http://www.tourismrajkot.org Tourismrajkot.org provides Tourism In Rajkot, Rajkot Tourism Guide, Rajkot Travel Tourism Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.tourismrajkot.org/2010/01/tourism-in-rajkot-2/ http://www.tourismrajkot.org/2010/01/tourism-in-rajkot-2/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:47:08 +0000 admin http://www.tourismrajkot.org/?p=90 Founded in 1612 by Thakur Saheb Vibhaji Ajoji Jadeja of Jadeja clan. Vibhaji was grandson of Jam Sataji of Nawanagar, present day Jamnagar. During British Rule, it was a regional headquarter (Residency).
It has been seat of Jadeja Clan (Rajkot Branch) since then.
Mahatma Gandhi, great Indian Leader, Father of the Nation and a thinker who is adored in India, spent his early years in Rajkot when his father was a Diwan to one of the Saurastra Nawab, and the house where Gandhi lived is now a museum named Kaba Gandhi No Delo. He went to school in here (Alfred High School, now known as Mahatma Gandhi High School).

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Kaba Gandhi No Delo is the house where Mahatma Gandhi grew up. It now holds a permanent exhibition of Gandhian items. It is within the old city on Ghee Kanta Road . ]]> http://www.tourismrajkot.org/2009/12/kaba-gandhi-no-delo/feed/ 0