Derol

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Derol or Dedol is a village in the Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, in western India.

History

Derol was a Sixth Class princely state, including a second village in Mahi Kantha.

It had a combined population of 837 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 1,823 Rupees (1903–1904, mostly from land), paying tributes of 513 Rupees to the Gaikwar Baroda State and 47 Rupees to Idar State.

Geography and transportation

  • The village's small Derol railway station connects it to Kalol, which lies on the main trunk road State Highway-5. It is connected to Godhra, 27 km to the north, and Halol (13 km) and Vadodara (50 km) to the south.
  • Apart from the highway, it is connected to adjacent villages through a network of country roads. Most of the country roads are paved, single-lane and reasonably maintained. A portion of the route between Kalol and Vadodara is a toll road.

See also

External links and sources

History

  • Imperial Gazetteer on DSAL - Mahi Kantha

Footnotes


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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)