Zalim Jalia was a

Koli Koli may refer to: Places * Koli, Finland, a hill in Finland * Koli National Park, a national park in Finland * Koli, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran * Koli Airfield, a former airfield in the South Pacific Other uses * Koli peopl ...

king of Dahewan in

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. He was a close aide to the Cambay State ruler. In order to restore structure in Bharuch State's territory, he attacked the towns Petlad and Jambhusar at the request of

Nawab Nawab ( Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب; bn, নবাব/নওয়াব; hi, नवाब; Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi , Sindhi, Urdu: ), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, ...

Momin Khan. In 1756,

Jambusar Jambusar is a town and a municipality in Bharuch district in the 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 p ...

town was subordinated to

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Ganesh Appa under the

Peshwa The Peshwa (Pronunciation: e(ː)ʃʋaː was the appointed (later becoming hereditary) prime minister of the Maratha Empire of the Indian subcontinent. Originally, the Peshwas served as subordinates to the Chhatrapati (the Maratha king); later ...

government of the

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. Afterwards,

Momin Khan asked

Thakor Thakor also known as Thakarda is subcaste of Koli community of Gujarat. Koli forms the largest caste-cluster, comprising 24% of the total population of the state. Koli Thakors in Gujarat placed in Other Backward Class including all of the Koli ...

for help. The forces of Thakor and Nawab attacked Jambusar together and plundered the

Maratha The Marathi people ( Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as ...

there for five days. In 1772, the Diwan Lallubhai of the state of

Cambay Cambay, Kambay or Khambhat was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The City of Khambat (Cambay) in present-day Gujarat was its capital. The state was bounded in the north by the Kaira district and in the south by the Gulf of C ...

joined with the

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and ousted Nawab Momin Khan. Nawab went on to visit the

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 ...

ruler of Amod but was banished, until Thakor Zalim Jaliya offered protection to the Nawab. On 24 September 1773, Thakor attempted to establish rule over Bharuch, but was unsuccessful. In 1778, the relationship between

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and

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was weakening. The British government sent the

and captured the

Maharaja Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king". A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, a ...

of Baroda, Fatehsinhrao Gaikwad. When the army passed through the Dahewan territory of Thakor Zalim Jalia, Thakor attacked the army, forcing the British government to send its 400 skilled soldiers to defend them.{{Cite book, last=Russell, first=Robert Vane, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6h2Gm1gPZZQC&q=zalim+jalia+Koli, title=The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India (Volumes I and II), date=2020-09-28, publisher=Library of Alexandria, isbn=978-1-4655-8294-2, language=en

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