Jhalawar (State)

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Jhalawar
1838-1949
Flag of Jhalawar
Jhalawar Coat of Arms
flag coat of arms
Capital Jhalawar
Form of government Princely state (13 shot salute)
surface 2106 km²
population 90,175 (1901)
founding 1838
resolution April 7, 1949
State religion: Hinduism
Dynasty: Jhala
Princely state of Jhalawar on a map from The Imperial Gazetteer of India (1907–1909)
Princely state of Jhalawar on a map from The Imperial Gazetteer of India (1907–1909)
Jhalawar Post postage stamp (1890)
Jhalawar Post postage stamp (1890)

Jhalawar ( Hindi : झालावाड़ , Jhālāvāṛ ) was one of the princely states of the Rajputs in British India in today's Rajasthan , named after the capital of the same name .

The Jhala - Dynasty comes from Halvad in the district of Surendranagar on the peninsula Kathiawar . The princely state was founded in 1838 by Maharajah Rana Madan Singh from parts of the state of Kota . When Maharaj Rana Zalim Singh Bahadur died without an heir in 1896, the British dissolved the princely state, but in 1899 they formed a new, smaller state of Jhalawar. In 1941 this had an area of ​​2106 km² and 120,000 inhabitants. On March 25, 1948 he joined the Union of Rajasthan , on April 7, 1949 it was annexed to India , and on November 1, 1956, the princely state was dissolved.

The state had its own post office with its own stamps from 1887–1900 .

See also

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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