Datia State ( hi, दतिया राज्य) was a

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subsidiary alliance A subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history, was a tributary alliance between a South Asian state and a European East India Company. Under this system, an Indian ruler who formed a treaty with the company in question would be provided wi ...

with

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

. The state was administered as part of the

Bundelkhand Agency The Bundelkhand Agency was a political agency of the British Raj, managing the relations of the British government with the protected princely states of the Bundelkhand region. History Historical background The Marathas ceded parts of Bu ...

Central India Central India is a loosely defined geographical region of India. There is no clear official definition and various ones may be used. One common definition consists of the states of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, which are included in al ...

. It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near

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, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon the United Provinces.

History

Datia had formerly been a state in the

Bundelkhand Bundelkhand (, ) is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central & North India. The hilly region is now divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion l ...

region founded in 1626. The ruling family were

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s of the

Bundela The Bundela is a Rajput clan. Over several generations, the cadet lineages of Bundela Rajputs founded several states in area what came to be known as Bundelkhand anciently known as Chedi Kingdom from the 16th century. Etymology As per Jaswant ...

clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of Orchha. It was second highest in the rank of all the Bundela states after Orchha, with a 17-gun salute, and its Maharajas bore the hereditary title of Second of the Princes of Bundelkhand. The land area of the state was its population in 1901 was 53,759. It enjoyed an estimated revenue of £2,00,000. The state suffered from famine in 1896–97, and again to a lesser extent in 1899–1900. After

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in 1947, the Maharaja of Datia acceded unto the

Dominion of India The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India,* Quote: “The first collective use (of the word "dominion") occurred at the Colonial Conference (April to May 1907) when the title was conferred upon Canada and Australia. New Zealand and N ...

; it later merged with the Union of India. Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of

Vindhya Pradesh Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India. It occupied an area of 23,603 sq. miles. It was created in 1948 as Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States, shortly after Indian independence, from the territories of the princely states in the ea ...

in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state of

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within the Union of India.

Rulers

Raos

The following rulers carried the title "Rao": * 1626 - 1656: Rao Bhagwan singh * 1656 - 1683: Rao Subha Karan singh * 1683 - 1706: Rao Dalpal singh * 1706 – 1733: Rao Ramchandra Singh * 1733 – 1762: Rao Indrajit Singh * 1762 – 1801: Rao Shatrujit Singh

Rajas

The following rulers carried the title "Raja": *1801 – 1839: Raja Parichhat Singh *1839 – 20 Nov 1857: Bijai Singh *1857 – 1865: Bhavani Singh (b. 1846 – d. 1907)

Maharajas

The following rulers carried the title "Maharaja Sir Lokendra". The title came into effect from the year 1877: *1865 – Jul 1907: Bhavani Singh Judeo Bahadur (s.a.) *5 August 1907 – 15 August 1947: Govind Singh Judeo Bahadur G.C.I.E. K.C.S.I. (b. 1886 – d. 1951)

Heads of the family in the Republic Of India

*1947 – 1951: Govind Singh Judeo *1951 – 1978: Balbhadra Singh Judeo *1978 – 2006: Kishan Singh Judeo *2006 – 2020: Rajendra Singh Judeo *2020 – present: Arunaditya Singh Judeo

Postal/Philatelic Information

From 1893 there were primitive stamps bearing the name 'DUTTIA STATE' and also 'DATIA STATE'. The first issue is among the rarest of all Indian princely state stamps. A total of 29 series of stamps were issued until 1920. From 1921 only Indian Stamps were valid.Andreas Birken: ''Philatelic Atlas of British India'', Hamburg 2004

References

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* {{Coord, 25, 41, N, 78, 28, E, source:kolossus-cawiki, display=title Princely states of Bundelkhand 1626 establishments in India 1950 disestablishments in India States and territories disestablished in 1950 States and territories established in 1626 Datia district Rajputs