SURGUJA NON SALUTE STATE
Surguja
state is formerly Chota Nagpur State,Chhatisgarh StatesAgency, now in Madhya
Pradesh State , area of state was 6,055 Sq Miles comprising of 14 villages and the
population of state was 5,02,000 in 1931.Privy purse of state at the time of
accession on 1 January 1948 was Rs.1,45,300.
Surguja State,
was one of the main princely states of Central India during the period of the British Raj, even though it was not entitled to any gun salute. Formerly it was placed under the Central
India Agency, but in
1905 it was transferred to the Eastern States
Agency.The state spread
over a vast mountainous area inhabited by many different
people groups such as
the Gond, Bhumij, Oraon, Panika, Korwa, Bhuiya, Kharwar, Munda, Chero, Rajwar, Nagesia and Santal.[1] Its former territory lies in the present-day state
of Chhattisgarh and its capital was the town
of Ambikapur, now the capital of Surguja district.
Court
Fee Stamps
:--
Type-7 - used in 1915, Overprint , “SURGUJA
/ STATE” on George V British India Court Fee series of 1912. Maharaja
Raghunath Saran Singh Deo
Eight Annas, Brown-Violet , Ref. # 76
Type-8 - used in 1937-47, size 76 x 34 mm.
, Perf. 14 , Overprinted with , “SURGUJA
/ STATE” on George VI British
India Court Fee series of 1937.
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