Gondal STATE

08/04/2015

Hello friends
afternoon

06/04/2015

04/04/2015

02/04/2015

Good evening friends

01/04/2015

Navlakha
Palace.Dating back to the 17th century, the
imposingNavlakha Palace and its radiating
architecture are a wonder that promises to
engulf and encapsulate the viewer in its beauty
and grandeur.
With its carefully crafted stone carvings and its
delicate balconies, The Nalvlakha place is the
heaven for any lover of architecture.
Imposed on the river bed, The 30 meter long
palace also houses a rich variety of artifacts in
its museum that display the various gifts, letters
and other pleasantries given to the Sir
Bhagwatsinhi by various notable figures if his era
who gave it to the king in his honor.

29/03/2015

Got this photo from himanshu purohit this photo was published on 25/02/2015 in Divya Bhaskar

28/03/2015

Bhagavatsingh maharaja what a amazing personality........ ^_^

25/03/2015

Sir Bhagvatsingh was educated in the latest
scientific and technological developments,
continuing and in many ways exceeding his
father’s efforts. He immediately worked on
reforming Gondal. He reformed the state
administration, developed its resources, erected
schools, colleges and hospitals, provided free
and compulsory education for both men and
women through university, built technical schools
for engineers and training facilities for labourers.
As well, Bhagvatsingh improved the regional
livestock through modern animal husbandry, built
dams and irrigation networks and introduced
sewage, plumbing, rail systems, telegraphs,
telephone cables and electricity, becoming also a
champion for women’s rights-unprecedented for
the time.
Amazingly, he was so effective as a ruler that
his subjects did not need to pay any taxes
whatsoever, as he succeeded in improving land
revenues and the state income tenfold. He
provided free and compulsory education for the
non-academically minded in the form of training
facilities for engineers, mechanics, carpenters,
joiners, surveyors, painters, and levellers.
Irrigation networks and dams helped boost
agriculture and cultivated wasteland.
Bhagvatsingh took a deep interest in medicine at
an early age, striving his hardest to alleviate
disease and suffering. To do so he enrolled at
first at Rajkumar College, Rajkot[2], followed by
the University of Edinburgh in 1892 and studied
for his degree, graduated as a medical doctor in
1895 and went on to earn his place as Fellow of
the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh-the
only princely ruler ever to do so. In 1894, he
became the President of the Organising
Committee of the 8th International Congress of
Hygiene and Demography at Budapest. Upon
returning to Gondal, he ministered to his subjects
throughout his life, working late into the night
five days a week, and taking a daily tour of
inspection around the capital before finally
retiring to his bed. He later rose to become Vice-
President of the Indian Medical Association.
Not only a scientist, but a devoted scholar as
well, Bhagvatsingh later published the first ever
dictionary of Gujarati and a Gujarati
encyclopedia, the "Bhagavadgomandal." in 1928.