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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 94.

94 BHA UNAGAR STATE acquisitions made by Wakhat Singh previous to the settlement of Kathiawar. When Gujarat and Kathiawar were divided between the Peshwd and the Gaikwar, the western and larger portion of the Bhaunagar posses- sions were included in the Gaikwar's share ; while the eastern and smaller portion, including Bhaunagar itself and the original estates of the family in Sihor, fell to the Peshwa, and formed part of the districts of Dhandhuka and Gogha, which the Peshwd ceded to the British Government under the Treaty of Bassein. At the time of the settle- ment of Kathidwdr, therefore, part of the Bhaunagar possessions had already become British territory, while part remained under the Gaikwar. The revenue (jamd) demanded from the British portion was Rs. r r,65o, and that payable to the Gaikwar was fixed at Rs. 74,5oo. But as it was expedient to consolidate in the hands of the British Government the various claims over Bhaunagar, an agree- ment was made with the Thakur's consent for the transfer of the Gaikwar's tribute in Bhaunagar to the British Government, which was accordingly included in the cessions made in 1807 by the Gaikwar for the support of a contingent force. In 1840 the British abolished the mint at Bhaunagar, where copper money had been previously coined. As compensation for this, a sum of'RS. 2,8oo a year was granted to the Thakur. A further sum of Rs. 4,000 was given to him, in considera- tion of his resigning all claims to a share in the land or sea customs of Gogha. The Thdkur also subscribed the usual engagements, exempting from duty vessels putting into his port under stress of weather. After the cession of Dhandhuka and Gogha, the chief of Bhaunagar was tacitly permitted to exercise the same powers as before in the portion of his land which fell within those districts. But in conse- quence of a serious abuse of power, the estates were in 1816 placed under the jurisdiction of the English courts. The Thakur never ceased to complain of this change ; and eventually, after full investiga- tion, an agreement was concluded, by which the Thakur's revenue in his British estates was fixed at Rs.52,000 in perpetuity. In 1866 certain villages in this portion of the State were removed from the jurisdiction of the revenue, civil, and criminal courts of the Bombay Presidency, and transferred to the supervision of the Agent to the Governor in Kathidwar. In 1873 the Bhaunagar State made an agree- ment with the British Government for the construction of a telegraph line between Bhaunagar and Dholera. The Thakur Sahib of Bhaunagar is entitled to a salute of i 1 guns, and was created a K.C.S.I. in 1904. He has received a sanad author- izing adoption, and the succession follows the rule of primogeniture. The population of Bhaunagar at the last four enumerations was