Varsoda is a small village located in Mansa,

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, on the bank of the Sabarmati River, formerly the seat of an eponymous

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princely state. It is approximately from Gandhinagar, the state capital of Gujarat.

History

Varsoda (or Varsora) was a Hindu

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...

in Mahi Kantha with an area of 28 square kilometers km² (11 square miles) before Indian Independence (1947). It had a population of 4,051 in 1892, 3,656 in 1901, yielding 18,871 rupees sate revenue (1903-4, mainly from land), and paying 1,583 rupees tribute to the Gaekwar

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Rulers

* Thakur Gambhirsinhji * Thakur Motisinhji -/1858 * Thakur Kishorsinhji Motisinhji, born 15 October 1840, succeeded 4 March 1858, died 18 July 1919 * Thakur Joravarsinhji, born 17 April 1914 and succeeded 18 July 1919. The state ceased to exist on 10 June 1948 by accession to

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References

External links and sources

Imperial Gazetteer, o DSAL - Mahi Kantha
{{Princely states of the Western India States Agency Villages in Gandhinagar district