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Dasada State
Origins
Dasada lay on the southern edge of the Little Rann of Kutch in the Jhalawad region of northern Kathiawar. Its rulers, a Muslim family of Malik descent, held the estate from around 1600, though its founding is known mainly from local tradition.
Rule and society
The ruler governed a dry, thinly settled territory of grazing land and cotton villages bordering the salt flats. The state paid tribute to the Gaekwads of Baroda and, after 1807, came under British supervision in the Kathiawar Agency. Few further details are recorded.
Decline and legacy
Dasada merged into the United State of Saurashtra in 1948 and became part of Gujarat in 1960, in present Surendranagar district.
Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.
Lineage
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- Dasada State was a protectorate of Company rule in India1807 CE – 1858 CE
- Dasada State was a protectorate of British Raj1858 CE – 1947 CE
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