Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat - मध्य भारत

status	former state
Capital	Gwalior (in winter) Indore (in summer)
founding	May 28, 1948
Dissolution / merger	November 1, 1956 ( States Reorganization Act : Incorporation into Madhya Pradesh )
surface	120,380 km²
Residents	7.87 million (1950)
Population density	65 inhabitants / km²
languages	Hindi
Location of Madhya Bharat in India (1951)

The major states of Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat ( Hindi मध्य भारत , "Central India") was a union of princely states in central India . In 1951 it had an area of ​​120,378 km² and 7.9 million inhabitants.

history

Madhya Bharat was created in 1948 through the amalgamation of 25 princes who were under the Central India Agency in British India and who have now joined India. The largest of these states were Gwalior , Indore , Dhar , Dewas , Jaora , Ratlam , Barwani , Sitamau , Jhabua , Alirajpur , Rajgarh , Narsinghgarh and Sailana . Gwalior became winter capital, Indore summer capital.

On November 1, 1956, with the States Reorganization Act , the princes lost their role as formal, if powerless, heads of the former princely states and Madhya Bharat was incorporated into the state of Madhya Pradesh .

politics

The last Maharaja of Gwalior George Jivajirao Scindia (1916-1961) was from May 28, 1948 to October 31, 1956 head of state (Rajpramukh) of Madhya Bharat.

The government was headed by the following chief ministers :

1. January 1948 - May 1949: Liladhar Joshi (1907–1995)
2. May 1949 - October 17, 1950: Gopi Krishna Vijayvargiya (1905–1984)
3. October 18, 1950 - March 2, 1952: Takhatmal Jain (1895–1975)
4. March 3, 1952 - April 15, 1955: Mishrilal Gangwal (1902–1981)
5. April 16, 1955 - October 31, 1956: Takhatmal Jain (1895–1975)

In 1951, Madhya Bharat's first and only election to parliament took place. The Congress Party won a three-quarters majority of the constituencies (75 out of 99). The three Hindu nationalist parties Bharatiya Jana Sangh , Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha and Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad together won 26.4% of the vote, which was well above the Indian average. Of the 99 constituencies, 79 were single constituencies and 20 were two-person constituencies. 12 seats and 9 constituencies were reserved for Scheduled Tribes .

Political party	Abbreviation	be right		Seats
		number	%
Indian National Congress	INC	938.918	47.2	75
Bharatiya Jana Sangh	BJS	93,627	9.7	4th
Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad	RRP	143.132	7.2	2
Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha	ABHM	236.824	11.9	11
Socialist party	SPI	145.845	7.3	4th
Independent candidates		258.157	13.0	3
All other		70.907	3.7	0
total		1,987,410	100.0	99

literature

• Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM, Hamburg 2004
• Ian Copland: The princes of India in the endgame of empire 1917-47. Cambridge 1997, ISBN 0-521-57179-0 .
• Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia. 2nd Edition. New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .
• SR Bakshi, OP Ralhan: Madhya Pradesh Through the Ages , Volume 3: Madhya Bharat: Society and Economy. Chapter How Madhya Bharat was formed. in: Studies in Indian History. Sarup & Sons, New Delhi 2007, pp. 69ff . ISBN 81-7625-806-7 .

Web links

• Madhya Bharat at worldstatesmen.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} P. K. Bhattacharyya: Historical Geography of Madhya Pradesh from Early Records Motilal Banarsidass 1977, ISBN 81-208-3394-5 , pp. 53-54. (Google digitized version)
2. ^ The Gazette of India Extraordinary. (PDF) The Government of India, April 17, 1950, accessed on November 6, 2015 (English, digital archive of the Gazette of India issues at http://www.egazette.nic.in/ ). 
3. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed April 17, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence). 
4. ^ Report on the First General Elections in India 1951–52. (PDF) Election Commission of India, Government of India Press, Volume 1, 1955, accessed April 17, 2016 .