The Chaube Jagirs, also known as 'Kalinjar Chaubes', jagir states were a group of five feudatory states of Central India during the period of the

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. They were a British protectorate from 1823 to 1947 and belonged to the Bagelkhand Agency. Their last rulers acceded to India in 1948.

History

Once under the service of Raja

Chhatrasal Chhatrasal Bundela (4 May 1649 – 20 December 1731) was an Indian warrior and ruler from the Bundela Rajput clan, who fought against the Mughal Empire, and established his own kingdom in Bundelkhand during the 17th-18th centuries. Early l ...

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, appointed Mandhata Chaube as the killedar of the fort

Kalinjar Kalinjar ( hi, कालिंजर) is a fortress-city in Bundelkhand, in Banda District of Uttar Pradesh, in India. It was ruled by several dynasties including the Guptas, the Vardhana Dynasty, the Chandelas, Solankis of Rewa, Mughal an ...

whose father Gangaram Chaube accompanied Chhatrasal as his commander when he raised the banner of revolt against the Mughals in Bundelkhand. Mandhata also repel many Mughal attempts to occupy the fort. Once when Kherandesh Khan, the faujdar of Itawa, attacked Kalinjar in 1701. He, however, could not able capture the fort

because of Mandhata's stiff resistance. Later Chaube Brahmin officials rose from gentry to nobility. The owners of the first four estates were descendants of Ram Kishan, the former governor of

under Raja Hirde Sah of Panna. Ram Kishan Chaube failed the siege of Kalinjar

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died during the long seize but not successful in his efforts later Chaubes occupied the fort for themselves and Ram Kishan assert Independence. In 1862 the jagirdars were granted a sanad of adoption. The rule was that when there were no heirs the estate was split between the other members. Initially there were nine principalities but in 1839 two were already extinguished. In 1855 one estate was seized owing to the implication of the ruler in a murder case. Also in 1864 another principality was extinguished and thus only five remained. The Jagirs were under the

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of the

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until 1896 when they were transferred to the

Baghelkhand Agency The Bagelkhand Agency was a British political unit which managed the relations of the British with a number of autonomous princely states existing outside British India, namely Rewa and 11 minor states, of which the most prominent were Maihar, Na ...

. In 1931 they were transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.

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Chaube estates

The estates were: * Bhaisunda *

Kamta-Rajaula Kamta-Rajaula was a princely state in India during the British Raj. History It was one of the Chaube Jagirs, part of the Bagelkhand Agency which was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1948. Kamta-Rajaula was a place of pilgrim ...

Pahra Pahra was a jagir in India during the British Raj. It was under the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency until 1896 when it was transferred to the Baghelkhand Agency. It was later transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency. Pahra had a ...

Paldeo Paldeo, also spelt 'Paldev', was a Jagir, princely estate (Jagir) in India during the British Raj. It was under the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency until 1896 when it was transferred to the Baghelkhand Agency. In 1931 it was transf ...

* Taraon

Annexed by the British

Three states were confiscated by the British: * Purwa with 9 villages and an area of 53.18 km² (annexed in 1855) * Nayagaon with 18 villages and an area of 65.11 km² (annexed in 1864).

References

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History

Chaube estates

Annexed by the British

See also

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