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Nanamava is a village in the Rajkot district in the state of Gujarat, India. It was inherited by Thakor Shri Mokaji Jadeja from his father, Thakor Shri Kalaji Meramanji Jadeja. The village's population is 300 to 400 people.
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Nanamava is a village in the Rajkot district in the state of Gujarat, India. It was inherited by Thakor Shri Mokaji Jadeja from his father, Thakor Shri Kalaji Meramanji Jadeja. The village's population is 300 to 400 people.
Thakor Shri Meramanji (2nd) (Vikram Samvat 1750-76) was a king of Rajkot, who conquered many villages of the city of Junagadh, which increased the area of his kingdom. Masumkhan, with support from the Badshah of Delhi, conquered the areas of Rajkot and Sardhar from Meramanji in 1776, and changed the name of the kingdom to Masumabad.
The people of Nanamava mainly belong to the Kshatriya, Rajput, or Garasiya castes.
The Jagannathji temple of Nanamava was the first in organizing Lord Jagannath's largest Rath Yatra of Rajkot.
Kathiawar is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about 61,000 km2 (23,500 sq mi) bordering the Arabian Sea. It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat in the east. In the northeast, it is connected to the rest of Gujarat and borders on the low, fertile hinterland of Ahmedabad. It is crossed by two belts of hill country and is drained radially by nine rivers which have little natural flow aside from in monsoon months, thus dams have been built on some of these. Kathiawar ports have been flourishing centres of trade and commerce since at least the 16th century.
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