Coordinates: 28°19′N 76°47′E / 28.32°N 76.78°E / 28.32; 76.78

Pataudi State

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Pataudi State
Princely State
1804–1948
Flag
File:CededConqueredProvincesDelhiTerritory.jpg
Pataudi shown in Delhi Territory, south of Gurgaon, Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908
Area 
• 1901
135 km2 (52 sq mi)
Population 
• 1901
21,933
History 
• Established
1804
1948
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg Maratha Empire
India File:Flag of India.svg
File:Pataudi Palace.jpg
View of Pataudi Palace.

Pataudi State was a small princely state in India, established in 1804 by the East India Company rule in India.

The state formed a part of the Delhi Territory in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. It was under the suzerainty of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 52 square miles and included one town, Pataudi, and 40 villages, ruled by the Pataudi family.

History

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The state of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British East India Company, when Faiz Talab Khan, an Afghan Pashtun warlord of the Barech tribe, who was made the first Nawab, aided them in their battle against the Maratha Empire, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War.[1] The family traces their origin to 16th century India, when their ancestors came from present day Afghanistan to India during the period of the Lodi dynasty.[1] The 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, played cricket for both England and India and captained the latter. His son the last Nawab also captained the Indian cricket team.

At the end of the British Raj and with the political integration of India in 1948, the princely state of Pataudi was absorbed into the new Dominion of India (later Republic of India). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).[2][3]

The former Pataudi Palace was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by Saif Ali Khan, the current patriarch of the Pataudi family.

Rulers

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Rulers bore the title of the Nawab.[4][5]

  • Faiz Talab Khan (1804–1829)
  • Akbar Ali Khan (1829–1862)
  • Mohammad Ali Taqi Khan (1862–1867)
  • Mohammad Mukhtar Husain Khan (1867–1878)
  • Mohammad Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan (1878–1898)
  • Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan (1898–1913)
  • Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (1913–1917)
  • Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan (1917–1948)(1948-1952) (just as titular nawab after merging with India)
  • Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan (1952–2011) Honoree title)
  • Saif Ali Khan (2011 - till now) Honoree title)

Demographics

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Religious groups in Pataudi State (British Punjab province era)
Religious
group 		1881[6][7][8] 1891[9] 1901[10] 1911[11][12] 1921[13] 1931[14] 1941[15]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Hinduism File:Om.svg[a] 14,473 81.09% 15,825 83.28% 18,281 83.35% 16,114 82.45% 15,090 83.38% 15,596 82.64% 17,728 82.38%
Islam File:Star and Crescent.svg 3,286 18.41% 3,057 16.09% 3,549 16.18% 3,338 17.08% 2,898 16.01% 3,168 16.79% 3,655 16.98%
Jainism File:Jain Prateek Chihna.svg 81 0.45% 120 0.63% 103 0.47% 82 0.42% 109 0.6% 105 0.56% 128 0.59%
Christianity File:Christian cross.svg 7 0.04% 0 0% 0 0% 9 0.05% 0 0% 3 0.02% 9 0.04%
Sikhism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0.01% 0 0%
Zoroastrianism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Buddhism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Judaism File:Star of David.svg — — 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Others 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Total population 17,847 100% 19,002 100% 21,933 100% 19,543 100% 18,097 100% 18,873 100% 21,520 100%
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis

References

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  1. ^ a b The Hindu, Sunday, 3 Aug 2003 - Royal vignettes: Pataudi: The Afghan connection
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