Conventional Long Name: | Tori Fatehpur |
Common Name: | Tori-Fatehpur |
Nation: | British India |
Status Text: | Princely Estate (Jagir) |
Year Start: | 1690 |
Year End: | 1950 |
Event End: | Independence of India |
S1: | India |
Flag S1: | Flag of India.svg |
Image Map Caption: | Tori Fatehpur State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India |
Stat Area1: | 93 |
Stat Year1: | 1901 |
Stat Pop1: | 7,099 |
Tori Fatehpur (Hindi: टोडी फतेहपुर or टोडी फ़तेहपुर), also known as Tori, was a princely state in India during the British Raj. It was one of the Hasht-Bhaiya Jagirs, under the Bundelkhand Agency of British India.[1] Today it is part of Jhansi District in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Tori Fatehpur State was founded in the Bundelkhand region in 1812 by a descendant of the royal family of Orchha Diwan Rai Singh of Baragaon near Jhansi. He had eight sons who were granted Jagirs, including Dhurwai, Bijna, and Tori Fatehpur.[2]
Tori Fatehpur is on a hill near Gursarai, about 100 km from Jhansi. The fort on the hill is more than 300 years old.[3]
A part royal family started living in a town near Jhansi in the late 1880s after a massive drought and adapted a name “Biswari” for survival. After drought state lost all of its trade and other sources of fortune which resulted in downfall of state.
After Indian independence, on 1 January 1950, Tori Fatehpur acceded to the Republic of India and was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh.