Bajana

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Bajana

State in the Kathiawar Political Agency, Bombay, lying between 22 58' and 23 io' N. and 71 40' and 71 59' E., with an area of 183 square miles. The population in 1901 was 10,279, residing in twenty-seven villages. The revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 71,000, and 38 square miles were cultivated. Bajana ranks as a fourth-class State in Kathiawar. The Tats or Jats of Bajana originally came from Vanga Bazar in Sind, whence they were driven by one of the rulers in con- sequence of their refusing him a bride from their community, and were forced to seek shelter with the Ponwars in the Mandav hills near Than.

The Jats were employed in the siege of Champaner, and there displayed such prowess that the Sultan bestowed on their leader, Malik Hedoji, the twenty-four villages subject to Bajana. Shortly after this they conquered Mandal from the Jhalas. Malik Isaji next established himself at Valivda and subsequently at Varahi, which he took from Ravmas, while Malik Lakha and Malik Haidar Khan settled respec- tively in Sitapur and Vanod and in Bajana. Varahi and its neigh- bourhood is called Great Jatvar, and Bajana and its neighbourhood Little Jatvar.