Katosan State

Katosan is a town and former Princely State in Jotana Taluka of Mehsana district, Gujarat, India.

Katosan was a Fourth Class princely state and taluka, comprising five more villages, covering ten square miles in Mahi Kantha Agency ,[citation needed] ruled by Makwana Koli chieftains who used the title of Thakor.

[3] On 10 July 1943, Katosan ceased to exist, being among the princely states merging under the "Attachment Scheme" into the Gaekwad Baroda State; some petty estates within the Katosan thana had been similarly merged on 1 February 1940.

[citation needed] Rajvi makavana koli thakor Surendrasinhji Kirtisinhji of Katosan state in Jotana taluka died on Sunday at the age of 70 from a heart attack.

Surendrasinhji, the last Rajvi of Katosan State, studied at Rajkumar College, Rajkot.