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JUNAGARH, or JUNAGADH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 555 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUNAGARH, or JUNAGADH , a native See also:state of See also:India, within the See also:Gujarat See also:division of Bombay, extending inland from the See also:southern See also:coast of the See also:peninsula of See also:Kathiawar. See also:Area, 3284 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 395,428, showing a decrease of 19% in the See also:decade, owing to See also:famine; estimated See also:gross See also:revenue, £174,000; See also:tribute to the See also:British See also:government and the See also:gaekwar of See also:Baroda, £4200; a considerable sum is also received as tribute from See also:minor states in Kathiawar. The state is traversed by a railway from See also:Rajkot, to the seaport of Verawal. It includes the sacred See also:mountain of See also:Girnar and the ruined See also:temple of See also:Somnath, and also the See also:forest of Gir, the only See also:place in India where the See also:lion survives. Junagarh ranks as a first-class state among the many chiefships of Kathiawar, and its ruler first entered into engagements with the British in 1807. See also:Nawab See also:Sir Rasul Khanji, K.C.S.I., was See also:born in 1858 and succeeded his See also:brother in 1892. The See also:modern See also:town of JUNAGARH (34,251), 6o m. by See also:rail S. of Rajkot, is handsomely built and laid out. In See also:November 1897 the See also:foundation-stones of a See also:hospital, library and museum were laid, and an arts See also:college has recently been opened.

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