Baroda


a former state in W India.
Also called Vadodara. a city in E Gujarat state, in W India: former capital of the state of Baroda.
Historical Examples

After a stay there of nearly a week, he marched, in two days, to Baroda.
Rulers of India: Akbar George Bruce Malleson

We go on to-night to Baroda, where the Guicowar is organising a tiger hunt.
Lord Randolph Churchill Winston Spencer Churchill

Portions of the state are crossed by the Bombay & Baroda and the Rajputana railways.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 Various

Our next move was by rail to Baroda, 248 miles north of Bombay.
Seven Legs Across the Seas Samuel Murray

Baroda, like so many Indian cities, offered a picture of transition, or at least blending of East and West.
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey

The Empress Eugnie, 51 carats, the property of the gaikwar of Baroda.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 Various

The journey to Baroda was commenced on November 18th and finished early on the following morning.
The Life of King Edward VII J. Castell Hopkins

The present style of the ruler is Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 Various

Gouvernail’s personality puzzled Mrs. Baroda, but she liked him.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin

India, north of a line drawn from Calcutta to Baroda, to be ceded to Russia.
The Invasion William Le Queux

noun
a former state of W India, part of Gujarat since 1960
the former name (until 1976) of Vadodara

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