Punadra is a town in the

Gandhinagar district Gandhinagar district is an administrative division of Gujarat, India, whose headquarters are at Gandhinagar, the state capital. It was organized in 1964. It has an area of 2140 km2, and a population of 1,391,753 of which 43.16% lives in u ...

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in western India.

History

Punadra was a Fourth Class princely state and

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, comprising ten more villages, covering eleven square miles in

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. It had a combined population of 2,662 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 15,598 Rupees (mostly from land), paying a tribute of 375 Rupees to the

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Places of interest

The village has an old fort from the time of

Mahmud Begada Abu'l Fath Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud Shah I ( Gujarati: અબુલ ફત નાસીર ઉદ દિન મહમુદ શાહ), more famously known as Mahmud Begada, was a Sultan of the Gujarat Sultanate. Raised to the throne at a young age ...

(1459–1511).

References

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