This article is about the princely state during the British Raj. For the natural and historical region, see History of Bikaner.
State of Bikaner
बीकानेर रियासत
1465–1947
Flag
Coat of arms
Motto: "Jai Jungaldhar Badshah" Victory to the king of deserts
Bikaner State with Rajputana, in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1909).
Official languages
Rajasthani and Hindi
Religion
Hinduism (state religion)[1]
Demonym(s)
Bikaner
History
• Established
1465
• Independence of India
1947
Area
• Total
60,391 km2 (23,317 sq mi)
Population
• 1931 estimate
936,218
Succeeded by
India
Today part of
Rajasthan, India
Bikaner Laxmi Niwas PalaceMaharaja Anup Singh of Bikaner hunting elephantsHonorific insignia in gold offered to the Maharaja of Bikaner by the Mughal Emperor.Raja Karan Singh of Bikaner, Aurangzeb's ally and enemy.Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner with his son Sadul Singh in 1914.Bikaner Camel CorpsBoard of combat daggers at the Darbar Hall
Bikaner State was a princely state in the Rajputana from 1465 to 1947. The founder of the state, Rao Bika, was the eldest son of Rao Jodha, ruler of Jodhpur. Rao Bika chose to build his own kingdom instead of inheriting his father's. Bika defeated the Jat clans of Jangladesh along with his uncle Rao Kandhal and his adviser Vikramji Rajpurohit and founded his own kingdom. Its capital was the city of Bikaner in the northern area of present-day Rajasthan State in India. Karni Mata has been designated as the kuldevi of the royal family of Bikaner.
The state was noted for the Bikaner style of painting.[2]
Covering an area of 60,391 km2 (23,317 sq mi), Bikaner State was the second largest state under the Rajputana Agency after Jodhpur State with a revenue of Rs.26,00,000 in 1901.[3] Heeding the 1947 call of Vallabhbhai Patel to integrate the princely states into the new independent India, Bikaner's last king, Maharaja Sadul Singh, advised by his dewan K. M. Panikkar, a respected historian, was one of the first rulers of a princely state to display willingness to join the Indian Union. By issuing a public appeal in April 1947 to his fellow princes to join the Constituent Assembly of India, the Maharaja of Bikaner set an example for other heads of the native states to follow.[4]
^"Bikaner State, Part I, Vol-I, Rajasthan – Linguistic Survey Of India" (PDF). LSOI. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
^Harle, J. C., The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent, 2nd edn. 1994, Yale University Press. (Pelican History of Art). ISBN 0300062176.
^"Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 8, page 214 – Imperial Gazetteer of India – Digital South Asia Library".
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Ramachandra Guha, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy. HarperCollins, 2007.
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