Janjira State

Janjira State जंजिरा रियासत
Princely State of British India In union with Jafrabad (1759 - 1948)
1489–1948 →
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Janjira 1896
History
•	Established	1489
•	Indian independence	1948
Area
•	1931	839 km2(324 sq mi)
Population
•	1931	110,389
	Density	131.6 /km2  (340.8 /sq mi)
Today part of		Maharashtra, India
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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Janjira State was a princely state in India during the British Raj. Its rulers were a Sidi dynasty of African descent and the state was under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.

Janjira State was located on the Konkan coast in the present-day Raigad district of Maharashtra. The state included the towns of Murud and Shrivardhan, as well as the fortified island of Janjira, just off the coastal village of Murud, which was the capital and the residence of the rulers. The state had an area of 839 km², not counting Jafrabad, and a population of 110,389 inhabitants in 1931. Jafrabad, or Jafarabad state was a dependency of the Nawab of Janjira State located 320 km to the NNW.

In 1489 an African trader at the service of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate took over the island of Janjira and established his rule. In the century that followed the rulers put themselves under the overlordship of the Sultanate of Bijapur. During the seventeenth and eighteenth century Janjira successfully resisted the repeated attacks of the Maratha Empire.

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