Ramas_State

Ramas State

Ramas State

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Ramas is a town and former Makwana Koli princely state in Mahi Kantha.[1][2]

The village is in Bayad Taluka, in Aravalli district of Gujarat state, western India.

History

Ramas was a Sixth Class princely state and taluka, comprising eight more villages, covering six square miles.[3] It existed during the British Raj under the colonial Mahi Kantha Agency.

Places of interest

There is a step-well said to have been built five hundred years ago by the wife of a Nawa of Kapadvanj.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Printed at the Government Central Press. 1880.
  2. [2]
    Jhala, Jayasinhji (19 July 2018). Genealogy, Archive, Image: Interpreting Dynastic History in Western India, c. 1090-2016. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 9783110601299.
  3. [3]
    Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Printed at the Government Central Press. 1880.
  4. [4]
    Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Government Central Press. 1880. p. 439.
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