Bantva-Manavadar was a princely state

Princely state

A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...

 founded in 1760 on the Kathiawar peninsula

Kathiawar

Kathiawar or Kathiawad is a peninsula in western India, which is part of the Saurashtra region on the Arabian Sea coast of Gujarat state. It is bounded on the north by the great wetland of the Rann of Kutch, on the northwest by the Gulf of Kutch, on the west and south by the Arabian Sea, and on...

 in Gujarat, India

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. It had an area of approximately 574 km², and contained 26 primarily Muslim villages. Its ruler held the title of Khan Sahib

Khan (title)

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On 14 September 1947, following the independence of the British Raj

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, the Khan Sahib Ghulam Moinuddin Khanji acceded the state of Manavadar to the Dominion of Pakistan

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. This act was done at the same time as his neighbour, the Nawab of Junagadh. Indian police forces were subsequently sent into Manavadar

Manavadar

Manavadar is a city and a municipality in Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat.-Accession of Manavadar to India:*1733 Manavadar state founded.*1818 British protectorate....

 on 22 October 1947, and the Khan Sahib was placed under house arrest at Songadh

Songadh

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. An administrator was appointed to carry on the governance of the state, during which time the Government of India held an unsupervised and unattested plebiscite in his domain. Participants voted in favour of union with India. The state was merged with the federated state of Saurashtra on 20 February 1949.

The Khan Sahib remained imprisoned at Rajkot until the Indian authorities agreed to release him following the Liaquat Nehru Pact of 8 April 1950. He then left for Karachi

Karachi

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in 1951, where he continued to be officially recognised and granted all the prerogatives of a royal prince, until his death in 2003.