page_title: Lathi, Gujarat
section_title: History of Lathi State
hierarchical_section_title: Lathi, Gujarat / History of Lathi State
caption_attribution_description: English: Gujarati poet "Sursinhji Gohil "Kalapi" who was also royal of princely state, Lathi during British India. He died in 1900 so image must be in public domain.
context_page_description: Lathi is a town with municipality in Amreli district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Famously known by Bhagvanji Jagjivan sharma after Kavi kalapi.
context_section_description: The rulers belonged to the Guhilot/Gahlot  dynasty. The ancestor of the family was Sejakji Gohil, founding Thakore saheb of Sejakpur.(governor, commanding officer of King Kumarpal's army and right-hand man of the Solankis, a branch of the Chalukyas. Sejakji befriended Ra Mahipal, Chudasama  King of Saurashtra, whose capital was Junagarh, and married his daughter Valumkunverba (Amarkunvari) to Khengar (Kawat), the heir apparent (Jayamal) of Saurashtra. Sejakji received Shahpur along with 24 villages in jagir, in the midst of which he founded a capital in 1250, naming it Sejakpur after himself. He added 40 villages by force of arms, and died in 1254.) His fourth son, Thakore Saheb Sarangji, founded the predecessor state of Arthila and his descendants ruled there for four generations till Mandalika III of Junagadh conquered and sacked Arthila and slew Thakore Saheb Dudoji, the then ruling chieftain. The Gohils of Arthila then withdrew to Lathi which they held till the merger of the State in 1948. Lathi ranks as a Fourth Class state in Kathiawar. The Chief maintains a military force of 12 cavalry, 25 infantry and 10 guns (as of 1892).
caption: Sursinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil "Kalapi"
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