Cambay

Cambay, Kambay or Khambhat was a princely state during the British Raj. The town of Khambat Cambay in present-day Gujarat was its capital. The state was limited in the north by the Kaira region and in the south by the Gulf of Cambay. Cambay was the main state in the Kaira Agency of the Gujarat division of the Bombay Presidency, which converged into the Baroda and Gujarat States Agency in 1937. Cambay was established as a state in 1730 by the penultimate Nawab of the Mughal Empire, Mirza Jafar Mu'min Khan I, the remainder of the Mughal governors of Gujarat, at the season of the dismantling of Mughal run in India.

In 1742 Mirza Jafar Mumin Khan I crushed his brother by marriage Nizam Khan, legislative head of Khambhat, and set up himself in his place. In 1780 Cambay was taken by the British Army, driven by General Goddard Richards, however it was reestablished to the Marathas in 1783. At last it was surrendered to the British by the Peshwa after the Treaty of Bassein in 1803. Cambay turned into a British protectorate in 1817. The state was furnished with a railroad in 1901. Cambay's last ruler marked the promotion to the Indian Union on 10 June 1948.