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GONDAL , a native See also:state of See also:India, in the See also:Kathiawar See also:political agency of Bombay, situated in the centre of the See also:peninsula of Kathiawar . Its See also:area is 1024 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 162,859 . The estimated See also:gross See also:revenue is about £roo,000, and the See also:tribute £7000 . See also:Grain and See also:cotton are the See also:chief products . The chief, whose See also:title is Thakur See also:Sahib, is a Jadeja See also:Rajput, of the same See also:clan as the See also:Rao of See also:Cutch . The Thakur Sahib, See also:Sir Bhagvat Sinhji (b . 1865), was educated at the See also:Rajkot See also:college, and afterwards graduated in arts and See also:medicine at the university of See also:Edinburgh . He published (in See also:English) a See also:Journal of a Visit to See also:England and A See also:Short See also:History of See also:Aryan Medical See also:Science . In 1892 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. of See also:Oxford University . He was created K.C.I.E. in 1887 and G.C.I.E. in 1897 . The state has See also:long been conspicuous for its progressive See also:administration . It is traversed by a railway connecting it with See also:Bhaunagar, Rajkot and the See also:sea-See also:board . The See also:town of Gondal is 23 M. by See also:rail S. of Rajkot; pop . (19oi) 19,592 . |
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