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MAHI KANTHA

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 396 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAHI KANTHA , a See also:political agency or collection of native states in See also:India, within the See also:Gujarat See also:division of Bombay. Over See also:half the territory is covered by the native See also:state of See also:Idar. There are eleven other chiefships, and a large number of estates belonging to See also:Rajput or Koli thakurs, formerly feudatories of See also:Baroda. Several of the states are under See also:British See also:administration. See also:Total See also:area, 3125 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 361,545, showing a decrease of 38 %in the See also:decade, due to See also:famine; estimated See also:revenue, £76,000; See also:tribute (mostly to the See also:gaekwar of Baroda), £9000. Many of the inhabitants belong to the See also:wild tribes of See also:Bhils and See also:Kolis. In 1897 a See also:metre-See also:gauge railway was opened from See also:Ahmedabad through Parantij to See also:Ahmednagar. At Sadra is the See also:Scott See also:College for the See also:education of the sons of chiefs on the lines of an See also:English public school. There are also Anglo-See also:vernacular See also:schools at Sadra, Idar and Mansa. The famine of 1899—1900 was severely See also:felt in this See also:tract.

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