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Kanksiali

human settlement in Gujarat, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ21075466 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kangshiyadi is a village and former Rajput non-salute princely state in Gujarat, Western India.

History

Kangshiyadi was a petty princely state comprising only the village, in the Halar prant of Kathiawar, ruled by Jadeja Rajput Chieftains.

It had a population of 224 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 2,538 Rupees (1903–1904, mostly from land) and paying a tribute of 111 Rupees, to the British and Junagadh State.

Sources and external links

Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 15, p.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kanksiali” as human settlement in Gujarat, India. 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, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Kanksiali, human and settlement can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Gujarat, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21075466. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1903 and 1904.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kanksiali” 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.