Nandgaon
Nandgaon | |||||
1833-1948 | |||||
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Capital | Rajnandgaon | ||||
Form of government | Princely State | ||||
surface | 2255 km² | ||||
population | 182,000 (1935) | ||||
founding | 1833 | ||||
resolution | January 1, 1948 | ||||
State religion: Hinduism. Dynasty: Bairagi |
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Nandgaon in The Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||
Postage stamp from Nandgaon (1892) |
Nandgaon was a princely state of British India in what is now the state of Chhattisgarh . Its capital was the place Rajnandgaon . The original manor district was founded by a celibate itinerant preacher (Mahant) at the end of the 18th century and passed on from teacher to student for a long time. In 1865, Nandgaon was recognized by the British as a hereditary princely state. Mahant Balram Das (1883–97) received the personal title Raja Bahadur in 1893 .
1892–94 Nandgaon had a state post with its own postage stamps . In 1935 it had an area of 2255 km² and 182,000 inhabitants.
Nandgaon joined the Eastern States Union in August 1947 . On January 1, 1948, this union was dissolved and Nandgaon was incorporated into Madhya Pradesh and thus India . On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved.
literature
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
- Nāndgaon State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 18: Moram to Nayāgarh. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 356-358 .
- 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 .