States of India

States of India

TH E u m: STATES OF INDIA. ~ JADAB CH ANDRA CHAKRABARTI J UDICIAL H EMB ER AND C IVIL AND SESSIONS JUDGE OF TH E KU CH B EHAR STATE b “ f H z 1 ( x : CALC UTTA PRINTED AND PU BLISH ED BY K HAw S. S , AT THE ELM PR SS 2 RAD E , 9, B ON STREET. 18 95 . PREFACE . Tms work of reference has been principally ’ com il fr m Dr Hunter s eria Gaz etteer p ed o . Imp l ' of n i onel Malleson s ative States I d a. Col N o f ’ I m n Hami to ’ z et ndia, Tho to s and l n s Ga teers, and ’ Aitchison s Treaties and Engagements have also been largely availed o f for i nformati ons incor r The ob ect o f this com ila porated in the w o k . j p ' tion is to place before the public a bird s- eye View o f the large number o f Native States w hich lie scattered all over the different provi nces of the vast t oes n Indian Empire . I d o t pretend to throw any the sub ect ' or lace be ore r new light on j , p f eaders of Indian history an y fresh in formation hitherto n or inaccessible to e I on unk own th m. t is ly r s atistical acco t n t re a tabular o t un sho wi g he a as, o u ation rev en ue an d mi itar re r e p p l , , l y sou c s of the States, and such other in formation concern ing them as the compiler has deemed likely to be in terestin and usefu The com i er f g l . p l o this w ork had at on e time a more ambitious scheme i n View and had w ritten a fragment of . a history of these States both in English and Ben gali but bein g anticipated i n his attempts by other publication s t he v alue o f w hich in point o f historic authenticity or richn ess of materials ‘ eft n o hin more to be desire l t g d, he conten ts himself w ith a less ambitious statistical account t ve S a e o f the Na i t t s. To the compilation is annexed a graded list o f the States in re ard to the annua reve e g l nu of each . Another list showing the rank and position of the chiefs according to the salutes awar ded to them by the ritish ov ern ent has a so been dde B G m l a d. The population given i n the b ook of the several Nati ve States is based on the cen sus of India taken i n the ear 1880 y . The n ames of the Nativ e States have been habetica arran ed in the w ork alp lly g . TR DU T IN O C ION . THE contin ent of India w as n ev er perhaps unden of ne s n e verei n the s way o i gl so g s. All that w e kn ow of its history from the Vedic age s do wn to the begi nning o f the 1 1th century w hen Mahmud of uz h i in v ed the countr is that he ifferen G ad y, t d t portion s of it w ere under the rule of differen t de e We read in he -v indepen nt princ s . t Maha bharata that durin g the great w ar o f the Kurus an d Pan avas the ar e n umber o f inde enden t chi f d , l g p e s w ho ruled ov er distant parts o f the country had allied themselv es either w ith the one or the other of en in ar e It is a so an n the cont d g p ti s . l u doubted fact that from the time the Aryans first entered India up to the r rth century w hen the Mussulman i nvader Kutubuddin established his capital in De hi no art of n dia w as ev er v l , p I go ern ed by a rince o f forei n n ation a it It w as from p g l y . the time o f K utubuddin that the Hin dus first b ecame the subjects of an ali en ruler an d lost their i nde endence The sun o f their or set w ith the p . gl y advent of this Moslem king 1 From 1206 to 1707 Mah medan f ifferent nomi o s o d de nations, the Af ans the Pathans and the Mo u s sw e t the g , g l p countr and ru ed su re m on er a o h r y l p e e aft n t e . Although the co untry remained for about 5 00 years under the rule of th ese Moslem sovereigns who w ere alien i n religi on and thoug ht to the subj ect ra ces here w as sti one t a of cou tr er , t ll r ct n y wh e h us ret ne their u r mac h r t e Hind ai d s p e y. T e val o ous and w arlike Rajputs still held thei r own ns ei n inv ders Amid t e ener l dis agai t for g a . h g a i f t e H m re in tegrat on o h indu E pi , the Rajput States still preserved their i ntegrity and succeeded in keeping the internal administration free from e f r e foreign int r e enc . The bigotry and oppression of Aurangz eb sub sequently led to the decli ne of the Mahomedau n i The time and ou had e power in I d a . h r com and the mighty Sivajee appeared in the field and immoved the o pportunity and kindled in the minds of the w hole of the Maharatta population a flame that ev entually consumed the Mahomedan power com lete xt si e a p ly. E en v nd powerful Hindu king doms were - established at this time by the Peshw a i n the South Mahara ta coun tr b t e t y, y h Gaekw ar i n Western ndia b Scin dia an d B olk r I , y a in Cen tral ndia an d Ma w a b hem Saw an t in S I l , y K w an tw ari an d by the descen dan ts o f the great Siv ajee i n Ko ha r he n i h l pu . T E gl s established their ascen d en cy i n In dia ab out the middle o f the 18 th century an d from that period up to the Viceroy alty o f Lord Da housie severa ow erfu and in e en en d l , l p l d p d t Hin u in ms t e Pun b a or e do h a e han se &c. w ere k g , j , N gp , J , one after another an nexed to the ritish in om B k gd . In spite of the un interrupted rule of the Mahome dan s for more than 5 00 years an d the annexations e e b the ritish overnmen t it is subs quently mad y B G , yet a stern fact that the n umb er of N ati ve States i n n ia reat an d sma is over 00 I d , g ll, 5 1 The mighty w ave o f the spirit o f i n dependence and heroism w hich once flow ed ov er the length and breadth o f Bahrat - Barsa has n o doubt sub sided but it has left be hin d it indubitable traces These hundreds of ativ e all over the land. N States of India may fitly be compared to the lo wlands of an inundated coun try w hich retain in their bosom volumes o f water long after the subsidence of the flood There is hardly a coun try or ev en a continent on the face of the e arth w here so man ru in fami ies reat an m y l g l , g d s all, wield authorit and ho d sw a ov er mi ions of m n y l y ll e . As the di fferent schools o f Hindu philosophy remind a Hindu of the great emin ence w hich intellec tual culture had on ce attained in In dia ; as the Vedas the U anishads the edanta the ita and , p , V , G the Budhist scriptures bear testimony to the admit able exten t to w hich religious and Spiritual culture had Spread as the w orks of Arya- Bhatta and Surjya Sidhanta demon strate scientific eminence so the existence of more than 5 00 Native States in India to this day be ars livi ng testimony to the Spirit of indepen dence w hich once prev ailed in this epitome of the wo rld 1 Has not every Hindu ample reason to be justly proud of his n oble ancestors The territorial extent of all the Native States o f India is at the presen t day about n t eir a i square miles a d h popul t on about 50 millions.

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