Journal of the Gujarat Research Society July 1952

Reconstituted Gujarat The merger of interspersed States of Bombay added more than three times the area to the original territory of Gujarat as compared with the expansion in the boundaries of the other two natural regions of the Bombay State. [...] Most of the important Gujarat rivers such as the Banas the Saraswati and the Sabarmati in the north; the Mahi the Narmada and the Tapti in the South rise from the mountain ranges outside Gujarat. [...] One of the causes that might explain the comparatively low overall increase in population of both the Baroda and other states would be the comparatively severer effects of the epidemics and famines of the nineties of the last century. [...] The more probable reason for the discrepancy appear to be the alteration in the basis of classification and the change in the period and method of enumeration. [...] Land Tenures and Tenancy The picture of the rural economy of Gujarat emerging from the merger of states would be incomplete without the indication of the changes in the organisation of agriculture.