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Pataudi State

Pataudi State was a small princely state in India, established in 1804 by the East India Company rule in India.

Pataudi State
Princely State
1804–1948
Flag of Pataudi
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Pataudi shown in Delhi Territory, south of Gurgaon, Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908
Area 
• 1901
135 km2 (52 sq mi)
Population 
• 1901
21,933
History 
• Established
1804
1948
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Maratha Empire
India
View of Pataudi Palace.

The state formed a part of the Delhi Territory in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. It was under the suzerainty of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 52 square miles and included one town, Pataudi, which was its capital, and 40 villages, ruled by the Pataudi family.[1]

History

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The ruling family traces their origin from a saintly Afghan family, which initially settle near Samana in Patiala in 16th century, during the period of the Lodi dynasty.[2][3]

A descendant, Faiz Talab Khan, an Afghan Pashtun warlord of the Barech tribe, who was closly connected with Jhajjar ruling family by marriage was in service with the Maratha Empire and also received th fief of Rohtak. However after the defeat of Marathas in 1803, he was employed under British general Lord Lake. Subseqently, he aided the East Indian Company Forces in their battle against the Maratha Empire during the Second Anglo-Maratha War. He was also severely injured during the war, thereafter in 1806, in recognition of his services, he was awarded a land grant of perpetual jagir comprising 40 villages, from Lord Lake, and thus became the first Nawab of Pataudi state.[3][1]. Faiz Talab Khan in 1806, he took part in the Seige of Bharatpur by the British East India Company forces. His son, Akbar Ali was loyal to the British forces during Indian Rebellion of 1857. [2]

Pataudi town the capital of Pataudi State was founded in 13th-century, the time of Jalaluddin Khilji, Sultan of Delhi (r. 1290 – 1296 CE), by a Mewati named Pata, from whom the town derives its name. By 1901, it has a population of 4171. [2]

The 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, played cricket for both England and India and captained the latter. His son the last Nawab also captained the Indian cricket team.

At the end of the British Raj and with the political integration of India in 1948, the princely state of Pataudi was absorbed into the new Dominion of India (later Republic of India). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).[4][5]

The former Pataudi Palace was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by Saif Ali Khan, the current patriarch of the Pataudi family.

Rulers

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Rulers bore the title of the Nawab.[6][7]

  • Faiz Talab Khan (r. 1804–1829)
  • Akbar Ali Khan (r. 1829–1862)
  • Mohammad Taqi Ali Khan (r. 1862–1867)
  • Mohammad Mukhtar Husain Khan (r. 1867–1878)
  • Mohammad Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan (r. 1878–1898)
  • Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan (r. 1898–1913)
  • Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (r. 1913–1917)
  • Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan (r. 1917–1948; titular 1948–1952)
  • Mohammad Mansoor Ali Khan (1952–2011): Titular Nawab
  • Saif Ali Khan (2011–Present): Titular Nawab

Demographics

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Religious groups in Pataudi State (British Punjab province era)
Religious
group		 1881[8][9][10] 1891[11] 1901[12] 1911[13][14] 1921[15] 1931[16] 1941[17]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
Hinduism [a] 14,473 81.09% 15,825 83.28% 18,281 83.35% 16,114 82.45% 15,090 83.38% 15,596 82.64% 17,728 82.38%
Islam 3,286 18.41% 3,057 16.09% 3,549 16.18% 3,338 17.08% 2,898 16.01% 3,168 16.79% 3,655 16.98%
Jainism 81 0.45% 120 0.63% 103 0.47% 82 0.42% 109 0.6% 105 0.56% 128 0.59%
Christianity 7 0.04% 0 0% 0 0% 9 0.05% 0 0% 3 0.02% 9 0.04%
Sikhism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0.01% 0 0%
Zoroastrianism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Buddhism 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Judaism N/a N/a 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Others 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Total population 17,847 100% 19,002 100% 21,933 100% 19,543 100% 18,097 100% 18,873 100% 21,520 100%
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

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Notes

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  1. ↑ 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis

References

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  1. 1 2 Pataudi by William Wilson Hunter, Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1886, p. 84-85.
  2. 1 2 3 William Wilson Hunter (1909). "The Imperial Gazetteer of India". pp. 26–27. Retrieved 27 May 2026.
  3. 1 2 The Hindu, Sunday, 3 Aug 2003 - Royal vignettes: Pataudi: The Afghan connection
  4. ↑ 1. Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian princes and their states. Cambridge University Press. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-521-26727-4., "Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p 278). 2. Naipaul, V. S. (8 April 2003), India: A Wounded Civilization, Random House Digital, Inc., pp. 37–, ISBN 978-1-4000-3075-0, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the breakup of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time. Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialize only in style. A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in 1947, with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in 1971 had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and titles." (pp 37–38). 3. Schmidt, Karl J. (1995), An atlas and survey of South Asian history, M.E. Sharpe, p. 78, ISBN 978-1-56324-334-9, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses." (page 78). 4. Breckenridge, Carol Appadurai (1995), Consuming modernity: public culture in a South Asian world, U of Minnesota Press, pp. 84–, ISBN 978-0-8166-2306-8, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in 1971, when the constitution ceased to recognize them as princes and their privy purses, titles, and special privileges were abolished." (page 84). 5. Guha, Ramachandra (5 August 2008), India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, HarperCollins, pp. 441–, ISBN 978-0-06-095858-9, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through 1971, the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by 381 votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by 167 votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page 441). 6. Cheesman, David (1997). Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, 1865–1901. London: Routledge. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-0-7007-0470-5. Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their titles." (page 10). 7. Merriam-Webster, Inc (1997), Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary, Merriam-Webster, pp. 520–, ISBN 978-0-87779-546-9, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "Indian States: "Various (formerly) semi-independent areas in India ruled by native princes .... Under British rule ... administered by residents assisted by political agents. Titles and remaining privileges of princes abolished by Indian government 1971." (page 520). 8. Ward, Philip (September 1989), Northern India, Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: a travel guide, Pelican Publishing, pp. 91–, ISBN 978-0-88289-753-0, retrieved 6 November 2011 Quote: "A monarchy is only as good as the reigning monarch: thus it is with the princely states. Once they seemed immutable, invincible. In 1971 they were "derecognized," their privileges, privy purses and titles all abolished at a stroke" (page 91)
  5. ↑ "The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971", indiacode.nic.in, Government of India, 1971, retrieved 9 November 2011
  6. ↑ "Indian states before 1947 K-W". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  7. ↑ "Indian Princely States K-Z". www.worldstatesmen.org. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Census of India, 1881 Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881, vol. I." 1881. JSTOR saoa.crl.25057656. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "Census of India, 1881 Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881, vol. II". 1881. p. 14. JSTOR saoa.crl.25057657. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Census of India, 1881 Report on the Census of the Panjáb Taken on the 17th of February 1881, vol. III". 1881. p. 14. JSTOR saoa.crl.25057658. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "The Punjab and its feudatories, part II--Imperial Tables and Supplementary Returns for the British Territory". 1891. p. 14. JSTOR saoa.crl.25318669. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  12. ↑ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR saoa.crl.25363739. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  13. ↑ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1911. p. 27. JSTOR saoa.crl.25393788. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  14. ↑ Kaul, Harikishan (1911). "Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II". p. 27. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  15. ↑ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables". 1921. p. 29. JSTOR saoa.crl.25430165. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  16. ↑ "Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1931. p. 277. JSTOR saoa.crl.25793242. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  17. ↑ "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab". 1941. p. 42. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215541. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
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