Amrapur State (Rewa Kantha)

Amrapur State
Princely State of British India
1948
Location of Amrapur
Area
• 1931	5.18 km2 (2.00 sq mi)
Population
• 1931	407
Succeeded by India

Amrapur State was a minor princely state during the British Raj in what is today Gujarat State India. It was initially administered by the Rewa Kantha Agency ^[1] and then by the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency. ^[2] It was part of the 26 Princely States making up the Pandu Mehwas, petty states placed under British protection between 1812 and 1825. ^[3] The state had a population of 407 and an area of 2 sq miles. ^[4] The capital was the modern village of Amrapur, Jamnagar district. Not to be confused with Amrapur State (Kathiawar).

Rulers

The state was held by several shareholders (several people sharing the government and revenues of the state).

Between at least 1922 ^[5] and 1927 ^[6] the four shareholders of Amrapur were:

• Prabhatsing Sivsing (b. 1876)
• Amarsing Bhulabjai (b. 1886)
• Somabhai Ramsing (b. 1896)
• Abhersing Gabhirbhai (b. 1889)

References

1. Memoranda On Native States In India 1909. Superintendent Government Printing, India. p. 264. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
2. Memoranda On The Indian States 1935. Government of India Press. 1936. p. 98. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
3. Memoranda On Native States In India 1909. Superintendent Government Printing, India. p. 270. Retrieved 25 May 2025.
4. Memoranda On The Indian States 1940, p. 20, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35376/page/n29/mode/2up
5. The Rewakantha directory, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/apz5770.0001.001.umich.edu/page/118/mode/2up
6. A Collection Of Treaties and Sanads Vol - Xiv (1929), p. 156, https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1302/page/155/mode/2up