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Khijadia Najani

village in Lakhpadar Thana on Saurashtra, Gujarat, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ21075470 ↗
Source-derived summary

Khijadia(-)Najani is a village and former non-salute princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, Western India.

History

The petty princely state, in Sorath prant, was ruled by Kathi Chieftains.

In 1901 it comprised a single village, with a population of 156, yielding 2,800 Rupees state revenue (1903–4, mostly from land), paying 52 tribute to the Gaikwar Baroda State.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Khijadia Najani” as village in Lakhpadar Thana on Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. 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 Khijadia, Najani and village can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Lakhpadar Thana on Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21075470. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901 and 1903.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Khijadia Najani”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Khijadia Najani primary sources, Khijadia Najani archive and Khijadia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Khijadia Najani”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Khijadia Najani” 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.