Sudamda-Dhandalpur

Sudamda
सुदामडा़
Village
Motto: el Arjunsinhji
Country  India
State Gujarat
Region Saurashtra
District Surendranagar
Taluka Sayla
Government
  Type Gram Panchayat
  Body Sudamda Gram Panchayat
Elevation 108 m (354 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 8,286
Languages
  Official Gujarati, Sanskrit, English, Hindi
  Spoken Gujarati
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Postal Index Number 363 440
Telephone code +91 02755
Literacy 59.19% (2011)[1]
Driving side Left

Sudamda-Dhandalpur is a pair of villages and former (joint) princely state on Saurashtra peninsula, in Gujarat state, western India.

Both villages (Sudamda and Dhandalpur) are in Sayla Taluka, in Surendranagar district.

History

Sudamda-Dhandalpur was a minor princely state of Jhalawar prant, which during the British raj was handled by the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency.

It also comprised twenty five other villages and was ruled by a Kathi Chieftain. It had a combined population in 1901 of 5,359, yielding a state revenue of 24,746 Rupees (1903-4, mostly from land), paying a tribute of 3,124 Rupees, to the British and the Junagadh State.

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