[4] According to a Jain account, the last of the Parmar line became a convert to the Jainism, and resigned his chiefdom to his sister's son, the Chauhan Saregogji Ratansingji of Nadol, an ancestor of the Rana of Vav, in 1275 (Samvat 1331).

[4] Henceforward Tharad was held by Muslim rulers and for several generations a family with the patronymic Multani ruled as proprietors, Jagirdars, and commandants, Thandars.

As civil administrators of an isolated crown holding, they were invested with the title of Diwan which was continued during British period.

In the later monarch's reign, the change of capital from Lahore to Delhi, and his numerous wars, made the Multani family's position very difficult.

In return for their services, the Naik family received the grant of several villages which they held till British period.

[5] After the Muslim conquest of Tharad, the wife of Rana Punjaji, a Sodhi by caste, fled with her infant son to her father's house at Parkar.

Compared with that of the Multani family, the cause of the Vav Rana was popular, and though for fear of drawing on themselves the army of the Patan governor, they dared not attempt to win back Tharad, they slowly spread their rule over many of the smaller holdings, and built up a fairly powerful chiefdom.

Later on Fateh Khan Baloch, one of the chief Gujarat nobles, held Tervada and Radhanpur, ousting the Multani family who sank into obscurity, and hold only the Tharad village of Kothigam by the end of British period.

In the following year, Rana Vajrajji, the head of the Vav house, fearing that Jetmalji might prove a dangerous rival, invited Bahadur Khan of Palanpur to oust him.

Within a few years (about 1740), the district was given either as an estate, jaghirdari, or as a charge, faujdari, to Nawab Kamal-ud-din Khan, till, in 1759, he handed it over to Vaghela Kanji, chief of Morvada, one of the supporters of the Babi family.

About this time (1819), Tharad being much harassed and almost unpeopled by the raids of Khosas and other desert plunderers, the chief Harbhamji approached the British.

In 1820, after the Khosas bad been driven out, the chief entered into an agreement with the British and Gaekwad on 14 February 1821 and became protectorate.

Here he stopped, and, in time, subduing the country round built a temple, calling it in honour of his goddess Nan Devi.

The Central Agriculture Market Yard represents the economic center of the town where farmers can auction their products.