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Dadhalia State

vassal state under British Raj in Gujarat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ28174146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dadhalia is a town and former Rajput princely state in Gujarat, western India.

History

Dadhalia was a Fifth Class princely state, comprising eleven more villages, covering twenty-eight square miles in Mahi Kantha, It has been deprived of its jurisdiction as taluka due to maladministration and placed under Sabar Kantha thana.

It had a combined population of 2,619 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 3,689 Rupees (1903–4, half from land), paying tributes of 699 Rupees to the Gaikwar Baroda State and 611 Rupees to Idar State.

Rulers

Rulers took the title of Raja Sahib.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dadhalia State” as vassal state under British Raj in Gujarat. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dadhalia, State and vassal can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as vassal state under British Raj in Gujarat. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dadhalia State” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.