BAONI 11 GUN SALUTE STATE
FLAG COAT OF ARMS
Baoni
State was a princely state in India during
the British
Raj.It
was a small sanad state, the
only Muslim-ruled one
in Bundelkhand
Agency.
Its ruler was granted the right to an 11 gun salute. The Baoni
Royal Family claim to be descendants of
the Asaf
Jahi dynasty
of Hyderabad, tracing its
origins to Abu
Bakr,
the First Islamic Caliph.
Baoni was located
in the Betwa-Yamuna doab, Uttar Pradesh, with Kadaura as its
seat of government. The state was bounded on the north by the district of Cawnpore, in the west by
the district of Jalaun and to the
south and east by the district of Hamirpur of
the United Provinces —as well
as a little part in the south-east by Beri State. The word
'Baoni' originated in the Hindustani
language word Baon,
meaning 52 (fifty-two), and referring to the number of villages that were
included in the original sanad at the time when it was
granted. Baoni had a population of 19,780 inhabitants in 1901, of whom 87%
were Hindu and 12%
Muslim. Area of the State was 313 Sq. Km.
Baoni State was founded in
1784 by Imad al-Din al-Mulk Ghazi Khan, from a branch of the Asaf Jahi dynasty
related to the Nizam, and Wazir of
the Mughal
Empire.
At that time he made a deal with the Maratha Peshwa and
received a jagir of 52 villages
near Kalpi. The state
became a British
protectorate in
1806, following the defeat of the Maratha
Confederacy.
The capital was moved from Kalpi to Kadaura after
1815.The last ruler, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the instrument
of accession to
the Indian
Union on
15 August 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States
of Vindhya
Pradesh on
2 April 1948, remaining as head of state until 31 December 1949.
LOCATION KADAURA (HEAD QUARTERS OF BAONI STATE ) on MAP
Court Fee Stamps:-
Type-5 - Used in 1940-45AD,
size 81x38mm. Imperf. , Wove paper.
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