Taraon, also spelt Tarrauhan,Tarahwan,and Tarahuhān, was a

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 ...

in India 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, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule ...

. It had an area of 67 square miles and its population was distributed in 13 villages. The capital of the state was in Pathraundi, located about 1.5 km from Karwi railway station of the

Great Indian Peninsula Railway The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways), whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Mumbai (later, the Victoria Terminu ...

. Tarrauhan Estate was merged into the Indian state of

Vindhya Pradesh Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India. It was created in 1948 as Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States from the territories of the princely states in the eastern portion of the former Central India Agency. It was named as Vindhya P ...

in 1948. The area covered by the former state is now in modern Chitrakoot district, at the southern end of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

.(transfer to Uttar Pradesh occurred on 26 Jan 1950).

History

Tarrauhan was founded in 1812 and was located in Tarrauhan Fort, which had been a former possession of the Rajas of

Panna State Panna State was a kingdom and later princely state of colonial India, located in modern Panna district of Madhya Pradesh. The state of Panna belonged to the Bundelkhand Agency and covered an area of, 6724 km2 with 1,008 villages within ...

. It was one of the

Chaube Jagirs The Chaube Jagirs, also known as Kalinjar Chaubes, jagir states were a group of five feudal states of Central India during the period of the British Raj. They were a British protectorate from 1823 to 1947 and belonged to the Bagelkhand Agency. ...

. In 1884, the Jagidar ceded land for the state jhansi manipur railway. It was under the

Bundelkhand Agency The Bundelkhand Agency was a political agency of the British Raj, managing the relations of the British government with the protected princely states of the Bundelkhand region. History Historical background The Marathas ceded parts of B ...

of the

Central India Agency The Central India Agency was created in 1854, by amalgamating the Western Malwa Agency with other smaller political offices which formerly reported to the Governor-General of India. The agency was overseen by a political agent who maintained ...

until 1896 when it was 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, ...

. In 1931 Tarrauhan was transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.

Rulers

Tarrauhan's rulers bore the title 'Chaube(choubey)'.

Chaubes

*1812 – 1840

Gaya Prasad Gaya Prasad was the Chaube of Taraon State Taraon, also spelt Tarrauhan,Tarahwan,and Tarahuhān, was a jagir in India during the British Raj. It had an area of 67 square miles and its population was distributed in 13 villages. The capital of ...

(also known as Gaya Parshad) (d. 1840) *1840 – 1856 Kamta Prasad (d. 1856) *1856 – 1872 Ram Chand (d. 3 March 1872) *3 March 1872 – 22 January 1881

Interregnum An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of revolutionary breach of legal continuity, discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one m ...

*1881 – 1895 Chhatarbhuj, granted ruling powers on 22 January 1881 (d. 1 January 1895) *1895 – 1925 Brij Gopal, declared insane in 1911; the state was administered on his behalf (d. 1925) *1925 – 1968 Ganga Prasad (b.1905, d. 3 January 1968)A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries
volume 5, 1933, p.248

References

{{MP Princely States Chitrakoot district Princely states of Uttar Pradesh

History

Rulers

Chaubes

See also

References