Palitana princely state court fee / revenue stamp

 PALITANA                                                                        9  GUN   SALUTE   STATE

Palitana state is formerly Western India States Agency (Kathiawar), merged in Saurashtra. now in Gujarat State. Palitana is a town in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India. It is located 50 km southwest of Bhavnagar city and is a major pilgrimage centre for Jains. It is first of the two vegetarian cities in the world. Area of state was 777 Sq.Km. and population of  the state was 58,000 in 1921, Privy purse of state at the time of accession on 15 Feb.1948  was Rs.1,80,000.

Palitana is associated with Jain legends and history. Ādinātha, the first of the Jain tirthankaras, is said to have meditated on the Shatrunjaya hill, where the Palitana temples were later constructed.

In 1656, Shah Jahan's son Murad Baksh (the then Governor of Gujarat) granted the village of Palitana to the prominent Jain merchant Shantidas Jhaveri. The management of the temples was assigned to the Anandji Kalyanji Trust in 1730.

During the British Raj, Palitana was a princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of the Bombay presidency. Gross revenue, £42,000; tribute jointly to the Gaekwar of Baroda and the Nawab of Junagadh, £700. The capital of the state was the Palitana town (population 12,800). It was ruled by a Gohil Rajput, with the title of Thakore sahib (also spelled Thakor Saheb or Thakur Sahib), enjoying a 9-guns salute, of the Hindu Gohel dynasty, which received a privy purse of 180,000 rupees at the state's accession to independent India on 15 February 1948.

Court  Fee  Stamps :--
Type 5  - issued in 1920-30, Size 81x27mm.,perf.12, Wove paper, Engraved  

 

One Anna, Pale Blue. , Ref. # 51

 

Three Rupees, Reddish Violet , Ref.# 58

 

 Type  8  - issued in 1932-39, Size 74x36 mm., Perf.10, Wove paper.

Two Rupees , Green, Ref. # 87

Type  9  - issued in 1932-39, Type 8 redrawn , Size 74x36 mm., Perf.10, Wove paper.

 
Eight Annas, Green , Ref. # 94 

Type 10   -Used in 1912-30 AD, size of stamps 73x 36mm., Perf. 12, Wove paper, There are 2 sub varieties of this type (A) value in words., (B) Value in Hindi numeral

One Anna, Green, Sub type A,  Ref. # 101 

Type 14   - issued in 1920-45, size of stamps 75x 35mm., perf. 11, Wove paper, Lithograph.

 
One Anna, Light Brown, Ref. # 141 a

 

Ten Rupees , Magenta , Ref. # 150 a

Revenue  Stamp :- 

Type-20  :  - 1914- 23 AD , Size 27 X 33 mm. , Perf. 11, Wove paper.

One Anna , Red , Ref. # 201

Type-21  :  - 1930 , Size 28 X 34 mm. , Perf. 11 ½ , Wove paper.

One Anna , Rose Pink , Ref. # 211

Type-22  :  - 1945 , Size 21 X 24 mm. , Perf. 11, Wove paper.

One Anna , Orange Red , Ref . # 221

General Stamp :-

Type-25  :  -

1942-46 , Size 55 x 43 mm. Printed with Reddish Brown on thick card board . It was used as a revenue stamp as well as a cash coupon as a coin during the period of IInd world war when the nation was facing acute shortage of coins. Palitana state General stamp printed in Gujrati around the portrait of the ruler  in the center in rectangular  shape with plain background . General stamp in Gujrati above the portrait and Palitana state below. . And denomination EK  AANO in Gujrati on reverse with serial number above the denomination in Blue and Black .

One Anna, Ref. # 250