The Siddi (Habshi) sea-state of the Konkan, ruled from an island fortress by admirals of Abyssinian descent who served Ahmadnagar, Bijapur and then the Mughals; alone among the states of western India it never fell to the Marathas, defeating Shivaji, Sambhaji and the Peshwa in turn.
Acceded to India in 1947 and merged into Bombay State on 8 March 1948; its Kathiawar dependency Jafarabad went to Saurashtra.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Janjira State — the shape you scrub through changes in 1489 · 1708 · 1858.
The standard scholarly account of the Habshi/Siddi communities of western India, including the Janjira admirals and their state.
Fallback survey, used here specifically for the Maratha side of the repeated sieges of Janjira; no Janjira-specific English monograph was found in Open Library.