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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)

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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

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 John Morrison

A thin, high Kathiawar mare, with eyes and nostrils aflame, rocketed out of the jam, snorting and wincing as her rider bent her across the road in chase of a shouting man.

From Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Its trade is carried on almost entirely with Bombay, Madras, Kathiawar and Portugal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

I appeared before the Kathiawar courts now 21 years ago in precisely the dress I wear in Champaran.

From Third class in Indian railways by Mahatma Gandhi

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