Santrampur State (Sant State, also spelt Sunth and Soanth) is a former state located in the present-day state of

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. It covered an area of approximately and was bounded on the north by the dominions of

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and

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in Rajputana. On the east was the sub division of Jhalod in the Panch Mahals. On the south it touched the small state of Sanjeli while on the west it was bounded by the State of

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.The State enjoyed a hereditary salute of 9 gun and 11 gun local salute. The rulers of Santrampur are

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. They claim descent from the Mahipavat branch of the famous

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dynasty.

History

According to bardic history, the state was founded in c. 1255 by an individual named Sant who had been forced to leave Jhalod upon the military defeat of his father, Jalamsingh. Sant's brother, Limdev, founded the nearby state of Kadana. In 1753, The Maharawal of

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, killed the three sons of

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Ratansinhjii and tried to capture the throne of Sant State; the fourth son who was an infant named Badansinghji was hidden by

Kolis The Koli is an Indian caste found in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir states in India. Koli is an agriculturist caste of Gujarat but in coastal areas the ...

and grew up in a Koli family. The Maharawal annexed the Sant State in Banswara State and established his army in Sant. After several years, when Badansinghji reached maturity, the Kolis of Malwa attacked the army of Banswara. The Khant Kolis of Malwa defeated the army of Maharawal and threw it out of Sant state. After that, Kolis of Malwa established Rana Badansinghji Pawar at the throne of Sant State. In 1803, Sant State entered into a defensive treaty with the British Government, but the latter subsequently reneged on the treaty under Lord Cornwallis' policy of not entering alliances with Indian states. Thereafter, on 10 August 1819, Sant State was party to an agreement between

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and Lunawada mediated by the British, which effectively made the state a British vassal. The state was placed under the administration of the Rewa Kantha

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in 1825. In 1913, the state was rocked by an

adivasi The Adivasi refers to inhabitants of Indian subcontinent, generally tribal people. The term is a Sanskrit word coined in the 1930s by political activists to give the tribal people an indigenous identity by claiming an indigenous origin. The term ...

(

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) uprising led by Govindgiri. The last ruler of Sant State signed the accession to the Indian Union on 10 June 1948, by which the state ceased to exist and merged into

, and was assigned a

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of 112,000 Rupees.

Rulers

Rulers of Sant belongs to the Mahipavat branch of the

clan of the

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 ...

s.''Memoranda on Native States in India, Together with a List of Independent Ruling Chiefs, Chiefs of Frontier States, and Other Notables with Their Proper Forms of Address''. Superintendent Government Print., India. 1911. The state is said to have been founded in the year 1255 by Sunth. The Ruler of Sant is entitled to be received by the His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India and to be received and visited by the His Excellency the Governor of Bombay. The ruler of Sant is titled as Maharana with the style of His Highness. His Highness the Maharana of Sant is entitled to a salute of 9 guns.

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