GONDAL  , a native

state of India, in the Kathiawar political agency of Bombay, situated in the centre of the peninsula of Kathiawar . Its area is 1024 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 162,859 . The estimated gross revenue is about £roo,000, and the tribute £7000 . Grain and cotton are the chief products . The chief, whose title is Thakur Sahib, is a Jadeja Rajput, of the same clan as the Rao of Cutch . The Thakur Sahib, Sir Bhagvat Sinhji (b . 1865), was educated at the Rajkot college, and afterwards graduated in arts and medicine at the university of Edinburgh . He published (in English) a Journal of a Visit to England and A Short History of Aryan Medical Science . In 1892 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. of Oxford University . He was created K.C.I.E. in 1887 and G.C.I.E. in 1897 . The state has long been conspicuous for its progressive administration .

It is traversed by a railway connecting it with

Bhaunagar, Rajkot and the sea-board . The town of Gondal is 23 M. by rail S. of Rajkot; pop . (19oi) 19,592 .