Datia State

Datia State
Datia State
Princely state of British India
1626–1950
	Coat of arms
	; Datia State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
Area
• 1901	5,500 km2 (2,100 sq mi)
Population
• 1901	53,759
History
• Established	1626
• Accession to the Union of India	1950
	Succeeded by
India
Today part of	India

Datia State was a princely state in subsidiary alliance with British India.^[1]

The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand Agency of Central India. It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near Gwalior, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon the United Provinces.^[2]

History

Datia had formerly been a state in the Bundelkhand region founded in 1626. The ruling family were Rajputs of the Bundela clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of Orchha.^[2]

After India's independence in 1947, the Maharaja of Datia acceded unto the Dominion of India; it later merged with the Union of India. Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state of Madhya Pradesh within the Union of India.

Rulers

Raos

The following rulers carried the title "Rao":

1626 - 1656: Rao Bhagwan singh
1656 - 1683: Rao Subha Karan singh
1683 - 1706: Rao Dalpat singh
1706 – 1733: Rao Ramchandra Singh
1733 – 1762: Rao Indrajit Singh
1762 – 1801: Rao Shatrujit Singh

Rajas

The following rulers carried the title "Raja":

1801 – 1839: Raja Parichhat Singh
1839 – 20 Nov 1857: Bijai Singh
1857 – 1865: Bhavani Singh (b. 1846 – d. 1907)

Maharajas

The following rulers carried the title "Maharaja Sir Lokendra".^[3] The title came into effect from the year 1877:

1865 – Jul 1907: Bhavani Singh Judeo Bahadur (s.a.)
5 August 1907 – 15 August 1947: Govind Singh Judeo Bahadur G.C.I.E. K.C.S.I. (b. 1886 – d. 1951)

Heads of the family in the Republic Of India

1947 – 1951: Govind Singh Judeo
1951 – 1978: Balbhadra Singh Judeo
1978 – 2006: Kishan Singh Judeo
2006 – 2020: Rajendra Singh Judeo
2020 – present: Arunaditya Singh Judeo

Postal/Philatelic Information

From 1893, there were primitive stamps bearing both the names 'DUTTIA STATE' and 'DATIA STATE'. The first issue is among the rarest of all Indian princely state stamps. A total of 29 series of stamps were issued until 1920. From 1921 only Indian Stamps were valid.^[4]

References

^ Imperial Gazetteer of India
^ ^a ^b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Datia" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 845–846.
^ States before 1947
^ Andreas Birken: Philatelic Atlas of British India, Hamburg 2004