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The Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency of British India.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; [pron 1] 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
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Mar 28, 2022 · Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 nd October 1869 into a Gujarati Hindu Bania family of the Vaishya varna in Porbandar, also known as Sudamapuri, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the Indian Empire, the capital of a small principality in what is ...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his earliest known photo, aged 7, c. 1876 [citation needed] Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [9] was born on 2 October 1869 [1] to a Hindu Modh Baniya family [10] in Porbandar (also known as Sudamapuri ), a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar ...
- Formation as United State of Kathiawar
- Renamed Saurashtra
- Dissolution
Saurashtra State was originally named the United State of Kathiawar. It was formed on 15 February 1948, from approximately 200 large and small Princely States of the colonial Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency of the British rajterritory under direct colonial rule. The name of State was given after the Kathiawar and Saurashtra region, ...
In November 1948, the United State of Kathiawar was renamed the United State of Saurashtra or Saurashtra State, when a supplementary covenant was negotiated and executed by the native rulers of the princely states merged into United State of Kathiawar. Once the Saurashtra Union came into existence, a second supplementary covenant was executed in Ja...
On 1 November 1956 Saurashtra State ceased to exist as a State and became a part of Bombay State, the territory of which was enlarged on that day to include Kutch State, Saurashtra State, Marathwada & Vidarbha, while a southern portion was excluded, which went to Karnataka. Following Mahagujarat Movement, the Bombay State was again dissolved to be ...
See also Kathiawar on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer . KATHIAWAR, or Kattywar, a peninsula of India, within the Gujarat division of Bombay, giving its name to a political agency. Total area, about 23,400 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 2,645,805.
The Kathiawar Agency, on the Kathiawar peninsula in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, was a political unit of some 200 small princely states under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency of British India. [1] Contents. History; Princely states; See also; References; External links and Sources
