Piploda State was a 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 ...

 in India. It was ruled by Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

s of the Dodia

Dodia

Dodia is a genus of woolly bear moths found in subarctic tundra and taiga ecosystems. They belong to the tribe Callimorphini of subfamily Arctiinae....

 clan. The state had an area of 91 km². Piploda was a dependency of Jaora

Jaora

Jaora is a city and a municipality in Ratlam district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Jaora is located in the Malwa region, between Ratlam and Neemuch. It was the capital of the princely state of Jaora before independence...

 state until 1924, when it became a separate state. The rulers acceded to the Government of India

Government of India

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 on 15 June 1948, and Piploda became part of Ratlam 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.

Piploda was established in 1547 by Rawat Sawalsinghji.