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Pudukkotai princely state court fee / revenue stamp

PUDUKKOTAI                                                                11  GUN  SALUTE  STATE

 


 Pudukkottai state is formerly Madras Presidency, now in Tamil Nadu  State. Area of State was 1179 sq miles ,and population of state was 4,00,694 in 1931. Privy purse of state was Rs. 2,66,000 at the time of accession on 4 March 1948 .

Pudukkottai was a kingdom and later a princely state in British India, which existed from 1680 until 1948.

The Kingdom of Pudukkottai was founded in about 1680 as a feudatory of Ramnad and grew with subsequent additions from TanjoreSivaganga and Ramnad. One of the staunch allies of the British East India Company in the CarnaticAnglo-Mysore and Polygar wars, the kingdom was brought under the Company's protection in 1800 as per the system of Subsidiary Alliance. The state was placed under the control of the Madras Presidency from 1800 until 1 October 1923, when the Madras States Agency was abolished, and until 1948 it was under the political control of the Government of India.

It extended over the whole of the present-day Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu (with the exception of Aranthangi taluk which was then a part of Tanjore district). The town of Pudukkottai was its capital.

Court  Fee Stamp :-

Type- 3  :-  Used in 1922AD , Size 85x46mm., Perf.11 ½ . Wove paper.

Twelve Annas , Green, Ref. # 34 


Type- 8  :-  1939-44, Size 76x38mm., Perf.11 ½ . Wove paper.

Eight Annas , Pale Brown, Ref. # 83 

Revenue  Stamps :-  Non judicial

 Type- 11  :-  1924, Size 25x32mm., Wove paper

One Anna, Deep Red, Ref. # 111 

Type- 12  :- Used in  1925-30 AD, Size 32x41mm., Wove paper

One Anna, Bluish Red, Ref. # 121 

Type- 13  :-  Used in 1936-45 AD, Size 25x32mm., Perf. 11, Wove paper

One Anna, Deep Red, Ref. # 131 

 

Revenue/Receipt Stamps :-  

Type- 15  :-  1924, Size 30x25mm., Perf. 10 ,Wove paper

One Anna, Deep Red, Ref. # 151 

 

Non Judicial Stamp Paper of One and Half Rupee


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