Jawhar

Jawhar was a hill state in the northern Konkan, ruled by the Mukne family. The house began with the Koli chief Jayaba Mukne, who seized Jawhar fort in 1306.

His son Dulbarrao built a domain of twenty-two forts. In 1343 Delhi's Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq recognised him as hereditary raja and named him Nim Shah. Jawhar's rajas joined Shivaji's sack of Surat in 1664, but Maratha encroachments reduced the state to a small hill principality by 1782; it later survived under British overlordship.