| Datia State | |||||||
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| Princely state ofBritish India | |||||||
| 1626–1950 | |||||||
 Coat of arms | |||||||
 Datia State in theImperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
• 1901 | 5,500 km2 (2,100 sq mi) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
• 1901 | 53,759 | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1626 | ||||||
| 1950 | |||||||
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| Today part of | India | ||||||
Datia State was aprincely state insubsidiary alliance withBritish India.[1]
The state was administered as part of theBundelkhand Agency ofCentral India. It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, nearGwalior, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon theUnited Provinces.[2]
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Datia had formerly been a state in theBundelkhand region founded in 1626. The ruling family wereRajputs of theBundela clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja ofOrchha.[2]
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AfterIndia's independence in 1947, the Maharaja of Datiaacceded unto theDominion of India; it later merged with theUnion of India. Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state ofVindhya Pradesh in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state ofMadhya Pradesh within the Union of India.
The following rulers carried the title "Rao":
The following rulers carried the title "Raja":
The following rulers carried the title "Maharaja Sir Lokendra".[3] The title came into effect from the year 1877:
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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]
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