History of Saurashtra:

After India’s independence in 1947, 217 princely states of Kathiawar, including the former Junagadh State, were merged to form the state of Saurashtra on 15 February 1948.  The exercise took up a lot of Shri Vallabh bhai Patel’s time to convince the local princes and petty subas (totalling 222 in Saurashtra alone). However, Maharaja Krishnakumar Sinhji of Bhavnagar State readily extended to offer his large and royal empire of Bhavnagar / Gohilwar to Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, and Bhavnagar became the first in the country to be merged into the union of India. On 1st November 1956, Saurashtra was merged into Bombay state. In 1960, Bombay state was divided along linguistic lines into the new states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The territory of Saurashtra, including Junagadh and all of Sorath, became part of the state of Gujarat.

Travelogue:

Day 3 We started early morning to finally reach Saurashtra region of Gujarat.Its again a long and full day travel to reach Porbandar from Vapi. We reached around 8 p.m. , had dinner and retired for the day .

Continue reading the details of my road trip to Gujarat – Porbandar in my blog below.

http://thelazytravel.com/road-trip-to-gujarat-porbandar/