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Satara State

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Satara State
1818 (1818)–1849 (1849)
Flag of Satara State
Satara State in 1832
Satara State in 1832
StatusPrincely state of the British East India Company
CapitalSatara
Official languagesMarathi
Religion
Hinduism and other minority religions
GovernmentMonarchy
Chhatrapati/Raja 
• 1818 – 1839
Pratap Singh (first)
• 1839 – 1849
Shahaji (last)
History 
• Established
1818 (1818)
• Disestablished
1849 (1849)
CurrencyRupee, Paisa, Shivrai
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Maratha Confederacy
Company rule in India
Today part ofIndia

The Satara State was a Maratha rump state in India created after the fall of the Maratha Confederacy in 1818 following the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and annexed by the British in 1849 using the Doctrine of lapse. The state was ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty, descendants of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha kingdom.

The first Raja of the state was Pratap Singh who was installed on the throne by the British after they defeated Peshwa Bajirao II in 1818. Pratap Singh was deposed in 1838. His brother, Shahaji succeeded him but died without a natural heir in 1848. At that time, the East India Company government refused to accept Shahaji's adopted son as his successor under the company's Doctrine of lapse, a policy introduced by the then Governor, Lord Dalhousie, and absorbed the territory into the growing British dominion.[1][2]

Territory

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The state comprised the modern day Satara district, and parts of the Pune district, the Sangli district, the Solapur district and the Bijapur district, Karnataka.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kulkarni, Sumitra (1995). The Satara raj, 1818-1848 : a study in history, administration, and culture (1st ed.). New Delhi: Mittal Publications. pp. 2–3. ISBN 9788170995814.
  2. ^ Ramusack, Barbara N. (2007). The Indian princes and their states (Digitally print. version. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-0521039895. Retrieved 13 October 2016.