Khilchipur princely state fiscal court fee/revenue stamp

 KHILCHIPUR                                                                    9 GUN  SALUTE  STATE                  

Khilchipur state was formerly central India States (Bhopal) Agency, now in Madhya Pradesh State , area of state was 707 Sq.Km. ,(283 villages) and population of state was 45,588 in 1931, Privy purse of state on the time of accession (15Th June.1948 ) was Rs.60,000.

Founded in 1544 by Dewan Ugra Sen, a Khichi Rajput, a section of the great Chauhan clan, who was forced by family dissensions to migrate from the Khichi capital of Gagraun. A grant of land was subsequently made to him by the Mughal Emperor, which included the adjoining Zirapur and Machalpur parganas, later a part of Indore State, and Shujalpur, later in Gwalior State.Khilchipur was formerly the capital of this princely state, under the Bhopal Agency of British India's Central India Agency. Its rulers were Khichi Rajputs of the Chauhan clan. The rulers acceded to the Government of India after India's independence in 1947, and the Khilchipur became part of the new state of Madhya Bharat. Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956.