Shahpura (state)
| Shahpura | |||||
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| Capital | Shahpura | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State | ||||
| surface | 1050 km² | ||||
| population | 55,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | 1629 | ||||
| resolution | April 7, 1949 | ||||
| State religion: Hinduism Dynasty: Shekhawat |
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Shahpura ( Thikana ) was one of the princely states of the Rajputs in today's Rajasthan ( British India ), named after its capital of the same name . The principality was founded by Suraj Mal, the second son of Maharana Amir Singh I of Mewar ( Udaipur ), which the Mughal emperor left for military service in 1629 proven to Phoona district. His descendants had the title Raja since 1769 and Rajadhiraja since 1802.
After the Marathas Wars , Shahpura became a British protectorate (until 1947). In 1941 it had an area of 1050 km² and 55,000 inhabitants. On March 25, 1948, the accession to the Union of Rajasthan followed , on April 7, 1949, the annexation to India and on November 1, 1956, the dissolution of the princely state.
Shahpura probably set up its own state post in the 1870s. Between 1914 and 1928 very simply designed postage stamps were issued. From the early 1930s, postage stamps were used for franking instead of postage . After joining the Union of Rajasthan, the stamps were given a blue hand stamp overprint; the postal service ceased on April 1, 1950. The existence of the postal service was forgotten and only became known again in 1962 through an article in the India Post magazine of the India Study Circle, a philatelic working group that researched Indian mail.
See also
literature
- William Barton: The Princes of India and Nepal , Cosmo Publications, New Delhi, 1983
- Ian Copland: The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire 1917-1947 , Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997, ISBN 0-521-57179-0
- GB Malleson: An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India: In Subsidiary Alliance with the British Government London 1875, Reprint: New Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2005, ISBN 81-206-1971-4
- PE Roberts: Historical Geography of India , 2 vol., 1938, Reprint Jaipur 1995
- Joseph E. Schwartzberg (Ed.): A historical atlas of South Asia , 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford, 1992, ISBN 0-19-506869-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Exhibit of philatelic documents from Shahpura PDF (English)
