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Pandu State

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Pandu State
Princely State of British India
1948

Location of Pandu
Area 
• 1931
23.31 km2 (9.00 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
2 341
Succeeded by
India

Pandu 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[1] and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.[2] It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the Pandu Mehwas, petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825.[3] The state had a population of 2 341 and an area of 9 sq miles.[4]

Rulers

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

In 1922 the 5 shareholders of Pandu were:[5]

  • Khanjada Akbarkhan Bahadarkhan (b. 1898)
  • Khanjada Ranmastakhan Ahmedkha (b. 1878)
  • Khanjada Sikdarkha Tajukhan (b. 1893)
  • Sardarbibi, widow of Nathukhan Mansurkhan (b. 1862)
  • Khanjada Ayubkhan Hamirkhan

In 1927 the 5 shareholders of Pandu were:[6]

  • Jabarkhan Nijamkhan (b. ca. 1894)
  • Usafkhan Ranmatkhan (b. ca. 1913)
  • Sardarbibi, widow of Nathukhan Mansurkhan (b. 1862)
  • Sikdarkha Tajukhan¨
  • Ayubkhan Hamirkhan

References

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  1. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 264, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n295/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. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 270, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n301/mode/2up
  4. ^ . Memoranda On The Indian States 1940, p. 24, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35376/page/n33/mode/2up
  5. ^ The Rewakantha directory, p. 114, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/114/mode/2up
  6. ^ A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), p. 162, https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/161/mode/2up