Tori Fatehpur Explained

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.

History

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.

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Notes and References

  1. P. K. Bhattacharyya, Historical Geography of Madhya Pradesh from Early Records, P. 52
  2. Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  3. http://torifatehpur.blogspot.com/2010_05_01_archive.html Tori Fatehpur