Kathiawar

Kathiawar, a bowl-shaped peninsula on the N.W. coast of India, having the Gulf of Cutch on the N. and that of Cambay in the south. Rajkot, the capital, is the seat of the Kathiawar Agency, a collection of 187 states formed in 1822. Of these, 105 are tributaries of the Imperial Government; of the rest some are independent, and some tributaries of native princes. Much cotton is manufactured for export.