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SECUNDERABAD                                (BRITISH  DIRECT RULE TERRITORY) Secunderabad  is the twin city of  Hyderabad  in the  Indian  state of  Telangana . Named after  Sikandar Jah , the third  Nizam  of the  Asaf Jahi dynasty , Secunderabad was established in 1806 as a British  cantonment . Although both the cities are together referred to as the twin cities,  Hyderabad  and Secunderabad have different histories and cultures, with Secunderabad having developed directly under British rule until 1948, and  Hyderabad  as the capital of the  Nizams '  princely state of Hyderabad .                   Modern Secunderabad was founded as a British  cantonment  after  Nizam   Asaf Jah II  was defeated by the  British East India Company . He was then forced to sign the 1798  Treaty of Subsidiary Alliance [10] [11]  to get the favor of British troops camped in the village of Ulwul, north-east of  Hussain Sagar , the lake that separates Secunderabad from its twin city Hyderabad. In 1

  SAURASHTRA Saurashtra,  also known as  United State of Kathiawar , was a separate, western  State  within the  Union of India  from 1948 until 1956, on  Saurashtra alias Kathiawar  peninsula, with  Rajkot  as its capital, on territory now part of  Gujarat  state. The Saurashtra State was originally named the United State of Kathiawar. It was formed on 15 February 1948, out of approximately 200 large and small  Princely States  of the colonial  Baroda, Western India and Gujarat States Agency  of the  British raj  territory under direct colonial rule. The name of State was given after the  Kathiawar  and  Saurahstra region  both of which generally denote the same geographical region of lands on the main peninsula of Gujarat. It was largely due to efforts and statesmanship of  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel  and the influence of  Mahatma Gandhi  that most of the States of Kathiawar had agreed to join  Union of India  and sign the  Instrument of Accession . This required a lot of Patel

MADRAS The  Madras Presidency , or the  Presidency of Fort St. George , and also known as  Madras Province , was an  administrative subdivision (presidency)  of  British India . At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of  southern India , including the whole of the Indian state of  Andhra Pradesh , and parts of  Tamil Nadu ,  Kerala ,  Karnataka ,  Telangana ,  Odisha  and the union territory of  Lakshadweep . The city of  Madras  was the winter capital of the Presidency and  Ootacamund  or Ooty, the summer capital. The  Island of Ceylon  was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a  Crown colony . Madras Presidency was neighboured by the  Kingdom of Mysore  on the northwest,  Kingdom of Kochi  on the southwest, and the  Kingdom of Hyderabad  on the north. Some parts of the presidency were also flanked by  Bombay Presidency  and  Madhya Pradesh  (formerly  Central Provinces and Berar ) .   THREE ANNAS   One Chuckram Court Fee stamp of Trava

  MADHYA BHARAT Madhya Bharat also known as Malwa Union, was an  Indian  state in west- central  India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the  Central India Agency , with Jivaji Rao Scindia as its Rajpramukh. It  comprised  25  former   princely   states with a total area 120176 Sq. Kms. Gwalior  was   the   winter   capital;   Indore  was   the   summer capital. On 1 November 1956, Madhya Bharat, together with the states of  Vindhya Pradesh   and  Bhopal State , was merged into  Madhya Pradesh . Map of Madhya Bharat in Red from 1948-1956 AD COURT  FEE  STAMPS   :- One  Anna, Red , Size 79 x 49 mm. , Perf. 11 Two  Annas (Do Aane), Yellowish Brown, Size 78 x 48 mm. Two  Annas (Do Aanna), Reddish Brown, Size 79 x 49 mm. . Perf. 9 ¼ Four  Annas (Char Aane), Reddish Brown, Size 78 x 49 mm. Four  Annas (Char Aanna), Dull Reddish Brown, Size 79 x 49 mm., Perf. 12 Eight  Annas (Aath Aane), Reddish Brown, Size 78 x 48 mm. , Perf. 11

BOMBAY Bombay Province , was an  administrative subdivision (presidency)  of  British India . Headquartered in the city of  Bombay , at its greatest extent, the presidency included the  Konkan ,  Nashik  and  Pune  divisions of the present-day  Indian state  of  Maharashtra . Bombay State  was a large  Indian  state created at the time of  India's Independence , with other regions being added to it in the succeeding years.  Bombay Presidency  (roughly equating to the present-day Indian state of Maharashtra, excluding South Maharashtra and  Vidarbha ) was merged with the  princely states  of the  Baroda, Western India and Gujarat  (the present-day Indian state of  Gujarat ) and  Deccan States  (which included parts of the present-day Indian states of Maharashtra and  Karnataka . On November 1, 1956, Bombay State was re-organized under the  States Reorganisation Act on linguistic lines, absorbing various territories including the  Saurashtra  and  Kutch  States, which ceased to