Raika (Reyka) is a village and former ''Mehwa'' (petty

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 Vadodara Taluka of Vadodara district 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 ...

, western

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 so ...

. Raika is Part of Vadodara Metropolitan Region.

History

The non-salute state was the major one of the three ''Dorka states'' (part of the Pandu Mehwas, under the colonial

Rewa Kantha Agency Rewa Kantha was a political agency of British India, managing the relations (indirect rule) of the British government's Bombay Presidency with a collection of princely states. It stretched for about 150 miles between the plain of Gujarat and ...

), the other two being Donka itself and

Angadh Angadh was a ''Mehwal'' (petty princely state) under British India, spanning a part of what is now Vadodara district in Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country ...

. It was ruled by

Rajput Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Ra ...

Chieftains and covered three square miles with a population of 474 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 3,609 Rupees (1903-4; nearly all from land) and paying 443 Rupees tribute 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 ...

External links

Imperial Gazetteer, on DSAL - Rewa Kantha
Princely states of Gujarat Villages in Vadodara district {{Vadodara-geo-stub