Nilagiri State was one of the Princely States of India during the British Raj. It belonged to the Orissa States Agency and its capital was at Raj Nilgiri,[1] which is the modern town of Nilagiri.[2][3]
The state was bounded in the north and west by the State of Mayurbhanj and in the south by Balasore District. As of 1940 Nilgiri State had a population of 73,109 and an area of 263 square miles (680 km2). In 1949 it was merged into Balasore District.[4]
^Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer, p. 1325
^India (State), Nilgiri (1968). Final Report on the Nilgiri Settlement: Commenced on 1st December, 1917 and Concluded on the 31st March, 1922. Printed at Sarada Press.
^Pati, Biswamoy, 'Alternative Visions: Communists and the State People’s Movement, Nilgiri 1937–48', Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800-1950 (Delhi, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 21 Jan. 2021), doi:10.1093/oso/9780199489404.003.0006, accessed 18 Nov. 2023.
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