PATIALA 17 GUN SALUTE STATE Patiala State was a self-governing princely state outside British India during the British Raj period in the Indian sub-continent. Patiala was one of the Phulkian States. When the British left India in 1947, they abandoned their subsidiary alliances with the princely states , and the Maharajah of Patiala acceded to the new Union ... Patiala state was established in 1763 by Baba Ala Singh, a Jat Sikh chieftain, who laid the foundation of the Patiala fort known as Qila Mubarak , around 'which the present city of Patiala is built. After the ...