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managed by the
Gujarat Railways Company. The company was taken over by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway(BB&CIR) in 1922. An Agreement was signed 30 Apr 1914 between the Secretary of State for India and Killick, Nixon & Company of Bombay with partners Lowther Robert Windham Forest, Sir Henry Edward Eddleston Procter, Thomas William Berkett, Walter Henry Ogston and Harold Percival Hebblethwaite. The Company shall construct, complete and make ready and fit for opening for public traffic throughout on a route to be selected and determined by the Secretary of State, a railway, from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Nadiad to Kapadvanj; and a railway from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Station at Godhra to Lunawada. This Line was closed in 2002 following The Godhra Train Incident which killed 59 people.
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Col. HH Maharaja Sri
Virbhadrasinhji Ranjitsinjhi 1929/1986, born 8 June 1910 in Lunawada, invested with full ruling powers on 2 October 1930, Member of the Chamber of Princes, married Maharajkumari Manher Kunwari , daughter of Capt. HH Maharana Raj Saheb Shri Sir Amarsinhji Banesinhji (Gangubha) of
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The Godhra-Lunawada
Railway was a 2 ft 6in/762 mm narrow gauge(NG) line, opened in 1912 and reached Lunawada in 1914. The railway length of 49 kilometres (30 mi) and was served from the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CIR) station Godhra. The railway was owned and
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The last ruler of
Lunawada was Maharaja Vir Bhadra Singh. The best known historical place near Lunawada is Kaleshwari where there are Pandav chori, foot prints of Bhima, ancient water kund (small bodies of water sometimes sanctified), several vaavs (large wells with accessible steps to the water
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in 1505, and a disturbance of some sort occurred in 1545. A paper dating to 1586 indicates the territorial extent of
Lunavada State at the time: it still included Virpur and its dependent villages, which later came under
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viceroy of
Gujarat. Throughout the 1700s, Lunavada State lost territory to the neighbour Balasinor State, but it gained new lands in the south due to the decline of the Godhra chiefs and the Solanki thakurs.
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noted that the story of the ascetic and the hare was a common founding legend for cities. He suggested that, instead, the name
Lunavada was in honor of Bhim Singh's relative Lavanprasad, the ruler of
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Lunawada is the administrative headquarters of the
Mahisagar district and one of the most developing towns of central Gujarat. Lunawada was formally a Taluka, administrative subdivision, in the
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to become king of
Lunavada. One of his descendants, Nar Singh, laid the foundation of the historical Lunavada town wall in 1718; four years later, in 1722, he paid a tribute of 80,000
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Nicholas, Spengler William.f. The Standard Guide to South Asian Coins and Paper Money since 1556 AD, Krause Publications Wisconsin USA 1981
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crossing his path. The ascetic told him that he was to found a city on that spot. Bhim Singh did as he was told and saw the hare at a place now marked by the
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Around 1600, the direct line descended from Bhim Singh died out, and a collateral relative named Kumbho Rano was brought from the village of
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Bhim Singh's direct descendants continued to rule Lunavada until around 1600. The first half of the 1500s apparently saw conflicts with the
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that predated the town's existence by around 200 years, having been founded in 1225. The state's rulers claimed descent from the Solanki or
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of Virpur. On a hunting trip across the Mahi river, Bhim Singh ended up lost and separated from his companions. He came across an
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Maharana of high lineage. The 1901 census records that the population had a decrease of 28% in the previous decade, due to
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