Kathiawar

Kathiawar, a peninsula on the west coast of India, lying between the Gulf of Cambay and the Gulf of Cutch; the Brahman and native name for it is Surashtra. Politically, the name Kathiawar Agency (formed in 1822) is given to a collection of 187 states, some independent, some tributary to native princes, and some (105) tributary to the British government in India, which between them embrace the greater part of the Kathiawar Peninsula. Area of agency, 20,559 sq. m.; pop. (1891) 2,752,404. The states of the agency supply one-sixth of the total quantity of cotton exported from Bombay. The resident of the agency lives at Rajkot.