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Dholpur State | |||||||||
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Princely State of British India | |||||||||
1806–1949 | |||||||||
Dholpur State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||||
Capital | Dholpur | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 3,038 km2 (1,173 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 250,000 | ||||||||
Government | |||||||||
• Type | Sovereign monarchy (1806–1818) Princely state (1818–1947) Constitutional monarchy (1947–1949) | ||||||||
Maharaj Rana | |||||||||
• 1806–1835 | Kirat Singh (first) | ||||||||
• 1911–1949 | Udaybhanu Singh (last) | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1806 | ||||||||
1949 | |||||||||
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Today part of | India · Rajasthan |
Dhaulpur State or Dholpur State, historically known as the Kingdom of Dholpur, was a kingdom of eastern Rajasthan, India, which was founded in AD 1806 by a Jat ruler Rana Kirat Singh of Gohad. [1] [2] [3] After 1818, the state was placed under the authority of British India's Rajputana Agency. The Ranas ruled the state until the independence of India in 1947, when the kingdom was merged with the Union of India.
The princely state of Dholpur was located in the present-day state of Rajasthan. The state only had an area of 3,038 km2 (1,173 sq mi), and an estimated revenue of Rs. 9,60,000. [4]
The former chief minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, was a member of the erstwhile ruling family of Dholpur as she was married to Maharaja Hemant Singh before getting divorced.
Very little is known of the early history of the state. According to tradition, a predecessor state was established as Dhavalapura. In 1505, neighboring Gohad State of Rana Jats was founded and between 1740 and 1756 Gohad occupied Gwalior Fort. From 1761 to 1775 Dholpur was annexed to Bharatpur State and between 1782 and December 1805 Dholpur was again annexed by Gwalior. On 10 January 1806 Dholpur became a British protectorate and in the same year the ruler of Gohad merged Gohad into Dholpur. [5] [6]
The last ruler of Dholpur signed the instrument of accession to the Indian Union on 7 April 1949 and the state was merged in Matsya Union. [7]
The rulers of the state were Jats and were styled Maharaja Rana from 1806 onwards. [5] They were entitled to a 15-gun salute.
Rana Dushyant Singh is a titular Maharaja of Dholpur and presently a four-time Member of Parliament
The descendants of Maharaj Udai Bhan Singh and Maharaj Nihal Singh are still carrying on their family legacy.
The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana, under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range. The total area of the states falling within the Rajputana Agency was 127,541 square miles (330,330 km2), with eighteen states and two estates or chiefships.
Vasundhara Raje Scindia is an Indian politician, who has held two terms as the chief minister of Rajasthan. She was previously a minister in the Union Cabinet of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and was India's first Minister of Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, which now known as Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. In 2003, she became the first woman to serve as the Chief Minister for the state of Rajasthan. She is currently one of the national vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). A member of the Scindia family, she is also the matriarch of the Bamraulia family of Dholpur.
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