Daphlapur State, also spelled Daflepur, was a Hindu petty

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...

of British India. It was a former Maratha territory, one of the former Southern Maratha

Jagir A jagir ( fa, , translit=Jāgir), also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. It developed during the Islamic rule era of the Indian subcontinent, start ...

s (feudal estates). Daphlapur State and neighbouring Jath State were the only two states belonging to the

Bijapur Agency Jath State, was one of the non-salute Maratha princely states of British India, one of the former Southern Maratha Jagirs. Jath State and Daphlapur State were the only two states belonging to the Bijapur Agency under the Bombay Presidency, w ...

under the

Bombay Presidency The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay. The first mainl ...

,Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 173.
/ref> which later would become part of the colonial Deccan States Agency. The state had six villages with an area of only and a population of 6,006 inhabitants in 1881.

History

The state was founded in 1680 as Daphlapur. Following British rule in the area it came under the collector of Bijapur District, together with larger Jath State. The third widow of the last ruler, Ranibai Lakshmibai Saheb, died without succession and the dynasty line of the state became extinguished. Then Daphlapur ended up being annexed by Jath State on 27 January 1917.

Rulers

The rulers of the state belonged to the Dafle dynasty and bore the (rarely modest) title of '' Deshmukh''. On 27 January 1917, the state was incorporated into

Jath Jat is a town and taluka headquarters in Miraj subdivision of Sangli district in southern Maharashtra. History Jat was the capital of a former Maratha jagir ruled by Dafales. Most of the dynasty period it was affiliated with Bijapur. For so ...

, whose rulers (also styled Deshmukh) shared the same Dafle bloodline, owing to lack of successionWorldStatesmen- Princely States of India A-J
/ref> and were awarded a Privy Purse of 49,924 Rupees. The joint state ceased to exist on 8 March 1948 by accession to

Bombay state Bombay State was a large Indian state created at the time of India's Independence, with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years. Bombay Presidency (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding Sou ...

Deshmukhs

*1680 – 1703 Satvaji Rao I (d. 1706) *1703 – 1704 Bovaji Rao (d. 1704) *1704 – 1748 Yesu Bai "Au Sahib" (female) (d. 1754) *1748 – 1759 Yeshwant Rao (d. 1759) *1759 – 1790 Amrit Rao I (d. 1790) *1790 – 1810 Khanji Rao (b. 17.. – d. 1810) *1810 – 1822 Renuka Bai (female) – Regent (d. 1822) (administrator from 1816) *1822 – December 1885 Satvaji Rao II (b. 1797 – d. 1885) *Dec 1885 – 13 Jan 1917 Ranibai Lakshmibai Saheb (female) (b. 1834 – d. 1917)

References

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Rulers

Deshmukhs

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