Alwar (state)

	Alwar
	1296-1949
flag	coat of arms
Capital	Alwar
Form of government	Princely State (17 rounds salute)
surface	8178 km²
population	860,000 (1941)
founding	1296
resolution	April 7, 1949
	State religion: Hinduism ; Dynasty: Kachwaha (Naruka Lalawat clan)
	Princely state of Alwar on a map from The Imperial Gazetteer of India (1907–1909)
	Alwar - Vijay Mandir Palace

Alwar ( Hindi : अलवर , Alavar ) was one of the princely states of the Rajputs in what is now Rajasthan ( British India ), named after the capital of the same name .

history

The princely state was founded in 1771 by Pratab Singh, the leader of the Naruka clan of the Kachwaha - Rajputs . This was the son of Rao Mohabat Singh of Macheri from the dynasty of the princes of Amber / Jaipur . The Mughal Mughal Shah Alam awarded him the title of Rao Raja in 1791 . Mangal Singh was promoted to Maharaja by the British in 1889 .

Alwar was a British protectorate from 1803 to 1947 and in 1941 had an area of 8178 km² and about 860,000 inhabitants. On March 17, 1948, it joined the Matsayas Union and formally joined India on April 7, 1949 . On May 15, 1949, Alwar became part of Greater Rajasthan ; on November 1, 1956, the princely state was dissolved.

Ruler in Alwar

Pratap Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1775–1791) Rao Raja of Alwar
Bakhtawar Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1791-1815) Rao Raja of Alwar
Bane Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1815-1857) Maharao Raja of Alwar
Sheodan Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1857–1874) Maharao Raja of Alwar
Mangal Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1874-1892) Maharaja of Alwar
Jai Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1892–1937) Maharaja of Alwar
Tej Singh Prabhakar Bahadur (1937–1971) Maharaja of Alwar (titular Maharajah between 1971 and 2009)
Jitendra Pratap Singh Prabhakar Bahadur , Maharajah of Alwar (since 2009)

Others

From 1877 to 1895 Alwar had its own state post, on whose stamps an Indian hunting dagger ( Qatar ) was depicted.

literature

William Barton: The princes of India . With a Chapter on Nepal. Nisbet, London 1934, (Reprinted edition. Cosmo, New Delhi 1983).
Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
Ian Copland: The princes of India in the endgame of empire, 1917-1947 (= Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1997, ISBN 0-521-57179-0 .
George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1875, ( digitized version ).
Paul E. Roberts: India (= A Historical Geography of the British Dominions. Vol. 7, Part. 1-2). 2 volumes (Vol. 1: History to the End of the East India Company. Vol. 2: History under the Government of the Crown. ). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1916-1923, (Reprinted edition: Historical Geography of India. 2 volumes. Printwell, Jaipur 1995).
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia (= Association for Asian Studies. Reference Series. 2). 2nd impression, with additional material. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .

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