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Pimpladevi State

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Pimpladevi State
Princely State of British India
1948

Location of Pimpladevi in the Dang region
Area 
• 1931
8.9 km2 (3.4 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
125
Succeeded by
India

Pimpladevi State was a minor princely state during the British Raj in what is today Gujarat State India. It was initially administered by the Surat Agency [1] and then by the Western India States Agency. The state had a populatio of 125 and an area of 3.44 sq miles. [2]

It was more specifically classified as one of the 14 minor princely states of the Dangs, in the Dang district, India. [3]

Rulers

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The Rulers bore the title of Pradhan [4]

  • Naik Dongria walad Kajlya (b. 1850), Naik, fl. 1893 [5]
  • Vithia walad Mahasha Pradhan (b. 1874) 1904-fl. 1915 [6]
  • Kanjurao Walad Vithia, (b. 1913) 1926-fl. 1940 [7] [8]
    • Under the guardianship of Sukar Mahasha during his minority) [9]

References

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  1. ^ "Memoranda On The Indian States 1930", p. 290 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275346/page/n311/mode/2up
  2. ^ "Memoranda on the Indian states, 1935", P. 102 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n111/mode/2up
  3. ^ "The golden book of India; a genealogical and biograhical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon", P. 41 https://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethrich/page/40/mode/2up
  4. ^ "Memoranda On The Indian States 1940" P. 30 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35376/page/n37/mode/2up
  5. ^ "Golden Book Of India", P. 418 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529478/page/n441/mode/2up
  6. ^ "Memoranda On Native States In Indian 1915", P. 250 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35687/page/n255/mode/2up
  7. ^ "Memoranda on the Indian states, 1934", P. 102, https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.04376/page/101/mode/2up
  8. ^ "Memoranda on the Indian states, 1940" P. 24
  9. ^ "Memoranda on the Indian states, 1934", P. 102, https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.04376/page/101/mode/2up