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- ↑ Tputs of Saurashtra by Virbhadra Singhji Sangam Books
- ↑ Ranasan (Princely State)
- ↑ Wadagam (Princely State)
- ↑ The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon"