Rajpara is a village and former non- salute Rajput

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 Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India.

History

The petty princely state, in

Gohelwar Gohelwar was one of the four ''prant''s or traditional provinces of Saurashtra, the others being Jhalawar or Jhalavad, Halar, and Sorath. Gohelwar covered the southeast of the Kathiawar peninsula, and roughly corresponds to the modern Bhav ...

prant A prant is a historical district in India, and a native British Raj age term for a colonial district. The same name can thus have different meanings depending on the period. Pre-colonial Some prants are traditional names for parts of historical ...

'', was ruled by

Sarvaiya The Sarvaiya also spelled ''Sarvaiyya'', ''Sarvia'', ''Sarwia'' are a social group of India, mainly found in Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of whi ...

Rajput Chieftains. In 1901 it comprised a single village, with a population of 552, yielding 2,150 Rupees state revenue (1903-4, nearly all from land), paying 274 Rupees tribute, to the Gaikwar

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

Junagadh State Junagarh or Junagadh ( ur, ) was a princely state in Gujarat ruled by the Muslim Babi dynasty in British India, until its integration into the Union of India in 1948. History Muhammad Sher Khan Babai was the founder of the Babi Pashtun d ...

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History

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