Ghorasar is a town in the

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

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History

Ghorasar was a Fourth Class

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

and

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

, comprising fourteen more villages, covering sixteen square miles in

Mahi Kantha Agency Mahi Kantha was a political agency or collection of princely states in British India, within the Gujarat Division of Bombay Presidency. In 1933, the states of the Mahi Kantha Agency, except for Danta, were included in the Western India States ...

and ruled by

Dabhi The Dabhi is a clan ( Gotra) of the Koli caste found in the Indian state of Gujarat. The Kolis of Dabhi clan ruled over Ghorasar, a princely state in Mahi Kantha Agency Mahi Kantha was a political agency or collection of princely states in Br ...

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chieftains. It had a combined population of 6,291 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 23,415 Rupees (just over half from land), paying tributes of 3,501 Rupees to the

Gaikwar 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 pr ...

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 488 Rupees to Kaira. On 10 July 1943, Ghorasar ceased to exist, being among the princely states merging under the 'Attachment Scheme' into the Gaekwar

, following its fate into independent India's

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Sou ...

and after its split from

Sources and external links

General
Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha

Dabha to Harduaganj by William Wilson Hunter
Specific {{coord, 22, 54, N, 72, 50, E, display=title, region:IN_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki Cities and towns in Ahmedabad district Princely states of Gujarat