Samthar (state)
| Samthar State | |||||
| 1735-1950 | |||||
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| Capital | Samthar | ||||
| Form of government | Princely state (11 shot salute) | ||||
| surface | 461 km² | ||||
| population | 33,000 (1901) | ||||
| founding | 1735 | ||||
| resolution | January 1, 1950 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Badgujjar |
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Samthar was a princely state in the Bundelkhand region of British India in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh . Its capital was the place Samthar . Nuni Shah Rajdhar supported the Maharaja of Datia in a dispute for succession to the throne; therefore his son Madan Singh Rajdhar received Samthar as a fief in 1733. His son Raja Ranjit Singh I declared himself independent in the course of the Marathas . Samthar was a British protectorate from 1817 to 1947 . Raja Chhatar Singh (1864-96) was elevated to Maharaja in 1877.
In 1901 the country had an area of 461 km² and 33,000 inhabitants. On April 4, 1948, Samthar joined the Princely Union of Vindhya Pradesh and on January 1, 1950, joined India (see History of India ) and was incorporated into the state of Uttar Pradesh.
See also
literature
- William Wilson Hunter (Ed.): Imperial Gazetteer of India 2nd edition Clarendon Oxford 1908–1931 (26 vols., Here especially vol. 26 "Atlas").
- George B. Malleson: An historical sketch of the native states of India in subsidiary alliance with the British Government. A notice of the mediatized and minor states . Academic Press, Gurgaon, Haryana 1984 (reprint of the London 1875 edition).
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6 .
