It was a 9 gun salute state belonging to the Kathiawar Agency of the Bombay Presidency.

[1] Its capital was in the town of Dhrol, located in the historical Halar region of Kathiawar.

The royal family belonged to the Jadeja clan of Rajputs who are the descendants of Samma tribe of Sindh .

The population of the state was decimated by the Indian famine of 1899–1900, from 27,007 in 1891 it was reduced to 21,906 in the 1901 census.

The last ruler of Dhrol State, Thakur Sahib Chandrasinhji Dipsinhji, signed the accession to the Indian Union on 15 February 1948.