MAHI KANTHA  , a political agency or collection of native states in India, within the Gujarat division of Bombay . Over half the territory is covered by the native state of Idar . There are eleven other chiefships, and a large number of estates belonging to Rajput or Koli thakurs, formerly feudatories of Baroda . Several of the states are under British administration . Total area, 3125 sq. m.; pop . (1901), 361,545, showing a decrease of 38 %in the decade, due to famine; estimated revenue, £76,000; tribute (mostly to the gaekwar of Baroda), £9000 . Many of the inhabitants belong to the wild tribes of Bhils and Kolis . In 1897 a metre-gauge railway was opened from Ahmedabad through Parantij to Ahmednagar . At Sadra is the Scott College for the education of the sons of chiefs on the lines of an English public school . There are also Anglo-vernacular schools at Sadra, Idar and Mansa . The famine of 1899—1900 was severely felt in this tract .