Kingdom of Jhalavad was a kingdom present in the

Kathiawar Kathiawar (), also known as Saurashtra, is a peninsula in the south-western Gujarat state in India, bordering the Arabian Sea and covering about . It is bounded by the Kutch district in the north, the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest, and by the ...

region of

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. The kingdom came to be known as the Dhrangadhra State after it became a princely state in the nineteenth century. The town of Dhrangadhra served as its capital. It was also known as Halvad-Dhrangadhra State. Halvad once had been the capital of this state. It was ruled by the Jhala clan of

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History

The state was founded as Jhalawad/Zalawad in 1090 by Rajput ruler Harpadeva. The Grandson of Harpaldeva, Durjansal was appointed as ''Grihadyaksha'', ''Ran-su-ran'' (chief of nobles) and ''Mahamandaleshwara'' of the Chaulukya dynasty, he fought the Battle of Kasahrada on behalf of young

Mularaja Mularaja () was the king of Gujarat and the founder of the Chaulukya dynasty. Also known as the Chaulukyas of Gujarat or Solanki, this dynasty ruled parts of present-day Gujarat. Mularaja supplanted the last Chavda dynasty, Chavda king, and foun ...

and defeated the Ghurids led by Muhammad Ghuri. In 1742, Dhrangadhra, a new capital was founded and renamed the state. Among the earlier names were Kuwa and Halwad; the state is still sometimes styled Halwad(-Dhrangadhra). Under the British Raj, the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency was in charge of Dhrangadhra, which was a

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entitled to a Hereditary salute of 13 guns. The state had a population of 100,000 in 1892 on 3,023 Square Kilometers km². The privy purse was fixed at 380,000 Rupees when it ceased to exist by accession to recently independent India's western state Saurashtra (now in

) on 15 February 1948.

List of Rulers

Orders of chivalry

The Royal House of Dhrangadhra awards a

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of knighthood called the Order of Jhalavad, in six grades.

References

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History

List of Rulers

Orders of chivalry

See also

References