Barwani State
Barwani State बड़वानी रियासत | |||||||
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British India | |||||||
836–1948 | |||||||
Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||
Capital | Barwani | ||||||
Area | |||||||
• 1941 | 3,051.02 km2 (1,178.01 sq mi) | ||||||
Population | |||||||
• 1941 | 176,666 | ||||||
History | |||||||
• Established | 836 | ||||||
• Accession to the Union of India | 1948 | ||||||
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Today part of | Madhya Pradesh, India | ||||||
Barwani Princely State |
Barwani State [1] was a princely state in India. It is ruled by Sisodiya rajput. The seat was at Barwani.
History
The state was founded in the 11th or 14th century, at which time it was known as Avasgarh.
Under the British Raj, Barwani was a state of the Bhopawar Agency, a division of the Central India Agency. The state lay in the Satpura Range south of the Narmada River. It had an area of 3,051 km2 (1,178 sq mi) and a population, in 1901, of 76,136. The average revenue of the state was Rs.4,00,000.[3] The inhabitants were predominantly Bhil tribals. The forests were under a British official.[1]
After India's independence in 1947, the Rana of Barwani acceded to India, and Barwani became part of the
Rulers
Barwani State was an 9 gun
Ranas
- 1675 - 1700 Jodh Singh (d. 1700)
- 1700 - 1708 Parbat Singh (d. 1708)
- 1708 - 1730 Mohan Singh I (d. 1731)
- 1730 - 1760 Anup Singh (d. 1760)
- 1760 - 1794 Umed Singh (d. 1794)
- 1794 - 1839 Mohan Singh II (d. 1839)
- 1839 - 1861 Jashwant Singh (1st time) (d. 1880)
- 1861 - 1873 vacant
- 1873 - 1880 Jashwant Singh (2nd time)
- 15 Aug 1880 - 1894 Indrajit Singh (d. 1894)
- 14 Dec 1894 – 21 Apr 1930 Ranjit Singh (b. 1888 – d. 1930)
- 21 Apr 1930 – 15 Aug 1947 Devi Sahib Singhji (b. 1922 – d. 2007)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Imperial Gazetteer of India
- ^ Digital South Asia LibraryUniversity of Chicago Archived 18 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 8, page 147 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library".
- ^ Genealogy of the ruling chiefs of Barwani
- ^ States before 1947 A-J
External links
- Media related to Barwani State at Wikimedia Commons