Baroda (British India)

Last modified: 2001-01-06 by jonathan dixon
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by Jorge Candeias

• Some facts
• The shade of the flag
• Geography

• Baroda, Western India and Gujarat Agency
• Indian Princely States
• India

21 guns

1931 area 8,164 square miles

1931 population 2,443,000

In my opinion, the shade of saffron in Baroda and Gwalior is the same (as is generally the case in these saffron monocolor flags because of their same origin).
Jaume Ollé, 23 March 1998

Here is an incomplete list of the territories that composed Baroda:

• One exclave placed to the east of Tharad and Radhanpur, bordering these two states plus Idar, the Rajputani state of Palanpur, and two portions of territory that belonged to Bombay. The city of Mahsana is very close, if not inside the exclave.
• Another exclave between Bhavnagar, Junagadh and a territory unlabelled in the map. The city of Amreli seems to have been part of it.
• Another exclave that was placed in the southern tip of the Kathiawar peninsula, between the sea and the state of Junagadh, really close to Diu. No cities found, though.

Baroda was a former Indian state in western India, 8176 square miles; it had four divisions, three in Gujarat (Kadim, Baroda, and Navsari) and one in the Peninsula of Kathiawar (Amreli, with Okhamandal). Once a part of the Mogul Empire; in 18th century its princes belonged to Maratha Confederacy; c. 1721 it secured part of Gujarat; in 19th century subject to British administrative control until 1881; became part of Bombay state 1948 and of Gujarat state 1960. Title of the prince: Gaekwar.
Jarig Bakker, 10 November 1998, and Balaji Ramani, 11 August 2000