BANAS KANTHA ( Non Gun Salute State )
The
designation of Palanpur Agency was changed to Banas Kantha Agency in
1925. Palanpur
State itself was
transferred to the Rajputana Agency in 1933, and the rest of the Banas Kantha Agency
then merged with the Mahi
Kantha Agency to
form the Sabar
Kantha Agency,
subordinate to the Western India States Agency (WISA). On 11 November 1944 the
WISA amalgamated with the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency. After the independence
of India in 1947,
the whole area became part of Bombay State, which in 1960 was divided into the States of Gujarat (inheriting the former WISA states territory) and Maharashtra.
Palanpur
Agency had (in 1908) the political control and supervision of four states
(Palanpur, Radhanpur, Tharad and Wao) and five petty estates, besides 343
non-jurisdictional Talukas and villages grouped under
five thana circles, each assigned to a
Thandar. These were the Deodar, Varahi, Wao, Santalpur and Kankrej thana. Palanpur and Radhanpur ranked as Salute states (i.e. entitled to the high honor of a gun salute to its native princely ruler, further classified by the
number of shots), the other seven as Non-salute states. The area of the Agency
was about 6,393 square miles (1901 estimate), with a population of 467,271
(1901 Census). Headquarters of the Political Agency were at Palanpur town.
Other principal towns were Radhanpur and Deesa, the latter containing a large
British cantonment.
LOCATION
MAP
Court Fee Stamp :-
Type-6 :-Used in 1931 , Size 78 x 36mm., Perf 13 ¾ ,
British India Court Fee series 1913 (George V) overprinted with , “CURRENT ONLY IN BANASKANTHA”, and in
Gujrati below it in black ink.
wow its very rare state of Gujarat
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