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Wadhwan

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of India, in Kathiawar, Bombay, the capital of a petty state of the same name, and the junction of the Kathiawar railway system with the Bombay and Baroda line, 389 m. N. of Bombay. Pop. (1901) 16,223. It has considerable trade and manufactures. There is a school for girasias or subordinate chiefs. The civil station, under British administration, had a population in 1901 of 11,255. The state of Wadhwan has an area of 236 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 34,851; revenue, X2 5,000. Cotton trade and stone-quarrying are important, and there are manufactures of soap and saddlery.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Wadhwan'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/wadhwan.html. 1910.
 
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