Samthar is a city and a municipal board in Jhansi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Historically before independence of India, it was also known as Samshergarh erstwhile capital of Samthar State
Bettiah Raj was the second-largest zamindari in the region of India now known as Bihar. It generated annual land revenue rentals of more than 2 million rupees.
Sir Roper Lethbridge was a British academic and civil servant in India and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.
Thakur is a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent. It is also used as a surname in the present day. The female variant of the title is Thakurani or Thakurain, and is also used to describe the wife of a Thakur.
Pratapgarh was a Rajput estate or Jagir of Oudh, India. The rulers of the estate were originally ruling from a place known as Taroul or Tiroul near Allahabad. The ancestor of the family was Babu Sujan Shah, son of Raja Sangram Shah of Tiroul. Later a descendant, Babu Pratap Singh (1628–1683) came to the region known as Rampur and built a fort, and gave the city its current name, Pratapgarh.
Raja Pratap Bahadur Singh (1889–1921) was a Rajput ruler of Pratapgarh of Oudh, India.
Raja Awadhesh Singh was zamindar of Kalakankar estate of Oudh of British India, succeeded by Raja Ramesh Singh.
Kunwar Suresh Singh hailed from the Bisen Rajput family of Kalakankar, zamindari of Oudh. Singh wrote the book titled Pant Ji Aur Kalakankar and Yadon Ke Jharokhe. He was also active in the Indian independence movement and was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi.
Kunwar Medni Singh was a member of royal family of Pratapgarh of Oudh, British India. He established a town near Pratapgarh of Uttar Pradesh, at present known as Katra Medniganj after him.
Rai Jagat Bahadur Singh was the ruler of princely Bhadri state of Oudh. After the murder of Rai Jagmohan and his son Bishnath by Nazim at Ramchaura Ghat on the bank of Ganges, Bhadri was then given to Amarnath Singh, nephew and adopted son of Rai Jagmohan Singh, who was succeeded by his adopted son, Jagat bahadur Singh, whose father Sheoratan Singh, was hanged at Allahabad in 1857. Jagat Bahadur Singh also died without issue, and adopted Rai Sarabjit Singh, who received the hereditary title of Rai from the British government in November 1879.
Bhadri was an estate (taluqdari) of Oudh, British India. Now it is part of Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Surgana State was a princely state of the Bombay Presidency during the era of the British Raj. It was the only state belonging to the Nasik Agency. Its capital was Surgana in Nashik District of present-day Maharashtra. It was ruled by Kolis of Pawar dynasty.
Samthar State was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand Agency of Central India. Its capital was Samshergarh town, located in a level plain in the Bundelkhand region crossed by the Pahuj and the Betwa rivers.
The Treaty of Kalat was an 1875 agreement between the British Raj and the Baloch tribes bordering the Punjab region in modern-day Pakistan.
Bhabhar is a town and a former princely state in Gujarat, India.
Tajpuri is a town and former minor princely state in Gujarat, western India.
Sir Maharaja Bahadur Narendra Krishna Deb was a scion of Sovabazar Raj family and a noted citizen of his time.
Dumraon Raj was a medieval chieftaincy and later a zamindari estate in erstwhile Shahabad district of Bihar.
HH Maharaja Chhatar Singh Deo Bahadur was ruler of Samthar State from 3 February 1865 till his death on 16 June 1896. His son Bir Singh Judeo succeeded the throne on his death.
His Highness Maharaja Bahadur Sri Sir Ishwari Prasad Narayan Singh, GCSI was the Maharaja of Benares ascending the throne at the age of 13. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 he remained neutral to revolt for the sake of welfare of his people as he has not forgotten the bitter taste of treachery of his countrymen in battle against Hastings. As a reward, he was promoted to the rank of Maharaja Bahadur in 1859. In 1867, he was granted a personal 13-gun salute; a decade later he was knighted with the GCSI, becoming Sir Ishwari. He eventually became a member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council and in the crowning achievement of his reign, restored all the family lands that had been lost to them for over a century.
