GONDAL, a town and native State of India, in the western Indian States agency of Bombay, in the centre of the peninsula of Kathiawar. The area of the State is 1,024 sq.m.; pop. (1931) 205,846. The tribute is I7,000. Grain and cotton are the chief products, and cotton and wool stuffs and gold embroidery are made. The chief, whose title is Thakur Sahib, is a Jadeja Rajput. The State has long had progressive administration and compul sory female education has recently been introduced. It is tra versed by a railway connecting it with Bhanagar, Rajkot and the sea-board. The town of Gondal, the state capital and residence of the chief, is 23 m. by rail S. of Rajkot; pop. It contains a fine college, an orphanage, a high school for girls, and an asylum.