Tori Fatehpur ( hi, टोडी फतेहपुर or टोडी फ़तेहपुर), also known as Tori, 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, ...
in India during the
British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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or Direct rule in India,
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. It was one of the
Hasht-Bhaiya
The Hasht-Bhaiya ( hi, आठभैया meaning 'Eight Brothers') (e)states were a group of jagirs (small feudatory estates, formally ranking below a proper princely state) of Central India during the period of the British Raj.
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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 ...
s, under the
Bundelkhand Agency of British India. Today it is part of
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 ...
in the state of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
.
History
Tori Fatehpur State was founded in the
Bundelkhand region in 1812 by a descendant of the royal family of
Orchha
Orchha is a town, near city of Niwari in Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh state, India. The town was established by rajput ruler Rudra Pratap Singh some time after 1501, as the seat of an eponymous former princely state of covering parts of c ...
Diwan Rai Singh of
Baragaon near
Jhansi. He had eight sons who were granted Jagirs, including Dhurwai, Bijna, and Tori Fatehpur.
Tori Fatehpur is on a hill near
Gursarai
Gursarai is a city and municipal board in the Jhansi district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gursarai is situated in the Garautha Tehsil. An emerging city in Jhansi District With having an old and established market, it's a lifeline for ...
, about 100 km from Jhansi. The fort on the hill is more than 300 years old.
Tori Fatehpur
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A part royal family started living in a town near Jhansi in the late 1880s after a massive drought and adapted a name “Biswari” for survival. After drought state lost all of its trade and other sources of fortune which resulted in downfall of state.
After Indian independence, on 1 January 1950, Tori Fatehpur acceded to the Republic of India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
and was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh.
See also
* Bundelkhand Agency
* Political integration of India
After the Indian independence in 1947, the dominion of India was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule, and the other under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal affairs remaining i ...
References
External links
Tori Fatehpur Princely State
Jhansi district
Princely states of Madhya Pradesh
1812 establishments in Asia
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