Alirajpur State Explained

Native Name:	अलीराजपुर रियासत
Conventional Long Name:	Alirajpur State
Common Name:	Alirajpur
Nation:	British India
Subdivision:	Princely State
Capital:	Alirajpur
Year Start:	1437
Year End:	1948
Event End:	Accession of Dominion of India
S1:	India
Flag S1:	Flag of India.svg
Image Map Caption:	Alirajpur State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
Stat Area1:	2165.24
Stat Year1:	1941
Stat Pop1:	112,754

Alirajpur State was formerly a princely state of India, administratively under the Bhopawar Agency subdivision of the Central India Agency. The state covered an area of 2165 square kilometres, with a population of 50,185 in 1901 and its capital at Alirajpur. The average revenue of the state was Rs.100,000 in 1901.^[1]

History

The early history of the state is not very clear, the founder of the state was either Anand Deo or Ude Deo. The state got its name from the fort of Ali and the capital of Rajpur. The rulers of Alirajpur claim to be Rathore's from the royal family of Jodhpur, however this claim is not accepted by the Maharaja's of Jodhpur. The state came under British rule in 1817.^[2] ^[3] The last ruler of Ali Rajpur was Surendra Singh, who subsequently served as the Ambassador of India to Spain in the 1980s.^[4] After Indian independence in 1947, Alirajpur 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 1 November 1956.

The state flag consisted of 12 red and white horizontal stripes. The Raja had a personal flag with five stripes of different colors.^[5]

Alirajpur State is the birth place of the Indian revolutionary from the Indian struggle against the British Rule, Chandra Shekhar Azad.

Rulers

Ranas

1437 - 1440 Anand Deo (d. 1440)
1440 - .... Pratap Deo
.... - .... Chanchal Deo
.... - .... Gugal Deo
.... - .... Bachchharaj Deo
.... - .... Dip Deo
.... - .... Pahad Deo I
.... - .... Udai Deo
.... - 1765 Pahad Deo II (d. 1765)
1765 - 1818 Pratap Singh I (d. 1818)
1818 Musafir Makrani
1818 - 17 Mar 1862 Jashwant Singh (usurper) (b. 1818 - d. 1862)
1818 - 1839 Musafir Makrani -Manager
1862 - 1869 Gang Deo (b. c.1845 - d. 1871)
1869 - 29 Oct 1881 Rup Deo (b. 1847 - d. 1881)
1869 - 1873 Muhammad Najaf Khan -Superintendent
Shamsuddin Makrani Superintendent of Police alirajpur State
1881 - 16 Aug 1890 Bijai Singh (b. 1881 - d. 1890)
16 Aug 1890 – 14 Feb 1891 Interregnum
14 Feb 1891 - 1911 Pratap Singh II (b. 1881 - d. af. 1950) (installed Mar 1892)

Rajas

1911 - 1941 Pratap Singh II (s.a.) (from 3 Jun 1933, Sir Pratap Singh II)(personal style of Maharaja from 1941)
1941 - 23 Oct 1941 Fateh Singh (b. 1904 - d. 1941)
23 Oct 1941 – 15 Aug 1947 Surendra Singh (b. 1923 - d. 1996)
23 Oct 1941 – 15 Aug 1947 Sir Pratap Singh -Regent (s.a.)

Notes and References

Web site: Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 8, page 147 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library.
Book: Gujarat State Gazetteer. Government Press. 1989. 3. Alirajpur, Baria and Jhabua, which entered into treaties in 1817 AD were placed under the Bhopawar sub-agency.
Web site: Digital South Asia Library. dsal.uchicago.edu. 22 March 2020. 7 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210807085504/https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/text.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_231.gif. dead.
Web site: Alirajpur Princely State (11 gun salute) . 21 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180316151733/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/a/alirajpur.html . 16 March 2018 . dead .
Web site: Indian Princely States before 1947 A-J. www.worldstatesmen.org. 2 June 2023.