Nagpur kingdom
The Kingdom of Nagpur was an Indian kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries. It came under the rule of the Marathas of the Bhonsle dynasty in the mid-18th century and became part of the Maratha Confederacy . The city of Nagpur was the capital of the state.
Kingdom of Nagpur | |||||||||||||||
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The Marathas of Nagpur at their greatest extent. | |||||||||||||||
| Status | State Within the Maratha Confederacy (1729–1818) Protectorate of the East India Company (1818–1853) | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Nagpur | ||||||||||||||
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Raja | |||||||||||||||
• 1739–1755 (first) | Raghoji I | ||||||||||||||
• 1818–1853 (last) | Raghoji III | ||||||||||||||
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| 1739 | |||||||||||||||
• British Protectorate | 1818 | ||||||||||||||
• Death of the last ruler, Raghuji III | 1853 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
| 217,560 km2 (84,000 sq mi) | |||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand (India) | ||||||||||||||
After the Third Anglo-Maratha War, it became a princely state of the British Empire in 1818, and was annexed to British India in 1853 becoming Nagpur Province.
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