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