Jaso or Jassu, formerly known as Yashogarh was a
princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to ...
of the Bundelkhand Agency in
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 ...
located in present-day
Nagod tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...
,
Satna district
Satna District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Satna is the district headquarters. The district has an area of 7,502 km², and a population of 22,28,935(2011 census), 20.63% of which is urban. The district ...
,
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital city, capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar, and Rewa, India, Rewa being the othe ...
.
It was surrounded in the north, east and south by
Nagod State and in the east by
Ajaigarh.
History
Jaso State was founded in 1732 by Bharti Chand, younger brother of Raja Hrideshah of Panna. Around 1750, it was split into Bandhora and Jaso, being reunited later in the eighteenth century.
In 1816 Jaso State became a
British protectorate. The last ruler of the state signed the accession of Jaso State to the
Indian Union in 1948.
Rulers
Rulers bore the title of
Diwan
* 1732 – 1750 Bharti Chand
* 1750 – 1775 Hari Singh
* 1775 – 1786 Chet Singh
* 1786 – 1830 Murat Singh
* 1830 – 1860 Ishri Singh (b. ... – d. 1860)
* 1860 – 1865 Ram Singh (b. ... – d. 1860)
* 1860 – 1869 Shatarjit Singh (adopted son and descendant of Dewan Chet Singh)
* 1869 – 1876 Bhopal Singh
* 1876 – 1888 Gajraj Singh
* 1888 – 1889 Chhatrapati Singh
* 7 July 1889 – 1900 Jagat Raj Singh
* 1900 – 1918 Girwar Singh
* 1918 – 1942 Ram Pratap Singh
* 1947 – 2020 Anand Pratap Singh
*2020 - present Harsh Pratap Singh
Rulers of Bandhora
Durjan Singh and Medni Singh ruled as the Dewans of Bandhora when the state was split from Jaso in the 18th century.
See also
*
Bagelkhand Agency
*
List of Indian princely states
Before the Partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called "native states", existed in India, which were not fully and formally part of British India, the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered or an ...
References
Princely states of India
History of Madhya Pradesh
Rajputs
Satna district
1732 establishments in India
1948 disestablishments in India
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