Aundh State was a
Maratha
The Marathi people (; Marathi: , ''Marāṭhī lōk'') or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, ''Marāṭhī'') are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-A ...
princely state during the
British Raj
The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent,
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, in the
Deccan States Agency division of the
Bombay Presidency.
The Principality of Aundh covered an area of 1298 square kilometers with a population of 88,762 in 1941.
The capital of the state was
Aundh.
History
Aundh was a
Jagir granted by
Chhatrapati Sambhaji to
Parshuram Trimbak Pant Pratinidhi, who was a general, administrator and later
Pratinidhi of the
Maratha Empire
The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...
during the reign of
Chhatrapati Sambhaji and
Chhatrapati Rajaram. He played a crucial role in re-capturing
Panhala Fort
Panhala fort (also known as Panhalgad and Panhalla ( literally "the home of serpents")), is located in Panhala, 20 kilometres northwest of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India. It is strategically located looking over a pass in the Sahyadri mountain ...
,
Ajinkyatara (at Satara), Bhupalgad forts from
Mughals
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of pre ...
during period of 1700–1705.
After the fall of Peshwa rule, the British East India company entered separate treaties in 1820 with all the Jagirdars who were nominally subordinate to the Raja of
Satara.
, Aundh,
Bhor
Bhor () is a town and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Geography
Bhor is located at . It has an average elevation of 588 metres (1929 feet).
Demographics
India census, Bhor had a populat ...
,
Daphlapur,
Jath, and
Phaltan, which were
Jagir
A jagir (), ( Hindustani: जागीर/جاگیر, ''Jāgīr''), ( Marathi: जहागीर, ''Jahāgīrá'') also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar ( Zamindar ...
s of
Satara State, became tributaries to the British when Satara state was abolished in 1849. The last ruler of the Aundh was
Raja Shrimant Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi ("Bala Sahib"). The state joined the
Union of India on 8 March 1948.
Rulers
Aundh's
Hindu
Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...
rulers used the title of "Pant Pratinidhi".
See also
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Pant Pratinidhi family
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Aundh Experiment
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List of Indian princely states
Before the partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called "native states", existed in India. These were not part of British India, the parts of the Indian subcontinent which were under direct British administration, but ...
References
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Princely states of Maharashtra
States and territories established in 1699
Satara district
1699 establishments in Asia