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State of Kolhapur | |||||||||
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| 1710–1949 | |||||||||
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 Kolhapur State Map, 1912 | |||||||||
| Status | Principality within the Maratha Confederacy (1707–1818) Protectorate of the East India Company (1818–1857) Princely State of the India (1857–1947) State of the Dominion of India (1947–1949) | ||||||||
| Capital | Kolhapur | ||||||||
| Raja/Maharaja | |||||||||
• 1710–1714 (first) | Shivaji I | ||||||||
• 1947–1949 (last) | Shahaji II | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1710 | ||||||||
• Acceded to Dominion of India | 1947 | ||||||||
• Merged into Bombay State | 1949 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1901 | 8,332 km2 (3,217 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 910,011 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Maharashtra, India | ||||||||
The Kolhapur State was a Maratha princely state of India, under the Deccan Division of the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency.[1] It was considered the most important of the Maratha principalities[citation needed] with the others being Baroda State, Gwalior State and Indore State. Its rulers, of the Bhonsle dynasty, were entitled to a 19-gun salute – thus Kolhapur was also known as a 19-gun state. The state flag was a swallow-tailed saffron pennant.[2]
Kolhapur State, together with its jagirs or feudatory vassal estates (including Ichalkaranji), covered an area of 3,165 square miles (8,200 km2).[3] According to the 1901 census, the state population was 910,011, of which 54,373 resided in Kolhapur Town. In 1901, the state enjoyed an estimated revenue of £300,000.[3][4]
- ^ "Kolhapur State". The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 15. Oxford at Clarendon Press. 1909. pp. 380–87.
- ^ Gazetteer, p. 380
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 889.
- ^ "Kolhapur Princely State (19 gun salute)". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2014.