Akadia or Ankadia is a village and former

Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...

petty princely state on Saurashtra peninsula.

Village

Akadia (or Ankadia) lies in Amreli

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of Amreli district in

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, western India. It is situated about twenty miles north-east of Babra, and about four miles north of Bhadli, on the northern bank of the Keri river.

History

The princely state, in Gohelwar ''prant'', was ruled by Chavda Rajput Chieftains. During the

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, it was in the charge of the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency. It comprised only the single village, with a population of 102 in 1901, yielding 1,250 Rupees state revenue (1903–04, all from land), paying 154 Rupees tribute to the British and Junagadh State. It was a separate tribute paying state under the Babra ''thana'' during British period. The ruling Garasias were Chavda Rajputs and this was the only independent Chavda holding in Saurashtra.

References

External links and Sources

Imperial Gazetteer, on DSAL.UChicago.edu - Kathiawar

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