Tourism Junagadh, Travel to Junagadh, Junagadh Travel Guide, Junagadh Tour Packages, Junagadh Hotel » Kutiyana http://www.tourismjunagadh.org tourismjunagadh.org provides Tourism In Junagadh, Junagadh Tourism Guide, Junagadh Travel Tourism Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:38:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Kutiyana in Junagadh http://www.tourismjunagadh.org/2010/02/kutiyana-in-junagadh/ http://www.tourismjunagadh.org/2010/02/kutiyana-in-junagadh/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:36:47 +0000 admin http://www.tourismjunagadh.org/?p=166 Bantva and Kutiyana – presently part of Indian province of Gujrat were the home towns of the big business magnets of the Memon community in the sub-continent before its partition. When Muslim League decided to launch its own English Daily and constituted a Press Fund in 1940, Quaid-e-Azam visited Kathiawar which included Junagadh and Manavadar States to collect money for Press Fund. Bantva was a small town with a population about 20,000 peoples at that time but Quaid-e-Azam not only visited this town but stayed there for three days to collect funds from individual business magnets. It is said that the 90% of Muslim League Press Fund was contributed by Memon community of Kathiawar.
At the time of partition, Bantva was part of the princely state of Manavadar. The rulers of Manavadar were indecisive about joining either of the two newly created dominions. The Muslim residents of Bantva, who mainly belonged to Memon community organized a big public meeting in early September, 1947, demanding accession of Manavadar including Bantva with Pakistan and formed a delegation to meet the rulers of Bantva & Manavadar. The delegation consisting of dignitaries of Memon community met darbars of Bantva & Khan of Manavadar on 9th September, 1947.

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The town is visited by a large number of Muslim pilgrims during Urs, which is held on the 13th, 14th and 15th day of Hijri month of Sabaan, the lamps are burnt not with oil but with the water of the step-well. It is believed that the blessings of Pir Miskinsha are instrumental for this miracle.

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