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|conventional_long_name =Pandu State <br />
|common_name =Pandu <br />
|nation = [[British India]]<br />
|subdivision = [[Princely State]]<br />
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|event_end= [[Independence of India|Accession to the Union of India]]<br />
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|image_map_caption = Location of Pandu <br />
|stat_area1 =23.31<br />
|stat_year1 =1931<br />
|stat_pop1 =2 341<br />
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'''Pandu 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]]<ref>Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 264, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n295/mode/2up</ref> and then by the [[Baroda and Gujarat States Agency]].<ref>Memoranda On The Indian States 1935, p. 102,<br />
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n111/mode/2up</ref> It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the [[Pandu Mehwas]], petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825.<ref>Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 270,<br />
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n301/mode/2up</ref> The state had a population of 2 341 and an area of 9 sq miles.<ref>. Memoranda On The Indian States 1940, p. 24, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35376/page/n33/mode/2up</ref><br />
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==Rulers==<br />
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The state was held by several shareholders (several people sharing the government and revenues of the state).<br />
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In 1922 the 5 shareholders of Pandu were:<ref>The Rewakantha directory, p. 114, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/114/mode/2up</ref><br />
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* Khanjada Akbarkhan Bahadarkhan (b. 1898)<br />
* Khanjada Ranmastakhan Ahmedkha (b. 1878)<br />
* Khanjada Sikdarkha Tajukhan (b. 1893)<br />
* Sardarbibi, widow of Nathukhan Mansurkhan (b. 1862)<br />
* Khanjada Ayubkhan Hamirkhan<br />
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In 1927 the 5 shareholders of Pandu were:<ref>A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), p. 162, https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/161/mode/2up</ref><br />
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* Jabarkhan Nijamkhan (b. ca. 1894)<br />
* Usafkhan Ranmatkhan (b. ca. 1913)<br />
* Sardarbibi, widow of Nathukhan Mansurkhan (b. 1862)<br />
* Sikdarkha Tajukhan¨<br />
* Ayubkhan Hamirkhan<br />
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