page_title: Dhandhuka
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dhandhuka / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Ahmedabad district under Bombay Presidency, British India 1877
context_page_description: Dhandhuka is a city and a municipality in the Ahmedabad district in the state of Gujarat, India. Moreover, it is a part of the Bhal region.
context_section_description: Dhandhuka is said to have been founded by, and to take its name from, Thakor Dhana Mer
  (Koli King), or rather Mehd, the second of the thirteen sons of the Sonang Mehd who in early times came into Gujarat from Sind. No specific year is mentioned in Ras Mala by Alexander Kinloch Forbes. Having no son, Dhana Mehd is said to have given the town as a lasting gift to a party of 400 Brahman refugees from the wrath of Ebhal Walo. The villages of erstwhile Chamunda rulers is also located here.
  According to another account, the town is said to be called after Shri Dhandhiu of the Chaulukya dynasty who married the daughter of Mularaja Chaulukya's predecessor. In the twelfth century, Dhandhuka became famous as the birthplace of the great Jain teacher Hemchandra and in his honor, Chaulukya king Kumarapala (1143-1174) raised a temple over his birthplace. Under the Muslims and Marathas, Dhandhuka kept its position as a country town, its fortune is almost always linked with the fortune of Dholka. Along with Dholka, it was ceded to the British in 1802.
  Dhandhuka also represents a Legislative Assembly Constituencies. (Early till 2009 it also represents a parliamentary Constituency)
caption: Dhandhuka in the map of Ahmedabad district under Bombay Presidency, British India 1877
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