Jalia Devani (Hindi जलिया देवानी) is a former Rajput non-salute princely state on

Saurashtra Saurashtra, Sourashtra, or variants may refer to: ** Kathiawar, also called Saurashtra Peninsula, a peninsula in western India ** Saurashtra (state), alias United State of Kathiawar, a former Indian state, merged into Bombay State and since its d ...

peninsula, in

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

Western India Western India is a loosely defined region of India consisting of western states of India, Republic of India. The Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Ministry of Home Affairs in its Western Zonal Council Administrative divisions of India, Adminis ...

History

The princely state, in

Halar Halar (Haalaar) is a historical region of western India, located by the Gulf of Kutch coast on the northwestern area of Nawanagar, now Jamnagar, in Gujarat State, on Saurashtra peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present Jamnagar District ...

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, was ruled by

Jadeja Jadeja ( Gujarati, Sindhi: , or ''Jāṛejā'') is a Samma Rajput clan that inhabits the Indian state of Gujarat and the Tharparkar district of Sindh, Pakistan. They originated from Sammas of Sindh, a pastoral group, and laid a claim on the ...

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 ...

s. It comprised 10 villages, covering 36 square miles (93 km²), with a population of 2,444 in 1901 (2,688 in 1921), yielding 16,230 Rupees state revenue (1903–4, mostly from land; later 17.000), paying 1,525 Rupees tribute to the Gaekwar

Baroda State Baroda State was a kingdom within the Maratha Confederacy and later a princely state in present-day Gujarat. It was ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from its formation in 1721 until its accession to the newly formed Dominion of India. With th ...

. During the

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, it was a Fifth Class state, in the charge of the colonial

Eastern Kathiawar Agency The Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency was an agency of the Indian Empire, managing the relations of the Provincial Government of the Bombay Presidency with a collection of princely states. The political agent in charge of the ...

. The Jurisdictional competence of the

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were limited in civil cases to 5,000 Rupees, in criminal matters to two years of rigorous imprisonment and fines up to 2,000 Rupees. It ceased to exist on 15 February 1948 by accession to

Saurashtra State Saurashtra State, formally known as United State of Kathiawar and later United State of Saurashtra, was a state of India that existed between 1948 and 1956, on Saurashtra alias Kathiawar peninsula, with Rajkot as its capital. History For ...

(later merged into

Bombay State Bombay State was a large Indian state created in 1950 from the erstwhile Bombay Province, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Province (in British India roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Mah ...

, now part of Gujarat).

Ruling Thakore Sahebs

Succession was by

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, kinship details unavailable. * Thakore Saheb RAVAJI Bamanioji, 1st Thakore Saheb of Jalia Devani 1612/- * Thakore Saheb DUNGERJI Ravaji, 2nd Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb KAYAJI Dungerji I, 3rd Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb RANMALJI Kayaji I, 4th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb DEVAJI Ranmaji, 5th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb KAYAJI Devaji II, 6th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb RANMALJI Kayaji II, 7th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb MODJI Ranmalji, 8th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb JASAJI Modji, 9th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb KAYAJI Jasaji III, 10th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb HALAJI Kayaji, 11th Thakore Saheb till 1868 * Thakore Saheb MANSINHJI Halaji, 12th Thakore Saheb, born 1852, succeeded 31 December 1868. * Thakore Saheb SURSINHJI Mansinjhi, 13th Thakore Saheb * Thakore Saheb BHOJRAJJI Sursinjhi, 14th Thakore Saheb -/1919 * Thakore Saheb MOHABATSINHJI Bhojrajji, 15th Thakore Saheb of Jalia Devani, born 6 August 1910, succeeded 26 October 1919, married and had issue, last ruler till 1948, died 13 February 1955. The dynastic line is nominally continued.

References

External links and sources

Imperial Gazetteer, on DSAL.UChicago.edu - Kathiawar
* ndian Rajputs, with Genealogy and Google map
Indian princely States on www.uq.net.au, as archived on web.archive.org, with Genealogy
{{coord missing, Gujarat Princely states of Gujarat