Baghal
Encyclopedia
Baghal, covering an area of 312 km² and currently a part of Himachal Pradesh
state
, was one of the Princely state
s of India
during the period of the British Raj
. The state was founded by Rana Sabha Chand in the year 1643, and was acceded to India on 15 April 1948.
The capital of Baghal was Arki
.
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...
, was one of the Princely state
Princely state
A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...
s of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
during the period of the British Raj
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
. The state was founded by Rana Sabha Chand in the year 1643, and was acceded to India on 15 April 1948.
The capital of Baghal was Arki
Arki, India
Arki is a town and a Nagar panchayat in Solan district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The town is notable for its fort built in late 18th century when Arki was the capital of the erstwhile hill state of Baghal.-History:...
.
Rulers
- Rana Jagat Singh (1st time) 1778 - 1803
- Occupied by Nepal 1803 - 1815.
- Rana Jagat Singh (2nd time) 1815 - 1828
- Rana Shiv Saran 1828 - 1840
- Rana Kishan Singh 1840 - 12 Mar 1875 (Rana Kishan Singh personally styled himself as Raja in 1860.)
- Raja Kishan Singh 12 Mar 1875 - 1877
- Raja Moti Singh 1877
- Raja Dhyan Singh 1877 - 1904
- Raja Tikka Bikram Singh (b. c.1892 - d. ...) 1904 - 1922
- Raja Surendra Singh (b. 1909) 14 Oct 1922 - 1945
- Raja Rajendra Singh (b. 1928) 1945 - 15 Aug 1947
External links
- Baghal - the Princely state
- http://rulers.org/indstat1.html