Gadhka princely state fiscal court fee/revenue stamp

GADHKA                                                                 NON   GUN   SALUTE    STATE

Gadhka is a village and formerly the seat of a Rajput taluka and minor princely state, named after the village, in Western Saurashtra, presently in western India's state Gujarat.

The village is one of many in the modern Rajkot Taluka of Rajkot rural legislative constituency, in Morbi district.

                                  The princely state was created as an offshoot of the Rajput Jadeja dynasty's Rajkot state for Thakur Ranmalji's second son, the first Thakur Saheb, on whose son and successor's childless death it was combined with Ranmaji's third son Akherajji's formerly received estate Makhawad.

                                  Gadkhka State comprised five villages, covering 60 Sq.Km., with a population of 2,392 in 1931.During the British raj, it was a Fifth Class State in Halar prant, under the colonial Western Kathiawar Agency. Its jurisdictional powers were: Criminal, two years rigorous imprisonment and fines up to 2,000Rs, and Civil - to the extent of 5,000 Rs.

 

Revenue  Stamps :--
Type-10 - used in 1944-45, size 29x43mm. Wove paper. , Rough  perf 11.

Two Annas , Red , Ref. # 102