Malerkotla (State)

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Malerkotla
1657-1948
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Capital	Malerkotla
Form of government	Princely state (11 shot salute)
surface	427 km²
population	77,500 (1901)
founding	1657
resolution	August 20, 1948
State religion: Islam Dynasty:
Malerkotla, Patiala , Jind , Nabha and the Ludhiana District in Punjab (1911)

Malerkotla ( Painter Kotla ) was one of the princely states in the Punjab States Agency of British India . Its capital was the place Malerkotla . The princes were Muslim Pashtuns , descended from Shaikh Sadr ad-Dîn Sadr-i Jahan, who married a daughter of Sultan Bahlul Lodi of Delhi in 1454 and was enfeoffed with some villages. They rose further under the Mughals , and Bayezid Khan (1800–57) was appointed Nawab . Malerkotla was a British protectorate from 1809 to 1947 .

In 1901 the principality had an area of ​​427 km² and 77,500 inhabitants. Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan (1947–56) joined the Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) on July 15, 1948, and joined India on August 20, 1948. On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved and PEPSU part of the state of Punjab .

See also

• List of Indian princely states

literature

• Māler Kotla State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 17: Mahbūbābād to Morādābād. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 84-86 .
• George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1875, ( digitized version ).
• 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 .

Web links

Commons : Fürstentum Malerkotla  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Painter Kotla (Princely State) . World of Royalty on iiNet (English)
• Imperial Gazetteer of India . Clarendon Press, Oxford, March 9, 2015. Editions 1908–1931 (Digital editions of Volumes 1–26; English)
• Painter Kotla (Princely State). In: Indian Princely States, Thikanas And Zamindaris. Archived from the original on April 8, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2017 (English). 
• Ben Cahoon: Princely States of India K-Z . World Statesmen.org (English)