Tonk (state)
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| Capital | Tonk | ||||
| Form of government | Princely State (17 rounds salute) | ||||
| surface | 6578 km² | ||||
| population | 365,000 (1941) | ||||
| founding | 1806 | ||||
| resolution | April 7, 1949 | ||||
| State religion: Islam Dynasty: Buner Pathan |
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Tonk ( Hindi : टोंक , Ṭoṅk ) was one of the princely states of the Rajputana in what is now Rajasthan ( British India ), named after the capital of the same name . It consisted of several separate parts (see historical map of Rajasthan) and in 1941 had an area of 6578 km² and 365,000 inhabitants.
history
The princely state was founded by the Afghan adventurer and leader of the Pindari Amir Khan - a Muslim. In 1799 he entered the service of the Marathi leader Yashwant Rao Holkar , who became Maharaja of Indore in 1806 and who gave him the first lands. In the following years he took part in the wars between Jaipur and Marwar , then turned against the Marathas of Nagpur . In 1817 the intervention of the British East India Company in the Third Marath War ended the power of the Pindaris. Amir Khan accepted British protection, for which he was guaranteed his possessions and the title of Nawab (Arabic governor).
On March 25, 1948, the ruling Nawab joined the Union of Rajasthan , and on April 7, 1949, it joined India . On November 1, 1956, the princely state was dissolved.
See also
literature
- Barton, William: The princes of India , Delhi 1983
- Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India. CD-ROM. Birken, Hamburg 2004.
- Ian Copland: The princes of India in the endgame of empire, 1917-1947 (= Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society. 2). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1997, ISBN 0-521-57179-0 .
- Malleson, GB: An historical sketch of the native states of India , London 1875, Reprint Delhi 1984
- Roberts, PE: Historical Geography of India , 2 vol., 1938, reprint Jaipur 1995
- 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 .
