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Timba State

former princely state

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ28174192 ↗
Source-derived summary

Timba is a village and former petty princely state in Gujarat, western India.

History

Timba was a Seventh Class taluka and princely state in Mahi Kantha, also comprising four more villages. Chieftains and part of the Gadhwara thana.

It had a combined population of 1,675 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 935 Rupees (1903–4, mostly from land) and paying 50 Rupees tribute to timba State.

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The public source identifies “Timba State” as former princely state. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Timba, State and former.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901, 1903—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Timba, State and former providing the first useful test.
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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 Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28174192. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1901 and 1903.

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This entry incorporates text from “Timba 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.