Raj Mansinghji Zala

                                   Raj Mansinghji Zala

                                                         

 Dhangadhra After the death of Raj Ranmalsinhji Bawa (18 to 19), the ruler of Dhangadhra state, Mansinghji came to the second throne.  Who was also known as Raghunath Singhji.  He was born on the 19th day.  They could not take English education.  But he learned a little bit of Gujarati, Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit, then he also mastered English.  When his father Raj Ranmal Singhji died, he ascended the throne on 17-10-18.  Ascending the throne, he abolished the practice of Bhagbatai to improve the condition of the peasants and replaced it with the practice of Vighoti or ledger.  Keeping in view the health of the people, he started the dispensary in 18 AD, which greatly benefited the people of the state.  He received the Star of India and Sir Ilqab in 1918.  The foundation stone of the hospital was laid by the Assistant Political Agent Captain Station of Jhalawar Province in Dhangadhra on 9-11-17 which was then named "Prince of Wales Hospital".  On 17-11-17, Bairajba (Vrajkunwarba) opened a hospital in the name of his mother in Rajsitapur village.  The foundation stone of Victoria Jubilee Girls' School was laid in 1918.  Mansinghji's jail was praised.  Praising him through the political agent colonel, he said, "I have not seen such a jail in the whole of Kathiawar."  Jubilee Girls High School was opened on 17-9-18.  He gave many kinds of relief to the people during the famine of 19-2 AD.  Relief work was opened.  Earlier in the day, he had calculated how many people were starving in which places.  Then in Halwad, Soldi, Sukhpar, Raj Sitapur, Methan, Ticker, Umarda, Sarla and Dhangadhra.  Relief work was carried out and food was given to the people.  Mansinghji built a stone bridge over the Fallu river at a cost of Rs. 2,08 and named it James Ferguson Bridge.    The population of Dhangadhra city was  in 2001.  Mansinghji gave a lot of prestige to the state and decorated it.  Libraries, dispensaries, schools, inns, roads, bungalows and bridges provide an example of community building.  Also established improvements in the city.  Civil and Bhayati courts were in his state, his appeals  Hajur handled himself in court.  They settled four villages named Merupur, Manpur, Haripur, Mangalpur.  There were a total of 14 villages in his kingdom.  Mansinghji composed Hindi and Gujarati poems.  He came to the throne of Ajit Singhji Bawa, who died in 1908.