Rewa (State)
| Rewa | |||||
| approx. 1790–1950 | |||||
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| Capital | Rewa | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State (17 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 33,669 km² | ||||
| population | 1,800,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | circa 1790 | ||||
| resolution | January 1, 1950 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Baghela |
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Rewa ( Hindi : रेवा रियासत; also Rewah ) was a princely state in the Baghelkhand region of British India .
history
The Rajputs -State is the legend since 1140 and was the largest in Bundelkhand. It came under the rule of the Mughal Empire in 1658 and was a British protectorate from 1812 to 1947. Maharajah Ghulab Singh (1930-46) held the title Samrajya Maharajadhiraja Bandhresh Shri Maharaja .
In 1941 the country had an area of 33,669 km² and around 1.8 million inhabitants. On April 4, 1948, Rewa joined the Princely Union of Vindhya Pradesh and on January 1, 1950, it joined India . The Maharajah of Rewa Martand Singh was Rajpramukh (head of state) of Vindhya Pradesh in 1948/49 . On November 1, 1956, all princely states were dissolved and Vindhya Pradesh was incorporated into the state of Madhya Pradesh that had been established a few years earlier .
See also
literature
- Imperial Gazetteer of India , 2nd ed., 26 vols., Oxford 1908–1931
- George Bruce Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India , London 1875, reprinted Delhi 1984
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd edition, New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6
