Petlad Town

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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Petlad Town

Head-quarters of the taluka of the same name, Baroda prant, Baroda State, situated in 22 29' N. and 72 50' E., on a broad-gauge line from Anand on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway to Cambay. Population (1901), 15,282. Petlad contains a naib-subah office, a civil court, a jail, Anglo-vernacular and vernacular schools, a dispensary, a library, and numerous dharmsalas and temples. It is administered as a municipality, with an annual grant from the State of Rs. 3,100. Being the centre of a tobacco- producing tract, a prosperous trade is carried on in that product ; and there is in addition a considerable manufacture of cloth, brass and copper pots, and locks.