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Bet Dwarka
Bet Dwarka or Shankhodhar is an inhabited island at mouth of Gulf of Kutch situated off the coast of Okha, Gujarat, India. The island is measured northwest to southeast in with an average in east-west direction. It is a strip of sand and stone situated north of town of Dwarka.
==History==
Bet Dwarka is considered the part of the ancient city in Indian epic literature Dvārakā found in ''Mahabharata'' and ''Skanda Purana''. Gujarati scholar Umashankar Joshi suggested that ''Antardvipa'' in ''Sabha Parva'' of Mahabharata can be identified as Bet Dwarka as Yadava of Dwarka said to travel to it by boats. It derived its name ''Shankhodhar'' as the island is a large source of conch shells (''Shankh''). Archeological remains found under the sea suggest the existence of settlement during Late Harappan period of Indus Valley Civilization or immediately after it. It can be reliably dated to times of Maurya Empire. It was a part of Okha Mandal or Kushdwip area. Dwarka is mentioned in the copper inscription dated 574 AD of Simhaditya, the minister of Vallabhi under Maitraka. He was the son of Varahdas, the king of Dwarka.〔
The island, along with Okhamandal region, was under Gaekwad of Baroda State. During Indian rebellion of 1857, the Vaghers captured the region in 1857. Later by joint offensive of British, Gaekwad and other princely states troops ousted the rebels and recaptured the region in 1859.
After independence of India in 1947, it was integrated in Saurashtra State. Later Saurashtra merged with Bombay State under state reorganization scheme. When Gujarat was created from bifurcation of Bombay State, Bet Dwarka came under Jamnagar district of Gujarat. Devbhoomi Dwarka district was created from Jamnagar district in 2013 so it became part of it.
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