CHHATARPUR 11 GUN
SALUTE STATE
Chhatarpur was
founded in 1785. It is named after the Bundela Rajput leader Chhatrasal, the founder of Bundelkhand independence, and contains
his cenotaph. The state was ruled by his
descendants until 1785. At that time the Ponwar clan of the Rajputs took control of Chhatarpur. The
state was guaranteed to Kunwar Sone Singh
Ponwar in
1806 by the British Raj. In 1854 Chhatarpur would have
lapsed to the British government for want of direct heirs under the doctrine of lapse, but was conferred on Jagat Raj as a
special act of grace. The Ponwar Rajas
ruled a princely state with an
area of 1,118 Square miles or 900 Sq.Km and population was 156,139 in
1901, which was part of the Bundelkhand agency of Central India. Privy purse of state was Rs. 5,20,000
at the time of accession in to independent India on
1 January 1950.
In 1901 the town
of Chhatarpur had a population of 10,029, a high school and manufactured paper
and coarse cutlery. The state also contained the British cantonment of Nowgaon. After the independence of India
in 1947, the Rajas of Chhatarpur acceded to India, and Chhatarpur, together
with the rest of Bundelkhand Agency, became part of the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh. Vindhya Pradesh was merged into the
state of Madhya Pradesh in 1956.
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