MANVADAR NON SALUTE STATE
Manavadar ( Bantva /
Manavadar ) state was formerly Kathiawar Agency : now in Gujarat State , area
of the state was 574 Sq.Km. comprising of 23 Villages and Population of state
was 29,084 in 1931.
The Princely State of Bantva Manavadar was one of the prominent princely
states of India that were administered by native rulers or Indian princes under the indirect
control of the British Government of India.
The Bantva Manavadar State was amongst main state which was established in 1760
on the Kathiawar peninsula
in Gujarat,
India. During the rule of the British Empire in India,
the region was appointed as one of the princely states of India under the indirect
rule of the British East India Company. The princely state covered
a total area of around 574 sq km and comprised of mainly Muslim villages. The
native ruler, also called as Indian prince by the British, of the
state was given the title of Khan Sahib.
The Princely
State of Bantva Manavadar was under the indirect control of the British Empire in India.
However the native ruler of the state was given autonomous power to administer
the internal issues of the state. Moreover the royal family maintained
harmonious association and alliance with the British administration and
provided support to the British troop as well. The British in return provided
security and protection to the ruler of the state from external forces. After
the nation attained independence and the withdrawal of British Government, the
last ruler of the princely state of Bantva Manavadar, Khan Sahib Ghulam
Moinuddin Khanji, acceded his state to the Dominion of Pakistan on 14 September
1947. This was done simultaneously with the accession of the Junagadh. Later on
22 October 1947, the Indian police forces were sent into Bantva Manavadar and
the former Khan Sahib was detained and placed under house arrest at Songadh.
An administrator was
appointed to conduct the administration and governance of the erstwhile
princely state. During this period, the Government of India held an
unsupervised and unattested plebiscite in the domain. Several participants
voted in favour of merger with the Union of India. On
20 February 1949, the state of Bantva Manavadar was finally amalgamated with
the federated state of Saurashtra. The Khan Sahib of the princely
state of Bantva Manavadar remained imprisoned at Rajkot. After the Liaquat
Nehru Pact of 8 April 1950, the Indian authorities agreed to finally release
him. The last Khan Sahib of Bantva Manavadar then went to Karachi in the year
1951. There he was continued to be officially recognised and granted all the
prerogatives of a royal prince. He died in the year 2003.
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