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Mevasa is a town and former princely state on Saurashtra peninsula in Gujarat, western India.

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The minor princely state in Jhalawar prant, ruled by Kathi Chieftains, comprised the town and five other villages. It had a combined population of 619 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 6,796 Rupees (1903-4, mostly from land) and a paying a tribute of 559 Rupees, to the British and Sukhdi State.

See also

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There are two other villages, Mevasa Khadiya and Mevasa Kamribaina, in Junagadh taluka (Sorath prant).

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Princely states of the Western India States Agency during the British Raj, by colonial (Sub)Agency and (in Kathiawar) by prant
Italics = Thana's, jurisdictions grouping several petty states
Gohelwar prant (Eastern Kathiawar)
Jhalawar prant (Eastern Kathiawar)
Halar prant (Western Kathiawar)
Sorath prant (Western Kathiawar)
Palanpur Agency (Banas Kantha Agency)
Mahi Kantha Agency (Banas Kantha)
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