Nagod State (also known as 'Nagode' and 'Nagodh') 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, ...

colonial India Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices. The search for the wealth and prosper ...

, located in modern

Satna district Satna District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Satna is the district headquarters. The district has an area of 7,502 km², and a population of 22,28,935(2011 census), 20.63% of which is urban. The distric ...

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

. The state was known as 'Unchahara' from the name of

Unchehara Unchehara is a town and a nagar panchayat in Satna district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is a block and one of six ''tehsils'' of Satna district. The town lies in the vicinity of Vindhya Range in Central India. Kabir Math and Raj Ma ...

its original capital until the 18th century.

History

In 1344, the city of Uchchakalpa, present-day Unchahara, was founded by Rajput Raja Veerraj Judeo when he seized the fort of Naro from "the others". In 1720 the state was renamed

Nagod Nagod or Nagaud is a town and a nagar panchayat in Satna district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is located from the town of Satna. It is the administrative headquarters of Nagod Tehsil.It is believed that it was a small state owned b ...

after its new capital. In 1807 Nagod was a tributary to Panna and was included in the sanad granted to that state. In 1809, however, Lal Sheoraj Singh was recognized and confirmed in his territory by a separate sanad granted to him. Nagod State became a British protectorate after the treaty of Bassein in 1820. Raja Balbhadra Singh was deposed in 1831 for murdering his brother. The state fell into debt and in 1844 the administration was taken over by the British owing to economic mismanagement. The ruler was loyal during the

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in 1857 and was granted the

pargana Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...

of Dhanwahl. In 1862 the Raja was granted a sanad allowing adoption and in 1865 local rule was reestablished. Nagod State was a part of

Baghelkhand Agency The Bagelkhand Agency was a British political unit which managed the relations of the British with a number of autonomous princely states existing outside British India, namely Rewa (princely state), Rewa and 11 minor states, of which the most pro ...

from 1871 till 1931, when it was transferred along with other smaller states back to

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. The last Raja of Nagod, HH Shrimant Mahendra Singh, signed the accession of his state to the Indian Union on 1 January 1950.

Rulers

The Nagod

Pratihar The Gurjara-Pratihara was a dynasty that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century. They ruled first at Ujjain and later at Kannauj. The Gurjara-Pratiharas were instrumental in containing Arab armies moving east of the ...

dynasty ruling family were members were entitled to a hereditary gun

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of 9 guns.Princely States of India
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Rajas

*1685 – 1721 Fakir Shah *1720 – 1748 Chain Singh *1748 – 1780 Ahlad Singh *1780 – 1818 Lal Sheoraj (Shivraj) Singh (b. 1777 – d. 1818) *1818 – 1831 Balbhadra Singh *1831 – 23 February 1874 Raghubindh (Raghvendra) Singh (b. 1821 – d. 1874) *23 Feb 1874 – 4 November 1922 Jadubindh (Jadvendra) Singh (b. 1855 – d. 1922) * 4 November 1922 – 26 February 1926 Narharendra Singh (b. 1911 – d. 1926) *26 Feb 1926 – 15 August 1947 Mahendra Singh

References

{{MP Princely States Princely states of India Satna district Rajputs 14th-century establishments in India 1344 establishments in Asia 1950 disestablishments in India

History

Rulers

Rajas

See also

References