Rander

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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.

Rander

Town in the Chorasi tdluka of Surat District, Bombay, situated in 21 13' N. and 72 48' E., on the right bank of the Tapti, 2 miles above Surat city. Population (1901), 10,478, including suburb. Rander is supposed to be one of the oldest places in Southern Gujarat. It is said to have been a place of importance about the beginning of the Christian era, when Broach was the chief seat of commerce in Western India, Albiruni (1031) gives Rander (Rahanjhour) and Broach as dual capitals of South Gujaiat. In the early pait of the thhteenth century a colony of Aiab mei chants and sailors is stated to have attacked and expelled the Jains, at that time ruling at Rander, and to have converted their temples into mosques. Under the name of Nayatas, the Rander Arabs traded to distant countries. In 1514 the traveller Barbosa described Rander as a nch and agreeable place of the Moors (Nayatas), possessing very large and fine ships, and trading with Malacca, Bengal, Tawasery (Tennasserim), Pegu, Mar- taban, and Sumatra, m all sorts of spices, drugs, silk, musk, benzoin, and porcelain. In 1530 the Portuguese, after sacking Surat, took Rander. With the growing importance of Surat, Rander declined in prosperity, and, by the close of the sixteenth century, became a port dependent on Surat At present, Bohras of the Sunni sect carry on trade westwards with Mauritius, and eastwards with Rangoon, Moul- mem, Siam, and Smgapoie. By the opening of the Tapti bridge in 1877 Rander was closely connected with Surat city. The municipality, established in 1868, had an average income of about Rs. 20,000 during the decade ending 1901 ; in 1903-4 the income was Rs. 23,000. The town contains a dispensary, an English school with 47 pupils, and 6 vernacular schools, 5 for boys with 517 pupils and one for girls with 95.