Raigarh (State)
| Raigarh | |||||
| 1625-1948 | |||||
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| Capital | Raigarh | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State | ||||
| surface | 3849 km² | ||||
| population | 129,000 (1892) | ||||
| founding | 1625 | ||||
| resolution | January 1, 1948 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Raj Gond |
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Raigarh was a princely state of British India on the edge of the Chota-Nagpur plateau in what is now the state of Chhattisgarh . Its capital was the place Raigarh .
Raigarh was founded in 1625 as a fiefdom of Sambalpur . After its conquest by the Marathas , the Raja sought the protection of the British East India Company around 1800 . In 1911 Raigarh was elevated to an independent princely state and was a British protectorate until 1947 . It was under the province of Bengal until 1905 , then the Central Provinces and in 1892 had an area of 3849 km² and 129,000 inhabitants.
The Raja joined the Eastern States Union in August 1947 . On January 1, 1948, this union was dissolved and Raigarh was incorporated into Madhya Pradesh and India . On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved. Since November 1, 2000, the area has belonged to the newly formed state of Chhattisgarh.
literature
- George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1875, ( digitized version ).
- Raigarh State. In: The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 21: Pushkar to Salween. New Edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1908, pp. 45-47 .
- 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 .
