Halar
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Halar (Haalaar) is a historical region of western India, located by the Gulf of Kutch coast on the northwestern area of Nawanagar, now Jamnagar, in Gujarat State, on Saurashtra peninsula, roughly corresponding to the present Jamnagar District, Devbhumi Dwarka district, Morbi District and Rajkot District.
In 1901 it had an area of 19,365 km2 and a population of 764,992 inhabitants.
History
The name is derived from Jam Sri Halaji Jadeja who is supposed to be the 9th-generation grandfather of Jam Sri Rawalji Lakhaji Jadeja (who is the founder of the region and the first king to reign in the region); Halar was first established with this name by Jam Shri Rawalji Lakhaji, a Jadeja Rajput, in 1540.{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/jadejaorigins/home/history|title=Jadeja History – Jadeja Rajputs|access-date=12 November 2016|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022105512/https://sites.google.com/site/jadejaorigins/home/history|url-status=dead}}
During the British Raj Halar region was the western of the four prants or historical districts of Kathiawar, belonging to the Bombay Presidency, the others being Gohelwar (southeast), Jhalawar prant(north) and Sorath (southwest).
Princely States in Halar region
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At that time the region included numerous princely states belonging to the Kathiawar Agency, mostly ruled by Jadeja Rajputs.{{cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V13_015.gif|title=Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 13, page 9 — Imperial Gazetteer of India — Digital South Asia Library|access-date=12 November 2016}}
Its salute states were :
- First Class states :
- Nawanagar, title Maharaja Jam Sahib, Hereditary salute of 15-guns (19-guns locally)
- Gondal, title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- Morvi, title Maharaja, Hereditary salute of 11-guns
- Second Class states :
- Dhrol, title Thakore Sahib, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
- Rajkot, title Thakore Sahib, Hereditary salute of 9-guns
Its major non-salute states (mostly minor, usually several village) included :
- Fourth Class states : Kotda Sangani, Malia, Virpur
- Fifth Class states : Gavridad, Jalia Devani, Kotharia, Rajpara, Mengni, Pal
- Sixth Class states : Bhadva.
- Seventh Class states : Khirasra, Lodhika
Other non-salute state, granted no class, were :
- multiple villages, yet mostly minor except the first : DHRAFA State (known as DHRAFA 24C , means 24 villages under Dhrafa's rule) Amran, Kanpar Ishwaria, Mulila Deri, Satodad Vavdi, Sisang Chandli,
- single village, petty states : Bhalgam Baldhoi, Kansiali, Kotda Nayani, Makaji Meghpar,{{cite conference|url=http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/23McLeod.pdf |first=John |last=Mcleod |title=The Rise and Fall of the Kutch Bhayati |publisher=Eighteenth European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Lund |date=6–9 July 2004 |page=5 |access-date=13 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307204736/http://www.sasnet.lu.se/EASASpapers/23McLeod.pdf |archive-date=7 March 2012 }} Virvao.
Bibliography
- {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmrUykZPLpoC&q=ahir&pg=PA293 | title=Târikh-i-Soraṭh: A History of the Provinces of Soraṭh and Hâlâr| year=1882}}