sher khan's descendent held the posts and ruled over the state for the next two centuries, for a period as tributaries of baroda, and later it came under the suzerainty of the british raj. in 1807 the junagadh state became a british protectorate and the east india company took control of the state by 1818 and the saurashtra area with other princely states of kathiawar peninsula were separately administrated under kathiawar agency by british india.