Ali Rajpur

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Ali Rajpur is a city in Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. It was formerly princely state of India, administratively under the Bhopawar Agency subdivision of the Central India Agency. The state covered an area of 2165 square kilometers, with a population of 50,185 in 1901. Its Hindu rulers were styled “Raja”, and were entitled to an 11-gun salute. The flag consisting of 12 red and white horizontal stripes.

The principality was founded in the 1437 by the [[Rathore] dynasty.　The last ruler of Ali Rajpur was Surendra Singh、, who　was subsequently Ambassador of India to Spain in the 1980s.　After Indian independence in 1947, Ali Rajpur acceded to the Union of India, and the principality was incorporated into the new state of Madhya Bharat, which subsequently became Madhya Pradesh state on November 1, 1956.