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Katosan is a town and formerPrincely State in Jotana Taluka ofMehsana district,Gujarat, India.
Katosan was a Fourth Class princely state andtaluka, comprising five more villages, covering ten square miles inMahi Kantha Agency ,[citation needed] ruled byMakwanaKoli chieftains who used the title ofThakor.[1][2]
It had a combined population of 5,510 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 26,617Rupees (some three quarters from land), paying a tribute of 4,893 Rupees to theGaikwar Baroda State, supplemented by fixed tribute sums for Baroda from individual villages belonging entirely to Katosan state: 430 Rupees from Nadasa, 623 Rupees fromJakasna, 96 Rupees fromAjabpura, 139 Rupees fromGamanpura and 3,580 Rupees fromJotana.[3]
On 10 July 1943, Katosan ceased to exist, being among the princely states merging under the "Attachment Scheme" into the GaekwadBaroda State; some petty estates within the Katosanthana had been similarly merged on 1 February 1940.[4] Thereafter, Baroda became a part of independent India'sBombay State and, still later,Gujarat.[citation needed] Rajvi makavana koli thakor Surendrasinhji Kirtisinhji of Katosan state in Jotana taluka died on Sunday at the age of 70 from a heart attack. He was the last prince of Katosan State. A large number of people attended his funeral on Monday. Surendrasinhji, the last Rajvi of Katosan State, studied at Rajkumar College, Rajkot. Katosan State included 84 villages, including Mehsana. At the time of the kingdom was a state with a salute of four cannons.[5]