| Dewas State Junior Branch देवास छोटी पाती रियासत | |||||||||
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| 1728–1948 | |||||||||
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 Dewas Senior andDewas Junior states in theImperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 1,100 km2 (420 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 54,904 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1728 | ||||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||||
Dewas State was a territory within Central India, which was the seat of twoMaratha princely states during theBritish Raj.After theMaratha conquest of Central India,Dewas was divided into two states -Dewas Junior ruled by Jivaji Rao ('Dada Saheb') Puar andDewas Senior ruled by Tukoji Rao ('Baba Saheb') Puar. On 12 December 1818, the 2 Dewas States becameBritish protectorates.[1]
The seats were established in 1728 by two brothers from theMaratha clanPuar, who advanced into Malwa with thePeshwaBaji Rao, and divided the territory among themselves after theMaratha conquest.[2] Their descendants ruled as the senior and junior branches of the family.
After 1841, each branch ruled his own portion as a separate state, though the lands belonging to each were intimately entangled; in Dewas, the capital town, the two sides of the main street were under different administrations and had different arrangements for water supply and lighting.
The twoRajas heading Dewas states both lived in separate residences in the town ofDewas, and ruled over separate areas.[3]
The Junior branch had an area of 440 sq mi (1,100 km2) and had a population of 54,904 in 1901, while the Senior branch had an area of 446 sq mi (1,160 km2) and a population of in 62,312 in the same year.[4] Both Dewas states were in the Malwa Agency of theCentral India Agency.
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Dewas Junior & SeniorDarbars (Court) was composed ofSardars,Mankaris,Istamuradars,Thakurs andJagirdars.[5][6]
After India's independence in 1947, theMaharajas of Dewas acceded to India, and their states were integrated intoMadhya Bharat, which became a state of India in 1950. In 1956, Madhya Bharat was merged intoMadhya Pradesh state.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dewas".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 137.