Kishangarh (State)
| Kishangarh | |||||
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| Capital | Kishangarh | ||||
| Form of government | Princely state (15 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 2199 km² | ||||
| population | 100,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | 1611 | ||||
| resolution | April 7, 1949 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Rathore |
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Kishangarh ( Hindi : किशानगढ़ , Kiśāngaṛh ) was one of the princely states of the Rajputs in today's Rajasthan . Its capital was the place Kishangarh .
The Principality of Rathore - Dynasty was in 1611 by Raja Kishan Singh, a son of the Maharaja Udai Sing of Marwar / Jodhpur founded. Raja Raj Singh (1706-1748) accepted the Maharaja title. The British approved a salute of 15 rounds. Kishangarh was a British protectorate from 1818 to 1947 and in 1941 had an area of 2199 km² and 100,000 inhabitants. On March 25, 1948, the accession to the Union of Rajasthan followed , on April 7, 1949, the annexation to India , on November 1, 1956, the dissolution of the princely state.
The state had been awarded the coin rack from ancient times, but this was not used during the colonial era. Kishangarh had its own state post office with its own stamps from 1899 to 1950 .
See also
literature
- William Barton: The princes of India. With a Chapter on Nepal. Nisbet, London 1934, (Reprinted editionals: The Princes of India and Nepal. Pointer Publishing, Jaipur 1997, ISBN 81-7132-150-X ).
- 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 .
