mohammad sher khan babi, a babi khel pathan who owed allegiance to the mughal governor of gujarat subah, founded the state of junagadh. it declared independence in 1730 after the marathas gaikwad invasion. muhammad sher khan babi, was the founder of the babi dynasty of junagadh state dynasty. his descendants, the babi nawabs of junagadh, took large territories in southern saurashtra and ruled over the state for the next two centuries. first they were a tributary state of marathas. later they were under the rule of the british raj.