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Jesar State

Jesar State was a minor princely state during the British Raj in what is today Gujarat State India. It was initially administered by the Rewa Kantha Agency and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency. It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the Pandu Mehwas, petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825. The state had a population of 514 and an area of 1.5 sq miles.

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Jesar State
Princely State of British India
1948
Location of Jesar
Area 
• 1931
3.885 km2 (1.500 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
514
Succeeded by
India

Jesar State was a minor princely state during the British Raj in what is today Gujarat State India. It was initially administered by the Rewa Kantha Agency1 and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.2 It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the Pandu Mehwas, petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825.3 The state had a population of 514 and an area of 1.5 sq miles.4

Rulers

The state was held by several shareholders (several people sharing the government and revenues of the state).

Between at least 1922 5 and 1927 6 the four shareholders of Jesar were:

  • Gagabhai Khatubhai (b. 1871)
  • Bhathibhai Gokalbhai (b. 1885)
  • Bai Suraj (b.1879) widow of Dipsing Jitbhai
  • Damabhai Dayabhai (b. 1890)
References

References

  1. Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 264, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n295/mode/2up
  2. Memoranda On The Indian States 1935, p. 100, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n109/mode/2up
  3. Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 270, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n301/mode/2up
  4. Memoranda On The Indian States 1935, p. 100, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n109/mode/2up
  5. The Rewakantha directory, p. 120, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/120/mode/2up
  6. A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/157/mode/2up