Vibhaji Jadeja and Raju Sandhi 
founded Rajkot (the City of Princes) in the year 1610. Rashtriya Shala is said to have cooperated with the Mughal army for which he received some villages as a gift for his services. This bustling city was once the capital of the princely state of Saurashtra and the headquarters of the British Government Headquarters. It became the administration centre of the British after the treaty of 1818 imposed by Colonel Walker on behalf of the East India Company, which finally helped freeze borders between nearly 200 kingdoms. Today it is best known as the town where Mahatma Gandhi spent the early years of his life when his father was a Diwan or Prime Minister to the king of Saurashtra. Mahatma Gandhi is also said to have married Kasturba in Rajkot, although she too, like Gandhi, was born in Porbandar. Gandhi started his famous Rajkot Satyagraha from the Rashtriya Shala in Rajkot.
Travel in Rajkot
Tourism in Rajkot
The First Forty Years of the
Rajkumar College: An account of the origin and progress of The Rajkumar College (Rajkot) was prepared and abridged from the papers of the late Chester Macnaghten, first principal of the college and other sources. Compiled into 7 volumes by Maharaja Bhavsinhji of Bhavnagar, a distinguished alumnus, like his father Takhtsinhji and son, Krishna Kumarsinhji.
Travel in Rajkot
The Watson Museum
exhibits copies of artifacts from Mohenjodaronatural history, 13th century carvings, temple statues, costumes and design of the houses of the local tribal people. The Watson Museum also houses an excellent collection of traditional, archaeological items and coins.
While the museum’s archeology gallery also boasts of artifacts of prehistoric period and the in the archeology gallery, a treasure of sculptures belonging to erstwhile a capital of Jethwa – grace the sculpture gallery.
