Map of the territories of Indore State, some forming enclaves in neighbouring Gwalior and Bhopal states
Status
State Within the Maratha Confederacy (1731–1818) Protectorate of the East India Company (1818–1857) Princely State of the British Raj (1857–1947) State of the Dominion of India (1947–1948)
Capital
Indore
Raja
• 1732–1766 (first)
Malhar Rao Holkar
• 1926–1948 (last)
Yashwant Rao Holkar II
History
• Established
29 July 1732
• Accession to Dominion of India
1 January 1948
Area
1931
25,646 km2 (9,902 sq mi)
Population
• 1931
13,25,089
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Maratha Empire
Dominion of India
Today part of
Madhya Pradesh, Republic of India
The Rajawada (Old Palace) of IndoreThe Sukhnivas PalaceThe Maharaja of Indore on his state elephantYashwant Rao Holkar and Ranjit Singh in 1805Sir Kashirao (Dada Saheb) Holkar, KCSI, KIH, Raja Of Indore.Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar IITukojirao Holkar III, Maharaja of IndoreMaharani Shrimant Chandravati Bai Sahib Holkar, First Wife of Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar III of IndoreYashwantrao Holkar II
Indore State, also known as Holkar State,[1] was a kingdom in India. Its rulers belonged to the Maratha Holkar dynasty.[2] After 1857, Indore became a 19-gun salute princely state under the British Raj.
Indore State was located in the present-day Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, with its capital at the city of Indore. The state had an area of 24,605 km2 and a population of 1,325,089 in 1931. Other important towns besides Indore were Rampura, Khargone, Maheshwar, Mehidpur, Barwaha, and Bhanpura; there were a total of 3,368 villages.[3]
^Princely States of India
^Cotton, James Sutherland (1911). "Indore" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 500–501.
^Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
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