Raika (Reyka) is a village and former ''Mehwa'' (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, ...

) in Vadodara Taluka of Vadodara district of Gujarat, western India. Raika is Part of Vadodara Metropolitan Region.

History

The non-salute state was the major one of the three ''Dorka states'' (part of the Pandu Mehwas, under the colonial Rewa Kantha Agency), the other two being Donka itself and

Angadh Angadh was a ''Mehwal'' (petty princely state) under British India, spanning a part of what is now Vadodara district in Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country ...

. It was ruled by Rajput Chieftains and covered three square miles with a population of 474 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 3,609 Rupees (1903-4; nearly all from land) and paying 443 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 ...

External links

Imperial Gazetteer, on DSAL - Rewa Kantha
Princely states of Gujarat Villages in Vadodara district {{Vadodara-geo-stub