Maihar princely state court fee/revenue stamp

MAIHAR 9 GUN SALUTE STATE

Maihar C.I. state is formerly Central India States (Baghelkhand ) Agency. now in Madhya Pradesh State. Area of the state was 1054 Sq.Kms. and population of the state was 68,991 in 1931. Privy purse of state at the time of accession on 1 April 1950 was Rs.56,500.

The state was founded in 1778 by Rajputs of the Kachwaha clan, who were granted land by the ruler of the nearby state of Orchha. From 1788 to 1790 Maihar State was occupied by Banda. The state became a princely state of British India in the early 19th century, and was administered as part of Bundelkhand Agency in the Central India Agency. In 1871 the eastern states of Bundelkhand Agency, including Maihar, were separated to form the new Bagelkhand Agency in Central India. In 1933 Maihar, along with ten other states in western Bagelkhand, were transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.

The state suffered severely from famine in 1896–1897. Maihar became a station on the East Indian Railway (now the West Central Railway) line between Satna and Jabalpur, 156 kilometres or 97 Miles north of Jabalpur. Extensive ruins of shrines and other buildings surround the town. As of 1940 it had a population of 79,558 and an area of 412 square miles. In 1948 Maihar was merged into India.

The Kachhwaha Rajputs claimed to be the ruling family of the princely state of Maihar. The territory was founded around 1778 by Beni Singh Hazuri, the grandson of Thakur Bhim Singh. He was granted land by the ruler of the adjacent state of Orchha. After the death of Beni Singh in the year 1788, Rajdhar, his son, succeeded him, who was later conquered by Ali Bahadur of Banda during the early 19th century. Later the state was reassigned to the younger son of Beni Singh Hazuri, Durjan Singh by Ali Bahadur. In the years 1806 and 1814, the British East India Company granted him sanads which confirmed him in the possession of his state. Later the territory was split between Bishan Singh and Prag Das, after his death in the year 1826. His elder son Bishan Singh succeeded in Maihar.