Eastern States Union
The Eastern States Union came into being after the British Parliament had decided on August 15, 1947, the independence of India and Pakistan , and the Indian princely states had thereby become independent. Most of the princes of the Eastern States Agency merged on August 1, 1947 to form the Eastern States Union. The two largest states Bastar and Mayurbhanj stayed away from the Union. On January 1, 1948, the union was dissolved and the princely states incorporated into the provinces or states of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh .
The states of Gangpur , Bonai , Bamra , Keonjhar , Rairakhol , Sonpur , Athmallik , Pal Lahara , Talcher , Patna , Boudh , Dhenkanal , Hindol , Daspalla , Narsinghpur , Barhamba , Athgarh , Tigiria , Nayagarh , Ranpur and Kalahandi as well as Kharsawan and Kalahandi came to Orissa Seraikela who came to Bihar in May 1948 .
The states of Chang Bhakar , Korea , Surguja , Jashpur , Udaipur , Raigarh , Sarangarh , Kawardha , Khairagarh , Nandgaon and Kanker came to Madhya Pradesh . Most of these areas have belonged to Chhattisgarh State since 2000 .
literature
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Hamburg 2004, DNB 971030472 .
- Imperial Gazetteer of India. 26 volumes. 2nd Edition. Oxford 1908-1931.
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia. 2nd Edition. New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6
Individual evidence
- ^ VP Menon : Integration of the Indian States . Orient Black Swan, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad (Telangana) 2014, ISBN 978-81-250-5451-1 , 7 The Orissa and Chattisgarh States, pp. 138–159 (English, bjplibrary.org [PDF] first edition: 1957).