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Kathiawar

American  
[kah-tee-uh-wahr] / ˌkɑ ti əˈwɑr /

noun

  1. a peninsula on the W coast of India.


Kathiawar British  
/ ˌkætɪəˈwɑː /

noun

  1. a large peninsula of W India, in Gujarat between the Gulf of Kutch and the Gulf of Cambay. Area: about 60 690 sq km (23 430 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The leanest, 192 rupees, goes to the Talukdar of Kadodia, lord of a tiny village in the Kathiawar desert.

From Time Magazine Archive

The story which tells how the level plains of Kathiawar were reclaimed from the sea illustrates this.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh

His father, like others of his forebears, was Dewan, or chief administrator, of one of the small native States of Kathiawar.

From India, Old and New by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

Baroda and the Kathiawar states employ their own inspectors.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

Kathiawar and Cutch, Baroda and Rajputana, round Benares and parts of Oude and Madras were the localities particularly infected with the barbarous custom in the first quarter of the century.

From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John

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