KURUNDWAD SENIOR ( NON SALUTE STATE
Kurundvad Senior, also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was of two Maratha princely states during the British Raj: 'Kurundvad Junior' and Kurundvad Senior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the Indian Union.
Kurundvad
Senior State was administered as part of the Deccan States Agency of the Bombay
Presidency. Its capital was at Kurundvad a
small town by the Panchganga
river in Kolhapur
district. The surface of was 479 Sq.km, larger than Kurundvad
Junior; its population in 1881 was 35,187 and by 1901 it reached 42,474
inhabitants, of which 34,000 were Hindu, 4,500 Muslim and 3,500 Jain.
The predecessor of the
two states, Kurundvad State, was founded in 1733 following a grant by the
Maratha Peshwa to Trimbakrao Patwardhan. A first division occurred in
1811. In 1819, Kurundvad State became a British protectorate.
On 5 April 1854,
Kurundvad State split into a Senior Branch and a Junior Branch. Although they
held different territories, the capital, Kurundvad, was shared between the two
states. The territory of both was widely scattered, forming enclaves within
other native states and British districts. Kurundvad
Senior retained 37 villages. The greater part of the state was formed by 25
villages located south of Belgaum.
Another 10 villages were located in the valley of the Kistna river,
mostly dispersed with swathes of British territory in
between, but a few of these villages were also located within the Sangli, Kolhapur and Miraj
States. The remaining two villages were particularly isolated from the
rest of the princely state. These were the villages of Tikota (an
enclave in Bijapur District, now in Karnataka)
and Wategaon village (an enclave in Satara
District, now in Maharashtra)
both separated from the rest of the territory.
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