Jafarabad State

{{Short description|Former state in British Raj (c. 1650–1948)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}

{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox former subdivision

|native_name = જાફરાબાદ રિયાસત

|conventional_long_name =Jafarabad State
Jafrabad State

|common_name =Jafarabad

|nation = British India

|status_text = Princely State of British India
In union with Janjira (1759–1948)

|era =

|year_start = c. 1650

|date_start =

|event_start=

|year_end = 1948

|date_end =

|event_end= Indian independence

|event1 =

|date_event1 =

|p1 =

|s1 = India

|flag_p1 =

|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg

|image_flag = Jafarabad State Merchant Flag vector.svg

|image_coat =

|image_map = SaurashtraKart.svg

|image_map_caption = Location of Jafrabad State in Saurashtra

|stat_area1 =68

|stat_year1 = 1901

|stat_pop1 = 12,097

|today = Gujarat, India

|footnotes =

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Jafarabad, or Jafrabad State,{{cite book |last=Vadivelu |first=A.|date=1915 |title=The Ruling Chiefs, Nobles & Zamindars of India|volume=One |location=Madras |publisher=G. C. Loganadham Bros.|page=325}} was a tributary princely state in India during the British Raj. It was located in the Kathiawar Peninsula on the Gujarat coast. The state had formerly been part of the Baroda Agency and later of the Kathiawar Agency of the Bombay Presidency.

Jafrabad State was a dependency of the Nawab of Janjira State,{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Jafarabad |volume=15 |page=125}} located 320 km to the south-southeast on the Konkan coast.

Jafrabad town, the capital and only municipality, is located 275 km south of Ahmedabad and 240 southwest of Baroda. The state was formed by the city and 11 villages and initially consisted of two districts located on both sides of the estuary of the Ranai river. Jafrabad state had an area of 68 km² and a population in 1881 of 4,746 and in 1901 of 6,038 inhabitants. The majority of the population were Muslims (80%) and the rest Hindus. The state and the town took their name from Sultan Muzaffar Jafar from Gujarat who built fortifications.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}