Raja Mansinghji Zala

                        Raja 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 bhagbatainam to improve the condition of the peasants and replaced it with the practice of disintegration or ledger practice.  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 (Vrajakunwarba) 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.  After that relief works were carried out in Halwad, Soldi, Sukhpar, Raj Sitapur, Methan, Ticker, Umarda, Sarla and Dhangadhra and food grains were given to the people.  Mansinghji built a stone bridge over the Fallu River at a cost of Rs 5,000 and named it James Ferguson Bridge.  Mansinghji gave a lot of prestige to the state and decorated it.  Libraries, hospitals, schools, inns, roads, bungalows and bridges provided an example of community building.  Also established improvements in the city.  The Diwani and Bhayati courts were in his state, handling his appeals in the present court itself.  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 18 AD.