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Surguja princely state court fee / revenue stamp

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  GondBhumijOraonPanikaKorwaBhuiyaKharwarMundaCheroRajwarNagesia 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.

Twelve Annas, Plum ,  Ref. # 87
One Rupee and Eight Annas, Plum ,  Ref. # 90 

Type-10 - used in 1944-47, Size 77 X 36 mm. , Perf. 11 , Portrait of Raja
One Anna, Brown-Violet ,  Ref. # 101 
 



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