Satara (state)
| Satara | |||||
| 1674-1848 | |||||
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| Capital | Satara | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State | ||||
| founding | 1674 | ||||
| resolution | April 5, 1848 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Bhonsle |
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Satara was a princely state of British India in the Western Ghats north of Goa in today's state of Maharashtra . Its capital was the place Satara . The principality went back to the marath leader Shivaji Rao Bhonsle I, who wrested the Fort Satara from the Mughal Empire in 1663 and 1674-80 was the first Maharaja Chhatrapati of Satara. After his death, the Maratha generals acted largely independently in their principalities and the Bhonsle - Dynasty was divided in 1730 into a Satara- and Kolhapur branch. In fact, the Marathas Empire was ruled by the hereditary prime ministers, the Peshwas , who moved the capital to Pune in 1749 . The Bhonsles remained in Satara as titular kings. After the British victory over the Marathas in 1818 and the annexation of Pune, however, they left the Maharaja of Satara (a British protectorate from 1819 ) in office. But when the Maharaja Chhatrapati Shahuji Rao (called Appa Saheb) Bhonsle III. (1839–48) died without male heirs, the British adopted Satara as the first princely state according to the Doctrine of Lapse and made it a district of the Bombay presidency .
literature
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, 2nd A., 26 vol., Oxford 1908–1931
- Malleson, GB: An historical sketch of the native states of India , London 1875, Reprint Delhi 1984
- Schwartzberg, Joseph E., Ed .: A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd A., New York / Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6