Bamra
| Bamra | |||||
| 1545-1948 | |||||
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| Capital | Debagarh | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State | ||||
| surface | 5149 km² | ||||
| population | 151,000 (1935) | ||||
| founding | 1545 | ||||
| resolution | January 1, 1948 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Gangabasi |
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Bamra was a princely state of British India in what is now the state of Odisha . Its capital was the place Debagarh .
Legend has it that the first Raja of Bamra was a member of the ruling family of Patna , who was stolen from the tribes of the Bhuiyas and Khonds and put on the throne as a child . Bamra was a British protectorate from the beginning of the 19th century until 1947 .
From 1889–94 Bamra had a state post with its own stamps . In 1935 it had an area of 5149 km² and 151,000 inhabitants.
The Raja joined the Eastern States Union in August 1947 . On January 1, 1948, this union was dissolved and Bamra was incorporated into Orissa and India . On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved.
literature
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
- Bāmra. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 6: Argaon to Bardwān. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 343-345 .
- 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 .
