Ranpur, Dhandhuka
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.
Ranpur, Dhandhuka
Town in the Dhandhuka taluka of Ahmadabad Dis- trict, Bombay, situated in 22 21' N. and 71 43' E., on the north bank of the Bhadar nvei, at its confluence with the Goma. Population (1901), 6,423. On the raised strip of land between the two nvers is an old fort, partly m ruins. Ranpur was founded about the beginning of the fourteenth century by Ranaji Gohil, a Rajput chief- tain, the ancestor of the Bhaunagar family. Here his father Sekaji had settled, and named the place Sejakpur^ but the son, having strengthened Sejakpur with a foit, called it Ranpur. Some time in the fifteenth centuiy the ruling chief embraced the Muhammadan religion and founded the family of the present Ranpur Molesalams About 1640 Azam Khan built the fort of Shahapui, whose rums still ornament the town In the eighteenth century Ranpur passed to the Gaikwar, and from him to the British in 1802 Ranpui is a station on the Bhavnagar-Gondal Railway. The municipality, established m 1889, had an average income during the decade ending 1901 of about Rs. 6,000. In 1903-4 the income amounted to Rs. 6,800. The town contains a dispensary and three schools, of which one is an English middle school with 33 pupils, and two are vernacular, one for boys and one for girls, attended respectively by 317 and 125 pupils.
