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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Sathamba<br />
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| nickname = <br />
| settlement_type = village<br />
| image_skyline = Sathamba village.jpg<br />
| image_alt = <br />
| image_caption = Vav faliya, Azad Chowk<br />
| pushpin_map = India Gujarat#India<br />
| pushpin_label_position = left<br />
| pushpin_map_alt = <br />
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|23.1691251|N|73.3266163|E|display=inline,title}}<br />
| subdivision_type = Country<br />
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}<br />
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]<br />
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]<br />
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]<br />
| subdivision_name2 = [[Aravali district|Aravali]]<br />
| established_title = <!-- Established --><br />
| established_date = <br />
| founder = <br />
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| unit_pref = Metric<br />
| area_footnotes = <br />
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| area_total_km2 = <br />
| elevation_footnotes = <br />
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| population_total = 15,000<br />
| population_as_of = <br />
| population_rank = <br />
| population_density_km2 = auto<br />
| population_demonym = <br />
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| demographics_type1 = Languages<br />
| demographics1_title1 = Official<br />
| demographics1_info1 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<br />
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]<br />
| utc_offset1 = +5:30<br />
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]<br />
| postal_code = 383340<br />
| area_code_type = Telephone code<br />
| area_code = 02779-28xxxx<br />
| registration_plate =[[List of RTO districts in India#GJ.E2.80.94Gujarat|GJ]]-31<br />
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| blank1_name_sec1 = Nearest city<br />
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Ahmedabad]]<br />
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Sabarkantha district|Sabarkantha]]<br />
| blank3_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency<br />
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Bayad India|Bayad]]<br />
| website = {{URL|gujaratindia.com}} <br />
| footnotes = <br />
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'''Sathamba''' is a town located in [[Aravali district]] of the Indian state of [[Gujarat]] and the seat of a former petty [[princely state]]. It has a population of approximately 15,000. It was ruled by [[Kshatriya]] [[Baria caste|Baria]] [[Kolis]] having [[Thakor]] title.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_r4MAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA423&dq=Sathamba#q=Sathamba|title=Gazetteer|last=State)|first=Bombay (India|date=1880|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JQbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=Sathamba+koli#q=Sathamba%20koli|title=The Imperial Gazetteer of India|last=Hunter|first=Sir William Wilson|date=1887|publisher=Trübner & Company|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Wallace|first=R.|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35698|title=Selections From The Records Of The Bombay Government|date=1856}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBE_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA242&dq=Satoomba+Kolee#q=Satoomba%20Kolee|title=Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government|date=1856|publisher=Government at the Bombay Education Society's Press|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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Sathamba was a princely state during the time of the [[British Raj]]. As such it had a population of 5,360 and an area of {{convert|470|km2|mi2}} in 1892. It then formed part of the [[Mahi Kantha Agency]]. Thakore Saheb Shri Sursinhji Ratansinhji signed the Instrument of Accession to merge the State of Sathamba into the Indian Union on 10 June 1948, to newly independent India, the [[Privy purse in India|Privy Purse]] being fixed at 18,800 Rupees.{{cn|date=January 2019}}<br />
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== Places of interest ==<br />
The village has a stepwell and a memorial stone with an inscription dated to 1269 AD { LAKHA VANZARA NI VAV }<br />
([[Samvat]] 1325).<ref>{{cite book|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUBAAAAYAAJ|year=1880| ref={{sfnref | Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur and Mahi Kantha| 2015}}|publisher=Government Central Press| pages=442}}</ref><br />
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== Economy ==<br />
The major source of income for families is agriculture. There is also work in the quarry & stone crushing businesses surrounding the village, which comprise more than 30 companies. {{As of|2007}}, the previously well-known cotton ginning and pressing factory of the village was struggling as a consequence of a series of annual droughts.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Satamba]], in Maharashtra<br />
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== References == <br />
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{{Princely states of the Mahi Kantha Agency}}<br />
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[[Category:Villages in Aravalli district]]<br />
[[Category:Koli princely states]]</div>->Rlink2