19 Facts About Gwalior State

Under Mahadji Sindhia Gwalior State became a leading power in Central India, and dominated the affairs of the confederacy.

In 1936, the Gwalior State residency was separated from the Central India Agency, and made answerable directly to the Governor-General of India.

In 1231 Iltutmish captured Gwalior State and from then till 1398 it was a part of Delhi Sultanate.

Founder of the ruling house of Gwalior State was Ranoji Sindhia, who belonged to the Shinde or Sindhia house which traced its descent from a family of which one branch held the hereditary post of patil in Kanherkhed, a village 16 miles east of Satara.

Gwalior State left three legitimate sons, Jayappa, Dattaji, and Jyotiba, and two illegitimate sons, Tukoji and Mahadji.

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Gwalior State was followed by his son Jankoji Rao Scindia, who was taken prisoner at the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761 and put to death, and Mahadji succeeded.

Gwalior State was originally from the Duchy of Savoy, a native of Chambery, who had served under Lord Clare in the famous Irish Brigade at Fontenoy and elsewhere and who after many vicissitudes, including imprisonment by the Turks, reached India and for a time held a commission in the 6th Madras Infantry.

Gwalior State came under the influence of Sarje Rao Ghatke, whose daughter he had married.

In 1805, under the new policy of Lord Cornwallis, Gohad and Gwalior were restored, and the Chambal River was made the northern boundary of the state, while certain claims on Rajput states were abolished, the British government at the same time binding itself to enter into no treaties with Udaipur, Jodhpur, Kotah, or any chief tributary to Sindhia in Malwa, Mewar, or Marwar.

Gwalior State did not act up to his professions, and connived at the retention of the fort of Asirgarh, which had been ceded by the treaty.

Gwalior State returned after an interval and lived at Gwalior until her death in 1862.

Gwalior State succeeded under the name of Jayajirao Sindhia, the Mama Sahib being chosen as regent.

Gwalior State filled all appointments with his relatives, and matters rapidly passed from bad to worse, ending in the assemblage of large bodies of troops who threatened an attack on Sironj, where Mama Sahib was then residing.

On 17 June 1858 Gwalior was captured by Sir Hugh Rose and Maharaja sri Jayajirao was reinstated.

Gwalior State was a very good artist of Gwalior Gharana classical music and opened a school for learning music.

Gwalior State took a deep and active interest in the administration of the state, and had a comprehensive grasp of the work done in each department.

Gwalior State served as Rajpramukh until 31 October 1956, when the state was merged into Madhya Pradesh.

The Gwalior State Darbar was composed of many nobles like Jagirdars, Sardars, Istamuradars, Mankaris, Thakurs and Zamindars.

Northern Gwalior State comprised seven zilas or districts: Gwalior State Gird, Bhind, Sheopur, Tanwarghar, Isagarh, Bhilsa, and Narwar.