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Uchad State

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Uchad State
Princely State of British India
1948

Location of Uchad
Area 
• 1931
22.015 km2 (8.500 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
1 489
Succeeded by
India

Uchad 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 28 Princely States making up the Sankheda Mehwas, estates dating from the fall of Pawagadh in 1484, by Rajputts settling on the south of the territory near the town of Sankheda, from which the Sankheda Mehwas derive their name.[3]

The state had a population of 1 489 and an area of 8.5 sq miles.[4]

It was a tributary to Baroda.[5] The state contained the village of Wadia, where land was leased by the Thakur to the British colonial Government in 1927.[6]

History

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The state of Baroda had imposed a tribute on the Sankheda Mewas, it's extraction causing British intervention in 1822, brokering an agreement where the Gaekwar received tribute from the states, while their independence was recognised by Baroda, which also promised to respect the petty states' rights.[7]

Rulers

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The Rulers had the title of Thakur.

  • Thakur Jitabawa Badharbawa Daima (b. 1846) November 17, 1860-fl. 1909 [8]
  • Thakur Mahomadmiya Jitamiya (b. June 15, 1895) June 24, 1915- fl. 1939 [9]

References

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  1. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 266, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n297/mode/2up and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.
  2. ^ Memoranda On The Indian States 1935, p. 104, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n113/mode/2up?view=theater
  3. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 272, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n303/mode/2up
  4. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 266 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n297/mode/2up
  5. ^ 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 (1893 Edition), p. 546 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529478/page/n567/mode/2up
  6. ^ Collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries (1931) https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7255/page/n249/mode/2up
  7. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 272, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n303/mode/2up
  8. ^ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 266 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n297/mode/2up
  9. ^ Memoranda On The Indian States 1939, p. 26, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35598/page/n35/mode/2up