THE HISTORY OF KATHIAWAD Governor of Bombay (afterwards Lord Sydenham) made an extensive tour in the peninsula. In the course of the tour he visited Nawanagar, where he turned the first sod in the construction of the railway to Dwarka, and laid the foundation-stone of the new harbour works. On January 24 he visited Gondal, and at Bhavnagar on January 27 he inaugurated the construction of a railway from Sihor to Palitana, presenting also at a Darbar the Sanad of "Maharaja53 to H.H. Sir Bhavsinhji. He visited Junagadh, where he declared open the Shapur- Bantwa Railway, and laid the foundation-stone of a market. The year A.D. 1911 witnesses the death of two of the most prominent chiefs in Kathiawad. H.H. Sir Ajitsinhji of Dhrangadhra died in February, and H.H. Sir Rasul Khanji of Junagadh died in the following November. The former was succeeded by his son, Ghanshyamsinhji, while an administration under Mr. H. D. Rendall, of the Indian Civil Service, was placed in Junagadh during the minority of the minor chief, Mahabat Khanji, who became Nawab. His Most Gracious Majesty King George V, Emperor of India, accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Mary, visited India in A.D. 1911, and for the Imperial Darbar held at Delhi on December 12 and its attendant functions several Kathiawad chiefs received invitations. These included H.H. Ranjitsinhji of Nawanagar, H.H. Sir Bhavsinhji of Bhavnagar, H.H. Ghanshyamsinhji of Dhrangadhra, H.H. Sir Waghji of Morvi, H.H. Sir Bhag- watsinhji of Gondal, Raj Saheb Amarsinhji of Wankaner, Thakor Saheb Daulatsinhji of Limbdi, and Thakor Saheb Karansinhji of Lakhtar. Darbars were held at each of the Prant headquarters within the province, and in all the principal towns, while proclamations were made in nearly every village. The honours given on the occasion included a Knight Commandership of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire to Raj Saheb Amarsinhji of 262