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JUNAGARH, or JUNAGADH

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 555 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JUNAGARH, or JUNAGADH , a native state of India, within the
Gujarat
  division of Bombay, extending inland from the southern
coast
  of the peninsula of Kathiawar. Area, 3284 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 395,428, showing a decrease of 19% in the decade, owing to
famine
 ; estimated
gross
  revenue, 174,000;
tribute
  to the British government and the gaekwar of Baroda, 4200; a considerable sum is also received as
tribute
  from
minor
  states in Kathiawar. The state is traversed by a railway from
Rajkot
 , to the seaport of Verawal. It includes the sacred
mountain
  of Girnar and the ruined temple of Somnath, and also the forest of Gir, the only place in India where the lion survives. Junagarh ranks as a first-class state among the many chiefships of Kathiawar, and its ruler first entered into engagements with the British
in 1807. Nawab Sir Rasul Khanji, K.C.S.I., was born in 1858 and succeeded his brother in 1892.
The modern town of JUNAGARH (34,251), 6o m. by rail S. of
Rajkot
 , is handsomely built and laid out. In November 1897 the foundation-stones of a
hospital
 
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, library and museum were laid, and an arts college has recently been opened.


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