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{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Maghval
| native_name =
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| other_name = Megwal<br>Meghwad
| nickname =
| settlement_type = village
| image_skyline =
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| image_caption =
| image_map = Dadra Nagar Haveli Map.svg
| map_caption = Dadra and Nagar Haveli map in grey depicting the Gujarati enclave village of Maghval in cream
| pushpin_map = India Gujarat#India
| pushpin_label_position = right
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Gujarat, India
| coordinates = {{coord|20.21|N|73.02|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Gujarat]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Valsad district]]
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 16
| population_total = 2,678
| population_as_of = 2011
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| population_density_km2 = auto
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 396240
| registration_plate =GJ
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| blank2_name_sec1 = Nearest city
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Silvassa]]
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'''Maghval''', also known as '''Megwal''' and '''Meghwad''', is a village in the [[Kaparada taluka]] of [[Valsad district]] in [[Gujarat]] State, [[India]]. It is a small [[enclave and exclave|counterenclave]] belonging to Gujarat, just south of [[Silvassa]] within [[Nagar Haveli]] which is an enclave in Gujarat and part of the [[India]]n [[union territory]] of [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu]].

In January 2022, the government of India announced plans for the Maghval enclave to become part of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu alongside 3 other villages (which were sometimes isolated from the rest of Gujarat, but not from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, by monsoon floods). This would allow the sale of alcohol in the villages, as alcohol [[Alcohol prohibition in India|is restricted in Gujarat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/4-gujarat-villages-will-no-more-be-dry/articleshow/89004297.cms|title=4 Gujarat villages will no more be dry |website=[[The Times of India]] |date=20 January 2022 |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> This process was later deferred.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-06-14 |title=Merger of four Gujarat villages with Dadra deferred |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/merger-of-four-gujarat-villages-with-dadra-deferred/articleshow/92191058.cms |access-date=2023-10-17 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

==Geography==
Maghval, though under the administrative purview of Gujarat, is surrounded by the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (DNHDD), outside the state boundary and a few kilometres from Silvassa in DNHDD. The village with 2,160 villagers (as of February 2018) has a rich landscape with the [[Daman Ganga River]] cutting through it, leaving a hilly stretch on one side and plains on the other.

==History==
Formerly "Bombay Enclave", Maghval was a British counter-enclave within the [[Portuguese India|Portuguese enclave]] within [[British India]] until independence.<ref>{{cite web|title= Megubaru, Former British territory, India |url=
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SilkRoad-Lake/2917/india/meghval.html| accessdate=2013-10-06|author=Yoshida Ichiro}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/damao_1956.jpg|year=1956| title = Damao (Daman) 1954 (Topographic Map) original scale 1:250,000. |accessdate=2013-10-06| quote= Portion of Navsari, Sheet NF 43-13, Series U502, U.S. Army Map Service compiled in 1954 and printed in 1956 (Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas Libraries)}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[India–Bangladesh enclaves]]
* [[List of enclaves and exclaves]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Villages in Valsad district]]
[[Category:Subnational enclaves and exclaves in India]]

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Maghval - Revision history

Tirucochi at 05:21, 20 February 2026