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{{Infobox former subdivision<br />
|conventional_long_name = Dhrangadhra<br />
|common_name = Dasada<br />
|nation = [[British India]]<br />
|subdivision = [[Princely State]]<br />
|capital = Dhrangadhra<br />
|era = <br />
|year_start = 1742<br />
|date_start = <br />
|event_start= <br />
|year_end = 1948<br />
|date_end = <br />
|event_end= [[Partition of India|Indian independence]]<br />
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|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg<br />
|image_flag = Drapeau Dhrangadhra.png<br />
|image_coat = Dhrangadhra State CoA.jpg<br />
|image_map = SaurashtraKart.jpg<br />
|image_map_caption = Location of Dhragandhra State in Saurashtra<br />
|stat_area1 =3023<br />
|stat_year1 = 1892<br />
|stat_pop1 = 100,000<br />
|today = [[India]]<br />
|footnotes = [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_A-J.html Princely States of India]<br />
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'''Dhrangadhra State''' was a [[princely state]] during the [[British Raj]]. The town of [[Dhrangadhra]] served as its capital. It was also known as '''Halvad-Dhrangadhra State'''. [[Halvad]] once had been the capital of this state.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yKoWAQAAMAAJ&q=HALVAD+STATE&dq=HALVAD+STATE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Y_-3UvG6BsbOrQeIuIH4AQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw] Surendranagar India. Superintendent of Census Operations, Gujarat - Director, Government Print. and Stationery, Gujarat State, 1964.</ref> In 1735, Dhrangadhra was founded as its new capital.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The state was founded as '''Jhalawad''' in 1090 by rajput ruler Harpal Dev Makwana. The jhala rajput fought several battles against muslim invaders and defend his kingdom most famous battle of jhala rajput was battle of gadarghatta in 1178 jhaleswar raj durjanshalji defeat Mohamad ghuri and accept the surrender of muslim forces .In 1742 Dhrangadhra, a new capital, was founded and the state was renamed after it. Among the earlier names were '''Kuwa''' and '''Halwad'''; the state is still sometimes styled Halwad(-Dhrangadhra).{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}} .<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIEoAAAAYAAJ&q=Nawanagar+Kolis&pg=PA35|title=Statistical Account of Dhrángadhrá: Being the Dhrángadhrá Contribution to the Káthiáwár Portion of the Bombay Gazetteer|last=Watson|first=John Whaley|date=1878|publisher=Education society's Press|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c70MAAAAIAAJ&q=Dhrangadhra+Kolis&pg=PA307|title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ...|last=State)|first=Bombay (India|date=1884|publisher=Government Central Press|language=en}}</ref><br />
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Under the British Raj, the colonial [[Eastern Kathiawar Agency]] was in charge of Dhrangadhra, which was a [[salute state]] entitled to a Hereditary salute of 13-guns.<br />
The state had a population of 100,000 in 1892 on 3,023 Square Kilometers km<sup>2</sup>. The [[Privy purse in India|privy purse]] was fixed at 380,000 Rupees when it ceased to exist by accession to recently independent India's western state [[Saurashtra (state)|Saurashtra]] (now in [[Gujarat]]) on 15 February 1948.{{Citation needed|date=August 2019}}<br />
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== Rulers ==<br />
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=== Raj Sahibs of Dhrangadhra ===<br />
[[File:H.H. Man Singh, Raja of Dhrangadhra.jpg|thumb|H.H. Man Singh, Raja of Dhrangadhra, {{circa|1870s}}]]<br />
* Raisinhji II Pratapsinhji,<br />
* Gajsinhji II Raisinhji, Raj Sahib of Dhrangadhra 1744?45 - death 1782,<br />
* Jashwantsinhji II Gajsinhji, born 17.. firstborn of the above, 38th Raja 1782 - death 1801;<br />
* Raniji Jijibai Kunverba - 1758 - 1782<br />
* Raisinhji III Jashwantsinhji, born 1761 son of the above, 39th Raja 1801 - death 1804<br />
* Amarsinhji II Raisinhji, born 1782 firstborn of the above, 40th Raj Sahib 1804 - death 9 April 1843<br />
* Ranmalsinhji Amarsinhji, Raj Sahib 9 April 1843 – death 16 October 1869,<br />
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* Mansinhji II Ranmalsinhji, born 1837, Raja 16 Oct 1869 - 2 Dec 1900 (from 1 Jan 1877)<br />
* 2 Dec 1900 - 8 Feb 1911 Ajitsinhji Jashwantsinhji,<br />
* 8 Feb 1911 - 1 Jan 1918 Ganshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji (b. 1889 - d. 1942)<br />
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=== Maharaja Shri Raj Sahibs of Dhrangadhra ===<br />
* 1 Jan 1918 - 4 Feb 1942 Sir Ganshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji (s.a.)<br />
* 4 Feb 1942 – 15 August 1947 Mayurdhwajsinhji [[Meghrajji III]] (b. 1923 - d. 2010)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rulers.org/indstat1.html|title=Indian states before 1947 A-J|website=rulers.org|access-date=2019-08-17}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Jhalawar State]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Salute states}}<br />
{{Princely states of the Western India States Agency}}<br />
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[[Category:Princely states of Gujarat]]<br />
[[Category:Rajput princely states]]<br />
[[Category:Kathiawar Agency]]<br />
[[Category:Surendranagar district]]<br />
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