Khadal is a town and former minor

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, ...

in Gujarat, western India.

History

Khadal was a Fourth Class princely state and taluka, comprising twelve more villages, covering eight square miles in Mahi Kantha, ruled by Kshatriya Makwana Koli Chieftains who converted to

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

. It had a combined population of 2,215 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 16,450 Rupees (less than half from land), paying tributes of 1,751 Rupees to the Gaekwad

Baroda State Baroda State was a state in present-day Gujarat, ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty of the Maratha Confederacy from its formation in 1721 until its accession to the newly formed Dominion of India in 1949. With the city of Baroda (Vadodara) as its c ...

and 250 Rupees to Attarsumba.

External links and sources

Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha
Specific {{coord missing, Gujarat Princely states of Gujarat Koli princely states Muslim princely states of India