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Lakhdhirji Waghji

1876–1957 · 20th century · Also known as Lakhdhirji

Lakhdhirji Waghji was the Thakore Sahib, later Maharaja, of Morvi in Kathiawar from 1922 until the state joined the United State of Saurashtra in 1948. He continued his father Waghji II's development of railways, the port of Navlakhi and local industry, making Morbi a centre of manufacturing, and endowed institutions such as the engineering college in Morbi that bears his name.

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