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Kathiawar

[kah-tee-uh-wahr]

noun

  1. a peninsula on the W coast of India.



Kathiawar

/ 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)

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Today’s recipe is an ancient dish that my ancestors cooked over wooden fires in their village on the Kathiawar peninsula in Gujarat, western India.

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Damji Mavani of the Surat Diamond Association, whose family came from the Kathiawar in 1964, expects Varachha as a whole to survive.

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Most families here are “Kathis” from the Patidar caste, migrants from Gujarat’s Kathiawar peninsula.

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Especially enthusiastic was the ruler of Nawanagar, in the Kathiawar peninsula, Jam Saheb Digvijaysinghji, a member of the Imperial War Council.

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It lies between the peninsula of Kathiawar and that of Cutch, leading into the Runn of Cutch.

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