Palitana State#Rulers

{{Short description|Princely state of India}}

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{{Infobox former subdivision

|conventional_long_name = Palitana State

|common_name = Palitana

|nation = British India

|subdivision = Princely State

|era =

|year_start = 1194

|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 =

|image_coat = Palitana-coa2.jpg

|image_map = SaurashtraKart.jpg

|image_map_caption = Location of Palitana in Saurashtra

|stat_area1 = 777

|stat_year1 = 1921

|stat_pop1 = 58000

|footnotes =

}}

File:Palitana Temples 1860 2013-11-22 00-48.jpg in 1860]]

Palitana was a princely state in British India until 1948. The capital was the city of Palitana. It ceased to exist when India became independent.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}

History

Palitana was a princely state in British India. It formed a part of the Kathiawar Agency of the Bombay Presidency.{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Palitana |volume=20 |page=635}} Area, 289 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 52,856, showing a decrease of 15% in the decade. Gross revenue, £42,000; tribute jointly to the Gaekwar of Baroda and the Nawab of Junagadh, £700. The capital of the state, Palitana, had a population of 12,800.

Its ruler enjoyed a 9-guns salute.Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer p. 1417.

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