Banda (state)
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| Form of government | Princely State | ||||
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Banda was a princely state in the Bundelkhand region of British India in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh . Its capital was the place Banda .
In 1790 Ali Bahadur I, an illegitimate son of Peshwa Baji Rao I , made himself Nawab of Banda. His son Shamsher Bahadur (1802-25) had to submit to the British in 1803. Ali Bahadur II. (1850-58) took part in the Sepoy uprising , which is why the British confiscated the land and incorporated it into the United Provinces .
literature
- Bāndā District. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 6: Argaon to Bardwān. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 347-356 .
- 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 .
