Vav વાવ | |
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Town | |
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| Coordinates:24°21′41″N71°30′33″E / 24.3614984°N 71.5092326°E /24.3614984; 71.5092326 | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Gujarat |
| District | Vav-Tharad district |
| Government | |
| • Body | Nagar Panchayat |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Gujarati,Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 388575 |
| Vehicle registration | GJ-8 |
| Website | gujaratindia |
Vav is a town and the headquarters of Vav Taluka inVav - Tharad District inGujarat state of India.[1] Vav is the largest taluka of the district.
The Rana, rulers of Vav, came from Sambhar andNadol inRajasthan, and claimed kindred withPrithviraj Chauhan, who was defeated and slain by the Afghans in 1193. After many turns of fortune, Dedhrav, driven out of Nandol, settled at Tharad, then under theChaulukya kings ofAnhilwad Patan kings. According to other views, his son Rana Ratansing, driven out of Nadol, in 1103, settled at Tharad. Rana Punja, the seventh in descent from Dedhrav was killed by the Muslims in battle in 1283. His son Rana Vaja regained his estate, by the influence of his father-in-law the Raval ofJaisalmer, as a grant from the Delhi emperor but lost Tharad. So he chose his new capital, Vav. Vav gained its name from a step-well built by his great-grandfather Rana Mehpalji. It suffered very severely from the 1813 famine. During the British period, the eighteenth descendant, Umedsinh, agreed with the British in 1819-20 and became a protectorate.[2]
Vav State was under thePalanpur Agency ofBombay Presidency, which in 1925 became theBanas Kantha Agency. AfterIndependence of India in 1947, the Bombay Presidency was reorganized inBombay State. WhenGujarat state was formed in 1960 from Bombay State, it fell underBanaskantha district of Gujarat till January 2025, After the NewlyVav-Tharad district was formed and this town transferred into this new Vav-Tharad district.[3]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha. Government Central Press. 1880. pp. 329–331,350–351.