The Kingdom of Narsinghgarh also known as Narsinghgarh State was a princely state located in present-day

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

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with its capital at Narsinghgarh from which the state was named. The ruling family was a cadet branch of the royal family of

Rajgarh State The Kingdom of Rajgarh also known as Rajgarh State was a princely state in present-day India, named after its capital Rajgarh, Madhya Pradesh. It was part of the colonial Bhopal Agency of the Central India Agency during the British Raj. It lay ...

.Imperial Gazetteer of India 1911
/ref> It formed an enclave within

and was placed administratively under the Bhopal Agency subdivision of the Central India Agency. The state covered an area of and had a population of 92,093 and an average revenue of Rs.5,00,000 in 1901. The state capital was the town of the same name, Narsinghgarh.

History

The State of Narsinghgarh was carved out of the state of

by Paras Ramji, the younger brother of the then Ruler of Rajgarh, Rawat Mohan Singhji in 1681. During the 18th century, the state was a feudatory to the

Holkar The Holkars (pronunciation: �o(ː)ɭkəɾ were the ruling house of the Indore State of the Maratha Confederacy, and earlier held the rank of Subahdar under Peshwa Baji Rao I of the Maratha Empire. When the Maratha Confederacy began to we ...

rulers of

Indore State Indore State was a kingdom within the Maratha Confederacy ruled by the Maratha Holkar, Holkar dynasty. After 1857, Indore became a 19-Salute state, gun salute princely state within the Central India Agency of the Indian Empire (1876–1947), Ind ...

, but in 1872 Narsinghgarh was recognized as a princely state by British India . After Indian independence in 1947, the rulers of Narsingarh acceded to the Union of India, and the principality was incorporated into the new state of

Madhya Bharat Madhya Bharat, also known as Malwa Union, was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jiwajirao Scindia as its Rajpramuk ...

in 1948, which subsequently became

state on 1 November 1956.

List of Rulers

The rulers of Narsinghgarh State were styled '

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', and were entitled to an 11-

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Rajas

*Rawat Paras Ramji (1681–95) *Rawat Dalel Singhji (1695) *Rawat Moti Singhji (1695–1751) *Rawat Khuman Singhji (1751–66) *Rawat Achal Singhji (1766–95) *Rawat Sobhagh Singhji (1795–1827) *1872 - Mar 1873 Hanwant Singh (d. 1873) *1873 - Apr 1890 Pratap Singh (d. 1890) *28 Jun 1890 - 1896 Mahtab Singh (b. 1889 - d. 1896) *1896 - 22 Apr 1924 Arjun Singh (b. 1887 - d. 1924) (from 3 Jun 1916, Sir Arjun Singh) *23 Apr 1924 – 15 Aug 1947 Vikram Singh (b. 1909 - d. 1957) (from 1 Jan 1941,

Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part ...

Vikram Singh)

References

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