Gotardi State

{{Short description|Village in Gujarat state, India}}

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Gotardi State was a minor princely state during the British Raj in what is today Gujarat State India. It was initially administered by the Rewa Kantha Agency{{cite book | title=Memoranda On Native States In India 1909 | page=264 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n293/mode/2up | publisher=Superintendent Government Printing, India | accessdate=25 May 2025}} and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.{{cite book | title=Memoranda On The Indian States 1935 | page=100 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n109/mode/2up | publisher=Government of India Press | date=1936 | accessdate=25 May 2025}} It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the Pandu Mehwas, petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825.{{cite book | title=Memoranda On Native States In India 1909 | page=270 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n301/mode/2up | publisher=Superintendent Government Printing, India | accessdate=25 May 2025}} The state had a population of 430 and an area of {{convert|7.77|km2|mi2}}.

Rulers

The state was held by several shareholders (several people sharing the government and revenues of the state).

The Shareholders in 1888 Summary Of The Principal Measures Of The Viceroyalty Of The Maequess Of Lansdowne In Foregin Department December-1888 January-1894, p. 146, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207828/page/n151/mode/2up were:

  • Ramsingh Satu -March 4th 1888
  • Sawa Ramsingh fl. 1888 (son and successor of the above)

In 1922 The Rewakantha directory, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/118/mode/2up the four shareholders of Gotardi were:

  • Hathibhai Jethibhai (b. 1885)
  • Dayabhai Sivabhai (b. 1884)
  • Bhimsing Bhakeibhai (b. 1919)
  • Ghinabhai Jhujabhai (b. 1892)

In 1927 A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), p. 188, https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/157/mode/2up the four shareholders of Gotardi were:

  • Hathibhai Jethibhai (b. 1885)
  • Bhimsing Bhakeibhai (b. 1919)
  • Dapabhai Shivbhai
  • Jinabhai Punjabhai

References

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