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water was easily available in the region 10 to 15 years ago. Ashvin A. Shah, a US-based engineering consultant who conducted a survey in 1998 on water availability in the region, says, "The presence of 700,000 dugwells in Saurashtra region indicates the presence of extensive groundwater aquifers throughout the region. This means there is one well for fewer than 20 people or one well every 300 metres".
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According to few experts, the name Saurashtra is derived from Saura Rashtra. In Sanskrit, Saura means Sun and Rashtra means country. It means, country of Sun, and there were 12 sun temples in ancient times in this region. Due to continued Islamic invasions, the idols of deities of these temples were
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Saurashtra has been a flourishing region and rich in natural resources since ancient times, while having gone through several droughts especially during the 20th century. Water resources and its related dynamics have influenced the region and its agro-economy to a certain extent. It is found that
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campaign from the late 1990s brought almost a drastic change resulting in raising water tables in Saurashtra. However, in 2019, the region was hit with a severe drought, affecting 20 districts in Gujarat, and water had to be brought in by tanker from the
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Amri Saurashtra went through severe droughts over the years to the extent that people could no longer grow crops, nor did they have drinking water available. There has been in recent times a campaign to take up rain water harvesting.
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The issue of 1877 was the first to include Latin letters; the circular design included the inscription "SORUTH POSTAGE" at the top, and "ONE ANNA OF A RUPEE" (or "FOUR ANNAS...") at the bottom. Some of these were
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readily extended to offer his large and royal empire of Bhavnagar / Gohilwar to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and Bhavnagar became the first in the country to be merged into the union of India.
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alternatively. The Chudasama Rajputs ruled Sorath longer than any others, until the Sorath area came under Muslim rule. Sorath, a Muslim name of Saurashtra, was initially one of ten
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in November 1948. The exercise took up a lot of Shri Vallabhbhai Patel's time to convince the local princes and petty subas (totalling 222 in Saurashtra alone). However, Maharaja
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The Indian province of Saurashtra did not design any of its own stamps, but before adopting the stamps of India, Saurashtra issued a court fee
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of Kathiawar, including the former Junagadh State, were merged to form the state of Saurashtra on 15 February 1948. Initially, it was named
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in 1864. They consisted of three lines of Hindi script in colourless letters on black, and were produced by hand-stamping with
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The Saurashtra region comprises the south western part of modern Gujarat state and the districts included in this region are:
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Sapovadia, Vrajlal K., Saurashtra: A Language, Region, Culture & Community (3 April 2012). Available at SSRN:
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ink. A second issue in 1868 used coloured letters, printed in black or red on several colours of paper.
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Saurashtra peninsula is bound on the south and south-west by the Arabian Sea, on the north-west by the
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Referred to as Saurashtra and as some other names as well over a period of time, since the
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The region is mentioned in the Junagadh Rock inscription dating 150 CE, attributed to
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and the coast of the country of Ariaca, which is the beginning of the Kingdom of
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In earliest foreign mention, Egyptian mathematician, geographer, astrologer
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during the 10th and 12th centuries. There are even claims that a mix of
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ground together and later steamed to form cakes had its origins in
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A set of eight stamps in 1929 included pictures of Junagadh, the
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and of all India. That part of it lying inland and adjoining
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Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions
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stamps by surcharging three stamps of the 1929 issue.
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The first postage stamps of the state were issued for
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referred to this region. From the 9th to 14th century
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Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Káthiáwár. Vol. 8
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to the royal families of ancient South India, as the
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A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages
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Saurashtra region within Gujarat, India
Location of Saurashtra in India
22°18′00″N 70°47′00″E / 22.3000°N 70.7833°E / 22.3000; 70.7833
Gujarat
Gujarati
Time zone
UTC+5:30
IST
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Botad
Rajkot
Jamnagar
Bhavnagar
Morbi
Gir
Junagadh
Porbandar
Veraval
Surendranagar
Kathiawar
Gujarat
Arabian Sea
Gujarat
Rajkot District
state of India

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