JANJIRA, a native state of India (Kolaba agency), in the Konkan division of Bombay, situated along the coast among the spurs of the Western Ghats, 4o m. S. of Bombay city. Area, sq. m. Pop. (1931) 98,296. There is a small military force; no tribute. The chief, whose title is nawab sahib, is by descent a Sidi or Abyssinian Mohammedan; and his ancestors were for many generations admirals of the Mohammedan rulers of the Deccan. The nawab being a minor, the state was under British administration in 1927. The state, popularly known as Habsan
( =Abyssinian), did not come under direct subordination to the British until 187o. It supplies firewood to Bombay, with which it is in regular communication by steamer. The capital is Murad: the name Janjira, apart from the state, is confined to an island fort.
The nawab of Janjira is also chief of the state of JAFARABAD (q.v.).