Bolundra

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Bolundra is a village, princely state and Taluka in Modasa, India. The village (Ta – Modasa) is in the Aravalli district in Gujarat state, western India, on the bank of the River Meshvo.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

History

The taluka was ranked a Sixth Class state, the lowest in the classification of the colonial Mahi Kantha Agency, and was ruled by Rajput chieftains. It covered six square miles, comprising five villages, and had a combined population in 1901 of 740, yielding a state revenue of 2,499 rupees (1903–4, mostly from land), paying a tribute of 134 rupees to Idar State.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_019.gif |encyclopedia=Imperial Gazetteer of India|volume=17|page=13 |title=Mahi Kanthar |via=Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|author1=Meyer, William Stevenson, Sir|author2=Burn, Richard, Sir|author3=Cotton, James Sutherland|author4=Risley, Herbert Hope, Sir|date=1908–1931 |access-date=26 July 2021}}

Rulers

The Rulers held the title of Thakur.

Thakur Salamsinghji (b. ca 1865) fl. 1900 The golden book of India; a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon, p. 43 https://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethrich/page/42/mode/2up
Thakur Bhud Sinhji (b. September 7th 1895) May 8th 1900-fl. 1909 Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 240, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n271/mode/2up
Thakur Hindusinhji Sardarsinhji (b. 1888) November 5th 1913-fl. 1940 Memoranda On The Indian States 1940, p. 344 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35376/page/n349/mode/2up

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Category:Princely states of Gujarat

Category:Villages in Aravalli district