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BHAUNAGAR, or BHAVNAGAR

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BHAUNAGAR, or BHAVNAGAR , a native See also:state of See also:India in the See also:Kathiawar agency, Bombay. Its See also:area covers 286o sq. m. In 1901 the See also:population was 412,664, showing a decrease of 12% in the See also:decade; the estimated See also:revenue is £255,800, and the See also:tribute £10,300. The See also:chief, whose See also:title is thakor See also:sahib, is See also:head of the famous See also:clan of the Gohel Rajputs of Kathiawar. The enlightened See also:system of See also:administration formed during the See also:rule of the thakor sahib maharaja See also:Sir Takhtsinghji Jaswatsinghji, G.C.S.I., was continued with admirable results under the See also:personal supervision of his son, the maharaja Bhausinghji, K.C.S.I. (b. 1895), and forms a See also:model for other native states. The Gohel Rajputs are said to have settled in the See also:district about 126o. Bhaunagar suffered terribly from the See also:famine of 1899-1900. About 6o m. of the Bhaunagar-See also:Gondal railway run through the state, with its See also:terminus at the See also:town of Bhaunagar, which is the See also:principal See also:port. The town of Bhaunagar is situated on the See also:west See also:coast of the gulf of See also:Cambay. The population in 1901 was 56,442.

It is the chief port in Kathiawar, though only admitting vessels of small See also:

burden. It was founded in 1723 by the thakor sahib Bhausinghji, after whom it is named, in See also:place of his former See also:capital, Sihor, which was considered too exposed to the Mahratta See also:power.

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