Datia State
| Datia State | |||||||
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| Princely state of British India | |||||||
| 1626–1950 | |||||||
Coat of arms
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| File:Datia-Samthar map.jpg Datia State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
• 1901 | 5,500 km2 (2,100 sq mi) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
• 1901 | 53,759 | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1626 | ||||||
| 1950 | |||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||
Datia State was a princely state in subsidiary alliance with British India.[1]
The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand Agency of Central India. It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near Gwalior, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon the United Provinces.[2]
History
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(Reigned 1762-1801
Datia had formerly been a state in the Bundelkhand region founded in 1626. The ruling family were Rajputs of the Bundela clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of Orchha.[2]
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After India's independence in 1947, the Maharaja of Datia acceded unto the Dominion of India; it later merged with the Union of India. Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state of Madhya Pradesh within the Union of India.
Rulers
[edit | edit source]Raos
[edit | edit source]The following rulers carried the title "Rao":
- 1626 - 1656: Rao Bhagwan singh
- 1656 - 1683: Rao Subha Karan singh
- 1683 - 1706: Rao Dalpat singh
- 1706 – 1733: Rao Ramchandra Singh
- 1733 – 1762: Rao Indrajit Singh
- 1762 – 1801: Rao Shatrujit Singh
Rajas
[edit | edit source]The following rulers carried the title "Raja":
- 1801 – 1839: Raja Parichhat Singh
- 1839 – 20 Nov 1857: Bijai Singh
- 1857 – 1865: Bhavani Singh (b. 1846 – d. 1907)
Maharajas
[edit | edit source]The following rulers carried the title "Maharaja Sir Lokendra".[3] The title came into effect from the year 1877:
- 1865 – Jul 1907: Bhavani Singh Judeo Bahadur (s.a.)
- 5 August 1907 – 15 August 1947: Govind Singh Judeo Bahadur G.C.I.E. K.C.S.I. (b. 1886 – d. 1951)
Heads of the family in the Republic Of India
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- 1947 – 1951: Govind Singh Judeo
- 1951 – 1978: Balbhadra Singh Judeo
- 1978 – 2006: Kishan Singh Judeo
- 2006 – 2020: Rajendra Singh Judeo
- 2020 – present: Arunaditya Singh Judeo
Postal/Philatelic Information
[edit | edit source]From 1893, there were primitive stamps bearing both the names 'DUTTIA STATE' and 'DATIA STATE'. The first issue is among the rarest of all Indian princely state stamps. A total of 29 series of stamps were issued until 1920. From 1921 only Indian Stamps were valid.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India
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- ^ States before 1947
- ^ Andreas Birken: Philatelic Atlas of British India, Hamburg 2004
External links
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