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'''Ramas''' is a town and former [[Makwana]] [[Koli people|Koli]] princely state in [[Mahi Kantha Agency|Mahi Kantha]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUBAAAAYAAJ&q=Ramas+State&pg=PT1|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha|date=1880|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSZqDwAAQBAJ&q=Ramas+Koli&pg=PA37|title=Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c. 1090-2016|last=Jhala|first=Jayasinhji|date=2018-07-19|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=9783110601299|language=en}}</ref>
'''Ramas''' is a town and former [[Princely state]]in [[Gujarat]], India.


The village is in [[Bayad Taluka]], in [[Aravalli district]] of [[Gujarat]] state, western [[India]].
The village is in [[Bayad Taluka]], in [[Aravalli district]] of [[Gujarat]] state, [[Western India]].


== History ==
== History ==
Ramas was a Sixth Class princely state and [[taluka]], comprising eight more villages, covering six square miles.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA426|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha|date=1880|publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press|language=en}}</ref> It existed during the [[British Raj]] under the colonial [[Mahi Kantha Agency]].
Ramas was a Sixth Class princely state and [[taluka]], comprising eight more villages, covering six square miles in [[Mahi Kantha]].
 
It had a combined population of 1650 in 1901 and generating a state revenue of 2500 Rupees and paying tributes of 158 Rupees to the [[Gaekwad]] [[Baroda State]].


== Places of interest ==
== Places of interest ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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== External links and sources ==
* [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V17_019.gif Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha]


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Ramas is a town and former Princely statein Gujarat, India.

The village is in Bayad Taluka, in Aravalli district of Gujarat state, Western India.

History[edit | edit source]

Ramas was a Sixth Class princely state and taluka, comprising eight more villages, covering six square miles in Mahi Kantha.

It had a combined population of 1650 in 1901 and generating a state revenue of 2500 Rupees and paying tributes of 158 Rupees to the Gaekwad Baroda State.

Places of interest[edit | edit source]

There is a step-well said to have been built five hundred years ago by the wife of a Nawa of Kapadvanj.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Government Central Press. 1880. p. 439.

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