Samla is a village and former Rajput princely state on Saurashtra peninsula, in Gujarat state, western India.

History

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Samla was one of the many petty princely states of Jhalawar prant, which during the British Raj] was handled by the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency.

It comprised one other village and was ruled by a Jhala Rajput Chieftain. It had a population in 1901 of 961, yielding a state revenue of 8,000 Rupees (1903-4, solely from land), paying a tribute of 1,063 Rupees, to the British and Junagadh State.

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