Kamadhia is a town and former

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, ...

in the western Indian state of

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 ninth ...

History

The small state in

Gohelwar Gohelwar was one of the four ''prant''s or traditional provinces of Saurashtra, the others being Jhalawar or Jhalavad, Halar, and Sorath. Gohelwar covered the southeast of the Kathiawar peninsula, and roughly corresponds to the modern Bhav ...

prant of

Kathiawar Kathiawar () is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about bordering the Arabian Sea. It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat (Gulf of Cambay) in the east. In the northeast, it is ...

, was ruled by Muslim Chieftains of a Mir family. It yielded a state revenue of 26,000 rupees (mainly from land), paying 377 Rupees tribute to the British. Kamadhia was granted as

by the penultimate Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah to Sayyid Mir Sarfaraz Ali, an aristocratic descendant of Muhammad and of Maudud Chishti, one of the founders of the Chishti Sufi order in 1817. The above first Darbar Sahib, Mir Sarfaraz Ali obtained a waiver of

tribute A tribute (; from Latin ''tributum'', "contribution") is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of submission, allegiance or respect. Various ancient states exacted tribute from the rulers of land which the state conqu ...

to the colonial British government. This was received because of a successful rescue mission led by Mir Sarfaraz Ali commanding a garrison of 600 troops of the Gaekwad of Baroda to save the second Peshwa from a possible assassination attempt. Having successfully rescued the Peshwa in Malwa, Mir Sarfaraz Ali returned to Kamadhia. The state came in the charge of the colonial

Eastern Kathiawar Agency The Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency was an agency of the Indian Empire, managing the relations of the Provincial Government of the Bombay Presidency with a collection of princely states. The political agent in charge of the ag ...

, like many tiny states in Saurashtra. Still in his reign, the neighboring villages of Gothra (Gothda, later turned into a zamindari

jagir A jagir ( fa, , translit=Jāgir), also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. It developed during the Islamic rule era of the Indian subcontinent, start ...

), Walen (Vullun) and Vavdi (Dvaudee) were added to the state, which thus extended to 10.4 km2 and in 1948 reached a population of close to 2,000 souls. In 1939 when famine and drought struck Kathiawar and Gujarat the first ruler to take necessary steps for the relief of his people was the Darbar of Kamadhia who issued orders reducing taxation and appointing a committee to bring to the notice of the Darbar any public grievances.Times of India 2 February 1939 It ceased to exist by accession to newly independent India's

United State of Kathiawar Saurashtra, also known as United State of Kathiawar, was a State of India that existed between 1948 and 1956, on Saurashtra alias Kathiawar peninsula, with Rajkot as its capital, History Formation as United State of Kathiawar Saurashtra ...

on 15 February 1948. However the line of Darbars is nominally continued.

Rulers

The Muslim princes of the Mir family held the title Darbar Sahib. Additional titles of address that accompanied the formal title of Darbar Sahib were: Meherban, Naamdar and Mir Saheb Sarkar. * 1817 - 1860 Darbar Shree Sayyid Mir Sarfaraz `Ali I (d. 1860), grandfather of Kumar Shree Sayyid Mir Ibrahim Ali, ancestor of the

Zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...

s of Gothra jagir * 1860 - 1863 Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Ja`far (Jufar) `Ali Khan (b. 1817 - d. 1863), son of the above. He was also the Last Custodian of the Royal House of Surat. * 1863 - 1921 Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Zulfikar `Ali Khan (b. 1859 - d. 1921), son of the above * 1863 - 1890 Mir Bakar `Ali Khan (b. 1823 - d. 1890) - Regent to the infant Mir Zulfikar Ali, brother of Mir Ja'afar Ali * 1921 - 1934 Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Sarfaraz `Ali Khan II (b. 1880 - d. 1934), son of Zulfikar. He had only one daughter who died childless * 1934 - 15 August 1947 Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Ghulam Khwaja Mo`in- ud-Din Khan (b. 1887 - d. 1958), brother of Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Sarfaraz Ali Khan II * The dynastic line is nominally continued Nominal title holders after 1958 were/are: Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Khairat Ali Khan (Khwaja Kutb-uddin), (b.1917-d.1998) eldest son of Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Ghulam Khwaja Moin-ud-Din Khan (the last ruler of Kamadhia) Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Jaffar Ali Imam, (b.1942). Eldest son of Darbar Shree Nawab Sayyid Mir Khairat Ali Khan and Current Head of the Family. He has one son, Kumar Shree Nawabzada Sayyid Moin Mir (b.1974) who has two daughters Kunwarani Nawabzadi Sayida Aara Mir and Kunwarani Nawabzadi Sayida Zohaa Mir.

References

External links

Indian Princely States on www.uq.net.au, as archived on web.archive.org, with coat of arms, genealogy

* ttp://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html WorlsStatesmen - India - princely States K-Z* Memoir of the British Army in India during the Mahrattha War 1817&1819 by Colonel Valentine Blacker * Testimonials and recommendatory notes to Mir Sarfaraz Ali Saheb. Printed at the Diamond Jubilee Printing Press, Ahmedabad, 1900 * Times of India 2 February 1939 {{coord, 21.8333, N, 70.9333, E, source:wikidata, display=title Princely states of Gujarat Muslim princely states of India