Chuda (Hindi Name चुड़ा) was a minor Hindu Rajput princely state, named after its seat, presently a town of Surendranagar municipality in Gujarat, western India.
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Map of Chuda, Gujarat
History
The princely state was founded in 1707 when Kumar Shri Abhaisinhji Madhavsinhji, a younger brother of Thakore Sahib Shri Arjansinhji Madhavsinhji of Wadhwan, became its first Thakur Shri|Thakur (Thakore) Shri]]. This branch of the Jhala Rajput clan dynasty ruled 14 villages, covering 202 Square Kilometers km². The state had a population of 11,333 in 1921, yielding 160,000Rs of state revenue.
During the British raj, it was a third class state under the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency.
It ceased to exist on 15 February 1948 by accession to newly independent India's Saurashtra state. The privy purse was fixed at 51,250 Rupees. The Rajput line of nominal Thakurs in continued.