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 ...
It has been told by many old aged people of this city that the name of the city came from a very interesting incident happened during the Mahabharata time. Krishna ran away with Rukhmani and defeated her brother Rukhmayaa. They were escaping in the jungles for days and nights. During this time Rukhmani washed her hair in the small pond (nowadays called "Utawadiya") available in Keshod. Hair are called "Kesha" and to wash is called "Udd" in Sanskrit, hence the name Keshod came from the addition of these to names in Sanskrit "Kesh-Udd". Since that time the city has been called as Keshod.
Infrastructure
Keshod Airport
Keshod AirportKeshod (Junagarh) Airport at
Junagadh district
Junagadh district is a district of the Indian state of Gujarat. Its administrative headquarters is the city of Junagadh.
Geography
The district is located on the Kathiawar peninsula in western Gujarat. It is surrounded by Rajkot District (North) ...
, which was used by Nawab of
Junagadh
Junagadh () is the headquarters of Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Located at the foot of the Girnar hills, southwest of Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar (the state capital), it is the seventh largest city in the state.
Literally t ...
Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III
Sir Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III Rasul Khanji, (Gujarati: મુહમ્મદ ખાન ત્રીજાની, Urdu: 2 August 1898 – 17 November 1959), was the last ruling Nawab of Junagadh of the princely state of Junagadh in India fr ...
while escaping to Pakistan.
Transportation
Keshod have good and clean Government Bus station and also good private buses as well as. Good frequency for the Junagadh, Somanath, Verval, Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Gandhinagar and other big cities.
Also
Keshod railway station
Keshod railway station is a railway station serving in junagadh district of Gujarat State of India. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway Zone
The Western Railway (abbreviated WR) is one of the 19 zones of Indian Rail ...
which connect to western railways. to Somnath->Junagadh->Rajkot->Porbandar->Ahemedbad->Jabalpur->Mumbai->Pune.
Keshod Airport
Keshod AirportKeshod (Junagarh) Airport at
Balagam
Balagam is a small town near Bantva, Keshod, Junagadh District, Gujarat, India.
History
Formerly, during Muslim period, this village was called Ghebanpur and was almost entirely inhabited by Muslims but afterwards falling waste it was repopulat ...
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madhavpur beach
Madhavpur is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Burea ...