Saraikela State

Saraikela State also spelt Seraikela, Saraikella or Seraikella, was a odiaprincely state in India during the British Raj, in what is now the Seraikela-Kharsawan district of the Jharkhand state. Its capital was at Saraikela.

The state had an area of 1163 km which yielded an average revenue of Rs. 92,000 in 1901, and was one of the nine Chota Nagpur States, a group of small, non-salute states (minor princely states), under the authority of the governor of Bengal Presidency. The last ruler of the state, Raja Aditya Pratap Singh Deo, signed the merger agreement acceding to the Indian Union on 18 May 1948.