Jodhpur State

Jodhpur State जोधपुर रियासत
Princely State of British India
1250–1949 →
Flag Coat of arms
Jodhpur State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
History
•	Established	1250
•	Independence of India	1949
Area
•	1931	93,424 km2 (36,071 sq mi)
Population
•	1931	2,125,000
	Density	22.7 /km2  (58.9 /sq mi)
Today part of		Rajasthan, India

View of Jodhpur palace.

Sardar Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur (c. 1900)

An old soldier who had been at the service of the Maharaja in the Daulat Khanat yard

Map of Rajputana Agency, of which State of Jodhpur was a part

Portrait of Naubat Khan Kalawant (A Jodhpur Prince) by Ustad Mansur,Mughal School, towards 1600.British Museum London

Posthumous Portrait of Maharaja Ajit Singh of Marwar, 1762. Brooklyn Museum.

Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar, ca. 1880. Attributed to Narsingh. The Brooklyn Museum.

Maharaja Jai Singh of Amber and Maharaja Gaj Singh of Marwar - Folio from the Amber Album, circa 1630 Painting

Jodhpur State was a princely state in the Marwar region from 1250 to 1949. Its capital was the city of Jodhpur since 1450.

Covering an area of 90,554 km² (34,963 sq mi), Jodhpur State was the largest state under the Rajputana Agency. Its last ruler signed the accession to join the Indian Union on 7 April 1949 and the state was formally dissolved on 1 November 1956.^[1]

History

The rulers of the Indian princely state of Jodhpur were of an ancient dynasty established in the 8th century. However, the dynasty's fortunes were made by Rao Jodha, first of the rulers of the Rathore dynasty in Jodhpur in 1459.

The state was incorporated into the Mughal Empire during the reign of the Emperor Akbar. During the late 17th century it was under the strict control of the Emperor Aurangzeb, but the ruling house of Rathore was allowed to remain semi-autonomous in their territory. The British had no role in the state's affairs until the 1830s, when the Raja at that time, Man Singh, entered into a subsidiary alliance, after which the Rajas of Marwar (or Jodhpur) continued as rulers of a princely state.

Following Indian independence in 1947 Maharaja Hanwant Singh, the last ruler of Jodhpur state, delayed signing the Instrument of Accession to India. He even briefly considered acceding to Pakistan, for Jodhpur shared a border with the new nation and he had been personally given assurance of access to sea ports in Pakistan by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Finally, he agreed to the accession of his state to the new Dominion of India, but not before a last-minute dramatic scene.^[2][3]

Rulers: House of Rathore

Rulers 1250–1459

Rulers 1459–1947

• Silver Shaded Rows signify the Mughal Empire.
• Yellow Shaded Rows signify the British Indian Empire

Thikanas

Jiliya or Abhaypura was a Princely Thikana of the State of Jodhpur.

See also

• Political integration of India
• Marwar region
• Naubat Khan

References

• Jodhpur, Published by [s.l.], 1933.
• Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur and His Times (1803–1843 A.D.), by Padmaja Sharma. Published by Shiva Lal Agarwala, 1972.
• The Administration of Jodhpur State, 1800–1947 A.D., by Nirmala M. Upadhyaya. International Publishers, 1973.
• Marwar under Jaswant Singh, (1658–1678): Jodhpur hukumat ri bahi, by Satish Chandra, Raghubir Sinh, Ghanshyam Datt Sharma. Published by Meenakshi Prakashan, 1976.
• Jodhpur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer: Desert Kingdoms, by Kishore Singh, Karoki Lewis. Lustre Press Ltd. 1992.
• The House of Marwar: The Story of Jodhpur, by Dhananajaya Singh. Lotus Collection, Roli Books, 1994. ISBN 81-7436-002-6.
• Modern Indian Kingship: Tradition, Legitimacy & Power in Jodhpur, by Marzia Balzani. Published by James Currey Limited, 2003. ISBN 0-85255-931-3.
• Jodhpur and the Later Mughals, AD 1707–1752, by R. S. Sangwan. Published by Pragati Publications, 2006.

External links

• Media related to Jodhpur State at Wikimedia Commons
• The Maharaja Gaj Singh II Of Marwar-Jodhpur (present maharaja), Official website
• Jodhpur History and Genealogy at RoyalArk

Coordinates: 26°28′N 73°02′E / 26.467°N 73.033°E / 26.467; 73.033