Kurundvad Senior

Kurundwad State (1733 - 1854)
Kurundvad Senior State (1854 - 1948)
कुरुन्द्वाद
Princely State of British India
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History
 - Established 1733
 - Independence of India 1948
Area
 - 1901 479 km2 (185 sq mi)
Population
 - 1901 42,474 
Density 88.7 /km2  (229.7 /sq mi)
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Kurundvad Senior, also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was of two Maratha princely states during the British Raj: 'Kurundvad Junior' and Kurundvad Senior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the Indian Union.[1]

Kurundvad Senior State was administered as part of the Deccan States Agency of the Bombay Presidency.[2] Its capital was at Kurundvad a small town by the Panchganga river in Kolhapur district. The surface of was 479 km², larger than Kurundvad Junior; its population in 1881 was 35,187 and by 1901 it reached 42,474 habitants, of which 34,000 were Hindu, 4,500 Muslim and 3,500 Jain.

History

The predecessor of the two states, Kurundvad State, was founded in 1733 following a grant by the Maratha Peshwa to Trimbakrao Patwardhan. A first division occurred in 1811. In 1819 Kurundvad State became a British protectorate.

On 5 April 1854 Kurundvad State split into a Senior Branch and a Junior Branch. Although they held different territories, the capital, Kurundvad, was shared between the two states. The territory of both was widely scattered, forming enclaves within other native states and British districts. Kurundvad Senior retained 37 villages, of which Tikota (now part of Karnataka) was an enclave in Bijapur District and Wategaon another enclave in Satara District, both separated from the rest of the territory. The greater part of the state was formed by 25 villages located south of Belgaum. The remaining 10 villages were located in the valley of the Kistna river, with swathes of British territory in between, as well as in the Sangli, Kolhapur and Miraj States.

Rulers

The rulers of the state belonged to the Patwardhan dynasty and bore the title 'Rao'.[3]

Raos

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kurundwad Senior (Princely State)
  2. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  3. ↑ Princely States of India

Coordinates: 16°41′N 74°38′E / 16.683°N 74.633°E