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'''Kankrej thana''' or '''Kankrej Estates''' was a former collection of native states in what is now part of [[Banaskantha district]] of [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<br />
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==Description==<br />
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The thana was divided between 34 ''[[talukdar]]s'', or petty estate holders. The most important of these were Thara, Khamboi and Un. Most of the estates were small, often covering not even a single village, but parts of several villages shared with others. There were numerous ''bhayats'' (land alienated to junior branches) of these petty chiefs, but the lands were not actually surveyed and divided; they simply occupied as much as land as they could cultivate. Primogeniture was not observed in any of the estates of Kankrej Thana; rather, ''giras'' were divided up in equal shares among all sons.{{cn|date=April 2019}}<br />
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Kankrej chiefs agreed with British in 1819-20 to become protectorate and came under [[Mahi Kantha Agency]]. It continued part of the Mahi Kantha till, in 1844, on account of its nearness to [[Palanpur]], it was transferred to the Palanpur Superintendency.{{sfn | ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha'' | 2015 |page=332}}<br />
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Kankrej was under [[Palanpur Agency]] of [[Bombay Presidency]],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=785}} which in 1925 became the [[Banas Kantha Agency]]. After [[Independence of India]] in 1947, Bombay Presidency was reorganized in [[Bombay State]]. When [[Gujarat]] state was formed in 1960 from Bombay State, it fell under [[Banaskantha district]] of Gujarat.<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
* {{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=331–332}} {{PD-notice}}<br />
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Radhanpur|volume=22|page=785}}<br />
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