Barwani State http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_158.gif was a princely state

Princely state

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 in India. The seat was at Barwani

Barwani

Barwani , also known as Badwani, is a city and a municipality in Barwani District in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The city is situated near the left bank of the Narmada River, and is the administrative headquarter of Barwani District. It has served as the capital of the former princely state...

. The rulers, whose title was Rana

Rana

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, were Rajput

Rajput

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s of the Sesodia clan, descended from the ruling dynasty of Udaipur

Mewar

Mewar is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India. It includes the present-day districts of Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and some of the part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The region was for centuries a Rajput kingdom that later...

. Although the state lost most of its territory during the Maratha

Maratha

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 invasion in the 17th century, it never became tributary to any Maratha chief.

Under the British Raj

British Raj

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, Barwani was a state of the Bhopawar Agency

Bhopawar Agency

Bhopawar was an sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar , so the name . Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa regions of Central India , which included :-# Dhar.#*...

, a division of the Central India Agency

Central India Agency

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. The state lay in the Satpura Range

Satpura Range

The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat state near the Arabian Sea coast, running east through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to Chhattisgarh. The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east-west ranges divide the...

 south of the Narmada River

Narmada River

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. It had an area of 3051 km² (1,178 sq mi) and a population, in 1901, of 76,136. The inhabitants were predominantly Bhil

Bhil

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 tribals. The forests were under a British official.

After India's independence in 1947, the Rana of Barwani acceded to India, and Barwani became part of the Nimar District of Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat , also known as Malwa Union was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jivaji Rao Scindia as its Rajpramukh...

 state. Madhya Bharat was merged into Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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 on 1 November 1956.

It was named Avasgarh http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_158.gif earlier.

Barwani State was an 11 Gun salute state

Salute state

A Salute state was a princely state in India during the time of British rule which had been granted a gun salute by the British Crown ; i.e., the protocollary privilege for its ruler to be greeted - originally by Royal Navy ships, later also on land - with a number of gun shots, as recognition of...

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Ranas of Shishodhya dynasty

• 1675 - 1700 Jodh Singh (b. ... - d. 1700)
• 1700 - 1708 Parbat Singh (b. ... - d. 1708)
• 1708 - 1730 Mohan Singh I (b. ... - d. 1731)
• 1730 - 1760 Anup Singh (b. ... - d. 1760)
• 1760 - 1794 Umed Singh (b. ... - d. 1794)
• 1794 - 1839 Mohan Singh II (b. ... - d. 1839)
• 1839 - 1861 Jashwant Singh (1st time) (b. ... - d. 1880)
• 1861 - 1873 vacant
• 1873 - 1880 Jashwant Singh (2nd time) (s.a.)
• 15 Aug 1880 - 1894 Indrajit Singh (b. ... - d. 1894)
• 14 Dec 1894 - 21 Apr 1930 Ranjit Singh (b. 1888 - d. 1930)
• 21 Apr 1930 - 15 Aug 1947 Devi Sahib Singhji (b. 1922 - d. 2007)