Jhampodad is a village and former Rajput petty
princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...
on the
Saurashtra peninsula, in
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the 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 fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, western
India
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.
History
The princely state, in
Jhalawar prant
:''See Jhalawar for namesakes''
Jhalawar(zalawad) was the northernmost of the four ''prant''s (traditional regions) into which the many feudal units (mostly petty princely states) of Kathiawar on Saurashtra peninsula in present Gujarat (western ...
, was ruled by
Jhala Rajputs.
In 1901 it comprised only the single village, with a population of 451, yielding 3400 Rupees state revenue (1903-4, all from land), paying 138 Rupees tribute to the British.
References
Princely states of Gujarat
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