High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Limbdi is a city and a municipality in Surendranagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Limbdi was a princely state- entitled to a hereditary salute of 9-guns during and before the British empire, ruled by the Jhala dynasty. After India's independence from British colonial rule in 1947, Limbdi was integrated into the nation with other princely states. It has a current population of about 70,000 people who are employed in diverse professions from agriculture to small businesses. Limbdi has a proud place in women's education. It is home to Lady Wellingdon Girls School, now Municipal school number 3. This school was established in Limbdi on 1 March 1859 when India had hardly any girls schools even in urban areas. Initially "girls only", it is now a co-educational school. Limbdi was considered to be the "KASHI" of Gujarat because lots of temples are located in the city in almost every street & society. Lord Swaminarayan had visited Limbdi several times. And the story of Vaghri's salvation by Lord Swaminarayan has been depicted in the scriptures of Swaminarayan Sect.