Dabhoi is a town and a municipality in the Vadodara district in the state of Gujarat, India.

[1] The town and its surroundings were under Chavda and later under Chaulukya rulers who built few buildings and temples from the ninth century.

[1] The fortification of it is ascribed to the Chaulukya king of Gujarat, Jayasimha Siddharaja (1093-1143 AD), who made this his frontier fortress.

The information on Dabhoi can be found in prashastis and inscriptions such as Someshwar prashasti, which mentions that the fort surrounding the town was built (1231 CE) during the reign of Vaghela ruler Viradhavala, father of Visaladeva, who made it his frontier fortress.

There are four gates in the town, one in each cardinal direction, having indirect entry, located in the middle of each side of the fort wall.

It is an immense edifice, upwards of a hundred yards long and sixty high, entirely covered with most admirable bas-reliefs of warriors on horseback and in chariots, lions, and elephants.

The fort of Dabhoi is one of the rare surviving examples of Hindu military architecture, based on the shastri traditions described in various Vastu scriptures.

The remaining Narrow Gauge lines existing today at Dabhoi are Dabhoi-Miyagam Karjan-Choranda-Moti Koral/Malsar, Dabhoi-Chandod-Kevadiya (Ekta Nagar), Dabhoi-Samlaya Jn.-Timba Road.

In the latest Railway Budget plan has been made of Gauge Conversion of Dabhoi-Miyagam and Dabhoi-Samalaya Jn.