Bantva-Manavadar or Manavadar State was a

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...

during the era of the

British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi language, Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Q ...

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

. It was located on the Kathiawar peninsula in

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the nin ...

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: {{cite book, title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kathiawar, url=https://archive.org/details/1884GazetteerByBombayPresidencyVol8Kathiawar349D, year=1884, publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press, Bombay, volume=VIII, pages=377–378 Princely states of India Pashtun dynasties Muslim princely states of India History of Gujarat 1733 establishments in India 1947 disestablishments in India States and territories disestablished in 1947

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