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Encyclopedia Britannica



MAHI KANTHA

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 396 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
MAHI KANTHA , a political agency or collection of native states in India, within the
Gujarat
  division of Bombay. Over half the territory is covered by the native state of Idar. There are eleven other chiefships, and a large number of estates belonging to Rajput or Koli thakurs, formerly feudatories of
Baroda
 . Several of the states are under British administration.
Total
  area, 3125 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 361,545, showing a decrease of 38 %in the decade, due to
famine
 ; estimated revenue, 76,000;
tribute
  (mostly to the gaekwar of
Baroda
 ), 9000. Many of the inhabitants belong to the wild tribes of
Bhils
  and
Kolis
 . In 1897 a metre-gauge railway was opened from Ahmedabad through Parantij to Ahmednagar. At Sadra is the Scott College for the education of the sons of chiefs on the lines of an
English
  public school. There are also Anglo-vernacular schools at Sadra, Idar and Mansa. The
famine
  of 18991900 was severely
felt
  in this
tract
 .


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