynasty origin of the former Maratha Empire and its subsequent Princely States. A dynasty belonging to this clan ruled the princely state of Baroda in western India from the early 18th century until 1947. The ruling prince was known as the Maharaja Gaekwad of Baroda. With the city of Baroda (Vadodara) as its capital, during the British Raj its relations with the British were managed by the Baroda Residency. It was one of the largest and wealthiest princely states existing alongside British India, with wealth coming from the lucrative cotton business as well as rice, wheat and sugar production. Early history The Gaekwad rule of Baroda began when the Maratha general Pilaji Rao Gaekwad conquered the city from the Mughal Empire in 1721. The Gaekwads were granted the city as a Jagir by Chhatrapati Shahu I, the Chhatrapati of the Maratha empire. In their early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadal State
Khadal is a town and former minor Princely state in Gujarat, western India. History Khadal was a Fourth Class princely state and taluka, comprising twelve more villages, covering eight square miles in Mahi Kantha, ruled by Kshatriya Makwana Koli Chieftains who converted to Islam. It had a combined population of 2,215 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 16,450 Rupees (less than half from land), paying tributes of 1,751 Rupees to the Gaekwad Gaekwad (also spelt Gaikwar and Gaikwad; mr, Gāyǎkǎvāḍǎ) is a surname native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. The surname is found among the Marathas, Kolis and in Scheduled castes. It is also a common surname among Bharadis, Dhor, an ... Baroda State and 250 Rupees to Attarsumba. External links and sources Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha Specific {{coord missing, Gujarat Princely states of Gujarat Koli princely states Muslim princely states of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramas State
Ramas is a town and former Makwana Koli princely state in Mahi Kantha. The village is in Bayad Taluka, in Aravalli district of Gujarat state, western India. History Ramas was a Sixth Class princely state and taluka, comprising eight more villages, covering six square miles. It existed during the British Raj under the colonial Mahi Kantha Agency. Places of interest There is a step-well said to have been built five hundred years ago by the wife of a Nawa of Kapadvanj Kapadvanj (Karpat – Vanjiyam or "The Land of Textile") is a town as well as one of the Taluka of the Kheda district in the Gujarat India. It is located on bank of river Mohar. It is 65 km away from Ahmedabad and 93 km away from Vado .... References External links and sources Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha {{Coord missing, Gujarat Princely states of Gujarat Muslim princely states of India Villages in Aravalli district Koli princely states ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabha, Gujarat
Dabha is a town in the Aravalli district of Gujarat, in Western India. History Dabha was a princely state and taluka, comprising eight more villages, covering twelve square miles in Mahi Kantha Agency and ruled by Makwana Koli chieftains. It had a population of 1,307 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 4,379 Rupees (mostly from land), paying tributes of 150 Rupees to the Gaikwar Baroda State Baroda State was a state in present-day Gujarat, ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty of the Maratha Confederacy from its formation in 1721 until its accession to the newly formed Dominion of India in 1949. With the city of Baroda (Vadodara) as its c ... and 53 Rupees to the nearby Amliyara State. References Cities and towns in Aravalli district Princely states of Gujarat External links A Collection of Treaties, Engagements, and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries, Volume 6The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmud Begada
Sultan Mahmud Begada or Mahmud Shah I (), was the most prominent Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate. Raised to the throne at young age, he successfully captured Pavagadh and Junagadh forts in battles which gave him his name ''Begada''. He established Champaner as the capital. He was responsible for the destruction of the Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka, Gujarat, one of the Char Dhams considered sacred by Hindus. Names His full name was Abu'l Fath Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah I. He was born Fat'h Khan or Fateh Khan. He titled himself, ''Sultân al-Barr, Sultân al-Bahr'', Sultan of the Land, Sultan of the Sea. Of the origin of Mahmúd's surname Begra or Begarha, two explanations are given in ''Bird’s History of Gujarát'' (p. 202) and ''Mirăt-i-Ahmedi'' (Persian Text, pp. 74): # From his mustachios being large and twisted like a bullock's horn, such a bullock being called Begado. # That the word comes from the Gujaráti ''be'', two, and ''gadh'', a fort, the people giving him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ''Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the Muhammad in Islam, main and final Islamic prophet.Peters, F. E. 2009. "Allāh." In , edited by J. L. Esposito. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . (See alsoquick reference) "[T]he Muslims' understanding of Allāh is based...on the Qurʿān's public witness. Allāh is Unique, the Creator, Sovereign, and Judge of mankind. It is Allāh who directs the universe through his direct action on nature and who has guided human history through his prophets, Abraham, with whom he made his covenant, Moses/Moosa, Jesus/Eesa, and Muḥammad, through all of whom he founded his chosen communities, the 'Peoples of the Book.'" It is the Major religious groups, world's second-largest religion behind Christianity, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himself employed by the British East India company from the age of seventeen until the British government assumed direct rule over India in 1858." * * and lasted from 1858 to 1947. * * The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As ''India'', it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar (, ) is the capital of the state of Gujarat in India. Gandhinagar is located approximately 23 km north of Ahmedabad, on the west central point of the Industrial corridor between Delhi, the political capital of India, and Mumbai, the financial capital of India. Gandhinagar lies on the west bank of the Sabarmati River, about 545 km (338 miles) north of Mumbai and 901 km (560 miles) southwest of Delhi. The Akshardham temple is located in Gandhinagar. There was a determination to make Gandhinagar a purely Indian enterprise, partly because the state of Gujarat was the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. For this reason, the planning was done by two Indian town planners: Prakash M Apte and H. K. Mewada, who had apprenticed with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh. History The city was planned by Chief Architect H.K. Mewada, a Cornell University graduate, and his assistant Prakash M Apte. Demographics census of India, Gandhinagar had a population of 208,299. Males ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhala (clan)
Jhala is a Rajput clan. They are found in Rajasthan and Gujarat state of India. The clan is also found among Koli castes as Jala. The Jhalawar state ruled by Jhala Rajputs in Rajasthan was a 17-gun salute state, the princely state of Dhrangadhra was a 13-gun salute state in the 1920s, when it was ruled by members of the Jhala dynasty. At that time, Jhalas also governed in the 11-gun salute state of Wankaner and in the 9-gun salute states of Limbdi and Wadhwan, as well as in the non-salute states of Lakhtar During the British Raj period, Lakhtar State, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat, was a non-salute princely state and was governed by members of a Jhala Jhala (Hindi: झाला, ) is a term in Hindustani classical music which denote ..., Sayla and Chuda. References Further reading * Koli clans Rajput clans of Gujarat {{India-ethno-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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