Mengni

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Mengni is a town and former minor Rajput princely state on Saurashtra peninsula, in Gujarat, western India.

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Mengni was a Fifth Class princely state, also comprising seven more villages, covering 35 square miles in the Halar prant of Kathiawar. It was ruled by Jadeja Rajput Chieftains.

It had a combined population of 3,354 in 1901, yielding a state revenue of 29,847 Rupees (1903-4, mostly from land) and paying a tribute of 3,412 Rupees, to the British.

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