JANJIRA  , a native

state of India, in the Konkan division of Bombay, situated along the coast among the spurs of the Western Ghats, 40 M . S. of Bombay city . Area, 324 sq. m . Pop . (1901), 85,414, showing an increase of 4% in the decade . The estimated revenue is about £37,000; there is no tribute . The chief, whose title is Nawab Sahib, is by descent a Sidi or Abyssinian Mahommedan; and his ancestors were for many generations admirals of the Mahommedan rulers of the Deccan . The state, popularly known as Habsan (=Abyssinian), did not come under direct subordination to the British until 187o . It supplies sailors and fishermen, and also firewood, to Bombay, with which it is in regular communication by steamer . The Nawab of Janjira is also chief of the state of JAFARABAD (q.v.) .