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Varnolmal State
Princely State of British India
1948

Location of Varnolmal
Area 
• 1931
9.065 km2 (3.500 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
684
History
Succeeded by
India

Varnol Mal State (or Varnolmal) 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[1] 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 684 and an area of 3.5 sq miles.[4]

History

The minor princely state, belonging to the Pandu Mehwas division of Rewa Kantha.[5]

In 1901 it comprised also a second village, covering 3 1/2 square miles, with a combined population of 426, yielding 1,094 Rupees state revenue (1903–4, nearly all from land), paying 65 Rupees tribute, to the Gaekwar Baroda State.[5]

Rulers

The state was held by several shareholders.

  • Kalubhai Jesanghbai (b. 1876) fl.1922[6]-fl. 1927 [7]
  • Fakirbhai Parbatsing (b. 1878) fl. 1922[6]-fl. 1927 [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Memoranda On Native State In India 1909, p. 266, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108717/page/n297/mode/2up and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency.
  2. ↑ Memoranda On The Indian States 1935, p. 104, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275347/page/n113/mode/2up?view=theater
  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 1939, p. 26, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35598/page/n35/mode/2up
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 21, page 291 – at Digital South Asia Library". Dsal.uchicago.edu. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Rewakantha directory, p. 122, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/122/mode/2up
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), p. 166, https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/165/mode/2up