This palace, now a college, built in the neo-classical idiom was built by the Gohil king of Bhavnagar as part of his daughter's dowry, when she was married to the Jethwa prince of Porbandar in 1902. The Jethwas-who initially ruled over much of northern and middle Saurashtra-were subsequently forced, by the Jadejas of Jamnagar and the Nawabs of Junagarh, to give up much of their substantial land holdings.