| Conventional Long Name: | Kingdom of Jhalavad |
| Common Name: | Dasada |
| Subdivision: | Princely State |
| Capital: | |
| Year Start: | 1090 |
| Year End: | 1949 |
| Event End: | Indian independence |
| P1: | Kingdom of Gujarat |
| S1: | India |
| Flag S1: | Flag of India.svg |
| Image Map Caption: | Location of Dhragandhra State in Saurashtra |
| Stat Area1: | 13,800 |
| Stat Year1: | 1090 |
| Today: | India |
| Footnotes: | Princely States of India |
| Native Name: | Dharangadhra State |
| Stat Area2: | 3023 |
| Stat Year2: | 1892 |
| Stat Pop2: | 100,000 |
Kingdom of Jhalavad was a kingdom present in the Kathiawar region of Gujarat. The kingdom came to be known as the Dhrangadhra State after it became a princely state in the nineteenth century. The town of Dhrangadhra served as its capital.[1] It was also known as Halvad-Dhrangadhra State. Halvad once had been the capital of this state.[2] It was ruled by the Jhala clan of Rajputs.[3] [4]
The state was founded as Jhalawad/Zalawad in 1090 by Rajput ruler Harpadeva.[5] The Grandson of Harpaldeva, Durjansal was appointed as Grihadyaksha, Ran-su-ran (chief of nobles) and Mahamandaleshwara of the Chaulukya dynasty, he fought the Battle of Kasahrada on behalf of young Mularaja and defeated the Ghurids led by Muhammad Ghuri.[6] In 1742, Dhrangadhra, a new capital was founded and renamed the state. Among the earlier names were Kuwa and Halwad; the state is still sometimes styled Halwad(-Dhrangadhra).[7]
Under the British Raj, the colonial Eastern Kathiawar Agency was in charge of Dhrangadhra, which was a salute state entitled to a Hereditary salute of 13 guns.The state had a population of 100,000 in 1892 on 3,023 Square Kilometers km2. The privy purse was fixed at 380,000 Rupees when it ceased to exist by accession to recently independent India's western state Saurashtra (now in Gujarat) on 15 February 1948.
The Royal House of Dhrangadhra awards a dynastic order of knighthood called the Order of Jhalavad, in six grades.[8]