Mengni

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Mengni is a town and former minor Rajput princely state on Saurashtra peninsula, in Gujarat, western India.

History

Mengni was a Fifth Class princely state, also comprising seven more villages, covering 35 square miles in the Halar prant of Kathiawar. It was ruled by Jadeja Rajput Chieftains.

It had a combined population of 3,354 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 29,847 Rupees (1903-4, mostly from land) and paying a tribute of 3,412 Rupees, to the British.

Sources and external links

  • Imperial Gazetteer, on dsal.uchicago.edu
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Princely states of the Western India States Agency during the British Raj, by colonial (Sub)Agency and (in Kathiawar) by prant
Italics = Thana's, jurisdictions grouping several petty states
Gohelwar prant (Eastern Kathiawar)
Jhalawar prant (Eastern Kathiawar)
Halar prant (Western Kathiawar)
Sorath prant (Western Kathiawar)
Palanpur Agency (Banas Kantha Agency)
Mahi Kantha Agency (Banas Kantha)