| Conventional Long Name: | Tarrauhan State |
| Common Name: | Tarrauhan |
| Nation: | British India |
| Status Text: | Jagir |
| Year Start: | 1812 |
| Year End: | 1948 |
| Event End: | Independence of India |
| S1: | India |
| Flag S1: | Flag of India.svg |
| Image Map Caption: | Tarrauhan (Tarahwan) in the Imperial Gazetteer of India |
| Stat Area1: | 67.33 |
| Stat Year1: | 1901 |
| Stat Pop1: | 3,178 |
| Today: | Uttar Pradesh, India |
Taraon, also spelt Tarrauhan,Tarahwan,and Tarahuhān, was a jagir in India during the British Raj.[1] It had an area of 67 square miles and its population was distributed in 13 villages. The capital of the state was in Pathraundi, located about 1.5 km from Karwi railway station of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.[2] [3]
Tarrauhan Estate was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1948. The area covered by the former state is now in modern Chitrakoot district, at the southern end of Uttar Pradesh.(transfer to Uttar Pradesh occurred on 26 Jan 1950).
Tarrauhan was founded in 1812 and was located in Tarrauhan Fort, which had been a former possession of the Rajas of Panna State. It was one of the Chaube Jagirs.In 1884, the Jagidar ceded land for the state jhansi manipur railway.[4] It was under the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency until 1896 when it was transferred to the Baghelkhand Agency. In 1931 Tarrauhan was transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.
Tarrauhan's rulers bore the title 'Chaube(choubey)'.
