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Vadodara (Gujarati: [ʋəˈɽodɾɑ] ⓘ), formerly Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River , 141 km (88 mi) from the state capital of Gandhinagar .
Baroda State was a kingdom within the Maratha Confederacy and later a princely state in present-day Gujarat.It was ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from its formation in 1721 until its accession to the newly formed Dominion of India.
Vadodara district, also known as Baroda district, is situated in the eastern part of the state of Gujarat in western India. The administrative headquarters of the district is the city of Vadodara (Baroda). The district covers an area of 7,794 km 2 and had a population of 4,165,626 as of 2011.
Statue of Sayajirao Gaekwad III in the university campus.. The university has its origins in the Baroda College, established in 1881 by Baroda State.The main building, which houses the Faculty of Arts, was designed by Robert Fellowes Chisholm in Indo-Saracenic architecture style, in a fusion of Indian and Byzantine arches and domes in brick and polychrome stone.
Baroda and Gujarat States Agency was a political agency of British India, managing the relations of the British government of the Bombay Presidency with a collection of princely states. [ 1 ] The political agent , who was also Collector of the British District of the Panchmahal , resided at Baroda (Vadodara).
Vadodara (formerly Baroda) is one of the 26 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies in Gujarat, a state in Western India. This constituency covers 7 out of 10 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Vadodara district and first held elections in 1957 as Baroda Lok Sabha constituency in erstwhile Bombay State (present day Gujarat). [ 1 ]
The Kotambi Stadium or Baroda Cricket Association Stadium (BCA Stadium), also known as the Vadodara International Cricket Stadium, opened on 22 December 2024 through organised three one day international series between India and West Indies women's teams in Vadodara, Gujarat.
Baroda Medical College is a medical educational institution for undergraduate and postgraduate medical studies that comes under the Faculty of Medicine of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. It is located in the Raopura area at Vadodara, India. It is primarily affiliated with Sir Sayajirao General Hospital.