SACHIN NON SALUTE
STATE
The Sachin
State (Gujarati: સચીન રિયાસત; Urdu: سچن ریاست) was a princely state belonging
to the Surat Agency,
former Khandesh Agency, of the Bombay Presidency during
the era of the British Raj.
Its capital was in Sachin, the southernmost
town of present-day Surat district of Gujarat State.
Sachin state
was founded on 6 June 1791. Though over 85% of the subjects were Hindu, the
state was ruled by Sunni Muslims of the Siddi dynasty
of Danda-Rajpuri and Janjira State. The Siddi dynasty is of Abyssinian (Habesha) origin.
Sachin State
was under the protection of the Maratha Peshwa until it became a British
protectorate. It had
its own cavalry, currency, and stamped paper, as well as a state band that
included Africans.
Fatima
Begum (1892–1983),
one of the early superstars in Indian cinema and India's first female film director, was
allegedly married to Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III of Sachin
State. But Sachin royal family sources cast a veil over this claiming no
record of a marriage or contract having taken place between the Nawab and
Fatima Bai or of the Nawab having officially recognised their children, Sultana, Zubeida and Shehzadi, as his own. Sultana, the daughter of Fatima Begum, became a leading figure in
early Indian movies. Zubeida, leading actress of India's first
talkie film Alam Ara (1931), was her younger sister.
Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III, Sachin State's last ruler, signed the accession to join the Indian Union on 8 March 1948. The state then became part of Surat district in Bombay Province.
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