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Indian general election, 1945

Although the Government of India Act, 1935 had proposed an all-India federation, it could not take place because the government held that the Princely states were unwilling to join it.


Akbar II

Prince Mirza Akbar was born on 22 April 1760 to Emperor Shah Alam II at Mukundpur, Rewa, while his father was in exile.

Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception

Alphonsamma, as she was locally known, was born in Arpookara, a village in the princely state of Travancore within Kerala,India.

Alwar State

The princely state of Alwar was founded by Pratap Singh, a Rajput of the Kachwaha lineage, in the second half of the 18th century.

Aouda

The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the Hindu ruler of Bundelkhand, an Indian princely state.

Bahadur Singh of Bundi

Colonel Maharao Raja Shri Bahadur Singhji Bahadur (17th March 1920 - 24th December 1977) was the 28th and the last official ruler of the princely state of Bundi belonging to Hada Chauhan clan of Rajputs.

Bamra

Bamra, covering an area of 5149 km², was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj, and acceded to India on 1 January 1948.

Baramulla district

It was the oldest and the most important town in north of princely state of Kashmir and Jammu and the 'Gateway of Kashmir Valley' by Rawalpindi-Murree-Muzaffarabad-Baramulla Road until 27 October 1947.

Bhagwant Singh

Rana Bhagwant Singh, GCSI (1823 – 7 February 1873) was the Jat ruler of Dholpur state (1836 - 1873) in Rajasthan, India.

Borith Lake

Borith is a hamlet in the surroundings of the Borith Lake to the northwest of Husseini, a village near Gulmit, Gojal, in the upper Hunza.

Diwan Bhai Abdul Hamid

Diwan Sir Abdul Hamid (also known as Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid) born in Jalandhar was Chief Minister of Kapurthala Princely State in India under the British Raj.

Dungar Singh

Sri Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Narendra Maharaja Shiromani Sri Dungar Singh Bahadur (22 August 1854 – 19 August 1887) was a Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner from 1872 to 1887.

George Arundale

Following his wedding, he deemed it best to reside outside outside Chennai for a few years and accepted an offer from the Maharaja of Indore in central India to serve as the Commissioner of Education of that state.

Ghulam Mansoor

As per the Firman (decree) of Aurangzeb sealed by ‘Sadr Sadoor Abid Khan’, he was awarded Sanad of Qadaa.

Gojal

Gojal is a series of small and large valleys sharing borders with Hunza in the south, China in the north-east and Afghanistan in the north-west.

Govindgarh, Madhya Pradesh

The magicians Siegfried & Roy are famous for breeding and training two white tigers for their performances, referring to them as "royal white tigers", the white tiger's association with the Maharaja of Rewa.

Hill Pigeon

In Pakistan it occurs in northern Chitral particularly in the western part bordering Nuristan in Afghanistan, further east in valleys of Gilgit in Yasin and Hunza and Karakoram ranges in Baltistan from about 2000 meters in winter up to 5500 meters during summer months.

History of Rajasthan

Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state (Tonk), and the Jat states (Bharatpur and Dholpur) were organized into the Rajputana Agency.

Jyotiraditya Scindia

Scindia is one of the wealthiest ministers in the government of India and, in addition, a claimant to property worth Rs. 20,000 crores or $3.27 billion belonging to his late father, Madhav Rao Scindia, a titular hereditary Maharajah of Gwalior, which before 1947 was a princely state in the British Indian Empire.

Kamta-Rajaula

Kamta-Rajaula was a princely state in India during the British Raj.

Khan Muhammad Khan

Colonel Khan Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل خان محمد خان)was a prominent soldier and politician in Poonch, serving in the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and later as Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 War of Independence.

Kinhai

Kinhai was a village of the former princely state of Aundh and was included in Koregaon taluka after the merger of the princely states.

Kuchesar Fort

Rao Raj Vilas, also known as The Kuchesar Fort, is 18th-century fort a heritage resort formed by restoring a section of Ajit Singh's family's ancestral property belonging former princely state, Kuchesar.

Lowari Pass

On the Chitral side of Lowari Top are the people of Ashret, who speak the Phalura language and were assigned by the Mehtar of Chitral to be the guardians of Lowari Top.

Maharaol

The gun salutes enjoyed by princely states that acceded to the Dominion of India on 14 August 1947 included one following Maharaol a Hereditary salute of 9-guns (11-guns personal) for H.H. the Maharaol of Baria

Mayurbhanj Palace

Mayurbhanj Palace was the royal palace of Maharajas of Mayurbhanj, which was a princely state in British Raj.

Medni Singh

Kunwar Medni Singh (around 1857) was a member of royal family of Pratapgarh of Oudh, British India.

Muztar Khairabadi

He served as a judge in the states of Tonk and Gwalior, but fled to Bhopal after losing the support of the Maharaja of Gwalior.

Nazargunj

Nazargunj (tr.: a place worth seeing) is an Indian princely state, originating in Purnea, in the state of Bihar.

Pallichal Pillai

It was because of the reason that the Pallichal Pillai had a slight more alliance with Kollam and Attingal Swaroopams, and the south and east portion of Karamana River was under the Jurisdiction of Travancore, and that Pallichal is included in this area.

Pohap Singh

Rana Pohap Singh was the Jat ruler of Dholpur state in (1836) in Rajasthan, India.

Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India

The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India.

Poykayil Johannan

Johannan was also twice nominated, in the years 1921 and 1931, to the Sree Moolam Praja Sabha, the legislative council of the princely state of Travancore.

Pratap Singh Prabhakar

Pratap Singh Prabhakar (1740 – November 1791) was the first ruler of the princely state of Alwar.

Rajagopala Tondaiman

Raja Sri Brahdamba Dasa Raja Sri Rajagopala Tondaiman Bahadur (23 June 1922 - 16 January 1997) was the ninth and last ruler of the princely state of Pudukkottai.

Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo

Maharaja Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (31 March 1912–23 February 1975) was an Indian politician and the last ruler of the princely state of Patna in Odisha before Indian independence in 1947.

Sanju Pass

The border between British India and the semi-independent State of Kashmir with Eastern Turkestan became a matter of some speculation.

Saurashtra State

The large Kathiawar peninsula consisted of some prominent Princely States of India like the Baroda State, Nawanagar State, Bhavnagar State, Wadhwan, Porbandar, Idar, Dhrangadhra State, Rajpipla, Cambay, Gondal, Morvi, Wankaner, Baria, Dharampur, Dhrol, Limbdi, Rajkot, Palitana, Sachin and many others.

Shergarh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Shergarh, Tanawal, a village in the Oghi tehsil of Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, which was once the capital of the former Tanawal State of Amb

Shergarh, Tanawal

Shergarh was traditionally the summer residence of the Nawabs of Amb, which was incorporated in Pakistan in 1972, and is now part of Mansehra district of Hazara division, Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.

Tariq M. Mir

His father Mr. S.M. Mir BA Cantab Bar-at-Law also served as District and Sessions Judge and later was appointed as Prime Minister in the princely state of Tonk.

Thomas George Montgomerie

Montgomerie recruited a number of individuals to survey Chitral and Badakhshan, including Hyder Shah, who in 1870 traveled through the princely states of Swat and Dir and Badakhshan.

Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa

Patvi Namdar Maharajkumar Shri Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa Sahib (born 6 October 1901, Shrinagar, Gujarat - died 1977, Bombay), was the last Maharajkumar or Yuvraj of Jethwa dynasty of Princely State of Porbandar.

Udaybhanu Singh

Udaibhanu Singh, Lokendra Bahadur, Diler Jang Jai Deo (12 February 1893 – 22 October 1954) was the Jat ruler of Dholpur state (1911–1948) in Rajasthan, India.

United States of Matsya

The United States of Matsya also called Matsya Union was a State of India which was formed on March 17, 1948 by the merger of four erstwhile princely states, Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, and Karauli after accession.


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Andhra Pradesh High Court

This is one of the finest buildings in the city, built in red and white stones in Saracenic style, by Nizam VII Mir Osman Ali Khan the ruler of the princely state of Hyderabad

Atpadi

Later in the 19th century it became part of the princely state of Aundh as well as a palace city, hence it was called Atpadi Mahal.

Bekhud Badayuni

Tiring of the practice of law, he eventually entered into government service, serving as a high official first in the princely state of Sirohi (in Rajasthan), then in the princely state of Jodhpur, where he spent the remainder of his days.

Bharatpur State

Raja Nahar Singh (1823–1858) was another notable king of this princely state.

Bhim Singh

Bhim Singh Rana (c. 1707–1756), ruler of the princely state of Gohad

Bhim Singh II (1909–1991), last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Kotah

Chitral Bodyguard

His Highness The Mehtar of Chitral's Own Bodyguard or informally The Chitral Bodyguard or Mehtar's Bodyguard was a military force under the direct command of the Mehtar of Chitral,a princely state of Pakistan and British India until 1969.

Dumraon

As a princely state its boundaries were the rivers Ganges & Son and included part of Uttar Pradesh.

Edmund Candler

Preferring the politically quiescent atmosphere of a princely state, he took up the post of Principal at Mohindra College, Patiala.

Jafarabad State

Jafarabad was a tributary princely state in India, in the Kathiawar Agency under the suzerainty of the Bombay Presidency.

Jawali, Maharashtra

Jawali falls under the Phaltan Princely State and was the part of Old Maratha Empire under Royal Naik Nimbalkar.

Jhalawar district

The name of the district is derived from the erstwhile princely state of Jhalawar (which literally means the abode of the Jhalas, a Rajput clan).

Jiliya

The Title of the rulers "Tazim Naresh Maharaja Shri" (The Great Hon'ble King) is derived from the Urdu word Tazeem (Tazim) meaning Respect or Honour, which describes their special position as a Dual Tazimi Thikana in the Princely State of Jodhpur whom the Jodhpur Maharaja receives in Darbar by rising from throne, taking steps, and hugging, and are exempted from appearance in Courts of Law in Civil Cases; and Naresh meaning "King" or "Maharaja" or "Raja".

Kangra painting

Kangra painting is the pictorial art of Kangra, named after Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, a former princely state, which patronized the art.

Line of Control

The Pakistan Declaration of 1933 had envisioned the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as one of the "five Northern units of India" that were to form the new nation of Pakistan, on the basis of its Muslim majority.

Madhav Satwalekar

Madhav Satwalekar spent most of his childhood in the Princely State of Aundh where his father was the resident scholar, artist and advisor in the court of the then Maharaja.

Madhopur, Punjab

It was a part of the Nurpur Princely state ruled by the Pathania Rajputs prior to 1849 A.D. Now it is known as "Gateway of Punjab" a meeting point of the three northern states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh

Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Bharatpur (died 1805), the Jat ruler of the Bharatpur princely state in Rajasthan, India

Maihar State

The state became a princely state of British India in the early 19th century, and was administered as part of Bundelkhand Agency in the Central India Agency.

Mandi State

Mandi State was a princely state within the Union of India from 1950 to 1956 with Bilaspur as its capital.

Mathew Manjooran

The movement that he precipitated soon snowballed into the famous Karshaka Prakshobham of 1932 of the erstwhile princely state of Cochin.

Miangul Jahan Zeb

Miangul Jahan Zeb(ميانگل جهان زيب ؛ اردو) (1987–1908), Gujar, formally Miangul Abdul-Haqq Jahan Zeb was former ruler of the princely state of Swat currently part of Pakistan and formally titled the Wāli.

Nandgaon

Rajnandgaon district, and former princely state in Chhattisgarh state of central India

Open prison

The 1957 Hindi film, Do Aankhen Barah Haath by V.Shantaram was inspired by the story of an 'open-prison' experiment swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara, Maharashtra.

Orcha

Orchha State, a princely state of Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pudukkottai Legislative Council

Pudukkottai Legislative Council was the legislative assembly which functioned in the princely state of Pudukkottai from 1924 to 1948.

Ranpur

It was built by the Gohil Emperor Ranji Gohil and was ruled by the Parmar clan of Rajputs and by King Halaji Parmar, a Muslim king, who separated from the Muli Princely State in Surendranagar district and converted his religion from Hindu to Muslim.

Salahuddin Saeed Khan

:Not to be confused with Nawab Salahuddin of the former princely state of Bahawalpur.

Sanad

Sanad deed, in British India, a deed granted to the native princely state confirming them in their states, in return for their allegiance

Saraikistan

As of 2002, there were approximately 15 million Saraiki people, who were speaking the Saraiki language, in central Pakistan in the Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan provinces, mainly based in the former princely state of Bahawalpur.

Vijaya Mohana Muktamba Bai

Vijaya Mohana Muktamba Bai Ammani Raje Sahib Chhatrapati CI (1846- 31 January 1885) or Vijaya Mohana Mutumbar Bai as per British records, was a member of the Marathi Bhonsle royal family who succeeded Shivaji II as the ruler of the princely state of Tanjore.

Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar

In 1940, Maharaja Pratap Singh Gayakwad of the princely state of Baroda (which was then under British Raj) honored Pendharkar by naming him as Raj Kawi (राजकवि) --state poet.