Jigni State was a

princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...

of the Bundelkhand Agency of the

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. It was a small Sanad state of about 82.87 km² with a population of 4,297 inhabitants in 1901. The state was surrounded by the Hamirpur and

Jhansi district Jhansi district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Jhansi is the district headquarters. The district is bordered on the north by Jalaun District, to the east by Hamirpur and Mahoba districts, to the ...

s of the United Provinces. Its capital was at Jigni, also known as Jigini.Jigini Village in Rath (Hamirpur) Uttar Pradesh
/ref> It is a small town —1,770 inhabitants in 1901— located near the confluence of the Dhasan and the

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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 165.
/ref> in present-day Rath

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of Hamirpur district,

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History

Jigni State was founded as a

jagir A jagir ( fa, , translit=Jāgir), also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar (Zamindar) system. It developed during the Islamic rule era of the Indian subcontinent, start ...

in 1730 by Rao Padam Singh, a

Rajput Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Ra ...

of the Bundela clan. He was a son of Chhatrasal, the founder of Panna State. Originally the ''jagir'' had been larger, but its size was much reduced during the

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invasion in the last half of the eighteenth century. Jigni became a British protectorate in 1810 under the rule of Pirthi Singh. Rao Bhupendra Vijai Singh, the last ruler of Jigni State signed the instrument of accession to India in 1947, the state becoming part of the

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on 1 January 1950.

Rulers

The ruling family were members of the Bundela clan of

s. The rulers used the title of ''

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Title ''Rao''

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Jigni – Indian Rajputs
{{MP Princely States Princely states of India Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh Rajputs 1730 establishments in India 1950 disestablishments in India

History

Rulers

Title ''Rao''

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