Silana is a village 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
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.
History
Silana was a minor princely state of
Sorath ''
prant
A prant is a historical district in India, and a native British Raj age term for a colonial district. The same name can thus have different meanings depending on the period.
Pre-colonial
Some prants are traditional names for parts of historical ...
'', comprising only the sole village, which during the
British raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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* it is also called Crown rule in India,
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or Direct rule in India,
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was handled by the colonial
Eastern Kathiawar Agency.
It was ruled by a
Kathi Chieftain. It had a population in 1901 of 774, yielding a state revenue of 6,250 Rupees (1903-4, nearly all from land), paying a tribute of 102 Rupees, to the Gaekwar
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 - Kathiawar
Princely states of Gujarat
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