Gangpur State
| Gangpur State | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princely StateofBritish India | |||||||
| 1804–1948 | |||||||
 Gangpur State in theImperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
• 1941 | 6,454 km2(2,492 sq mi) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
• 1941 | 398,171 | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1804 | ||||||
| 1948 | |||||||
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Gangpur State,also known asGangpore State,[1]was one of theprincely statesofIndiaduring the period of theBritish Raj.Until 1905 it was one of theChhota Nagpur States[2]under theEastern States Agency.
Covering an area of 6,454 km2,in 1941 Gangpur had a population of 398,171. The population was predominantlyOdiaspeaking.[3]It was made part ofIndiaon 1 January 1948. The capital of Gangpur State was modernSundargarhofOdisha.
History
[edit]According to tradition, the dynasty was established by Gangadhar Sekhar Deo, a scion of the Sekhar dynasty fromSikharbhumnear theSinghbhumregion of Eastern India with the help of the dominant localBhuyanclans. Written archival records point to the reign of Indra Shekhar Deo under whom the region formally became a part of the British Empire after the defeat of the Marathas in theSecond Anglo-Maratha War.[4][5][6][7]
Gangpur was a feudatory estate ofSambalpur.In 1821 the British authorities canceled the feudatory rights of Sambalpur over Gangpur and the ruler was granted asanad,by which Gangpur was recognized as a princely state in its own right.[8]On 1 January 1948 the last ruler of Gangpur signed the document of accession to the Indian Union after independence, following which it merged with the state ofOdisha,forming a part of theSundergarh district.
Rulers
[edit]The rulers of Gangpur of Sekhar dynasty:[9]
- Gangdhar Sekhar Deo
- ...
- Indra Sekhar Deo (1804 – 1820)
- Parshuram Sekhar Deo (1820 – 1831)
- Jagadev Sekhar Deo (1831 – 1852)
- Chandrabhanu Sekhar Deo (1852 – 1858)
- Mohan Sekhar Deo (1858)
- Raghunath Sekhar Deo (28 Oct 1858 – 10 June 1917)
- Bhabani Shankar Sekhar Deo (10 June 1917 – 5 May 1930)
- Bir Mitra Pratap Sekhar Deo (5 May 1930 – 26 December 1938)
- Rani Janaki Rathnayammarjee of Kurupam (f) - Regent (5 May 1930 – 26 December 1938 and 26 December 1938 – 27 November 1944)
- Bir Udit Pratap Sekhar Deo (26 December 1938 – 1 October 1948)
Titular
[edit]- Bir Udit Pratap Sekhar Deo (1 October 1948 - 1967)
- Birendra Sekhar Deo (1967 - 2010)
- Samarendra Sekhar Deo (2010 - current)
References
[edit]- ^"Imperial Gazetter of India, Volume 21, page 199 - Imperial Gazetteer of India - Digital South Asia Library".dsal.uchicago.edu.
- ^Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911)..Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 452.
- ^Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteerp. 660
- ^ODISHA DISTRICT GAZETTEERS SUNDARGARH(PDF),GAD, Govt of Odisha, 2014, p. 53-57
- ^Harihar Panda (October 2015),Princely State of Gangpur(PDF),Odisha Review
- ^Pratap Kishore Mohanty (September 2015),LAND & FOREST GOVERNANCE IN SUNDARGARH(PDF),Vasundhara, p. 3, archived fromthe original(PDF)on 5 July 2022,retrieved7 March2021
- ^Harihar Panda,"THE ROYAL STORIES OF ODISHA PRINCELY STATE OF GANGPUR",Academia.edu,p. 3
- ^"Imperial Gazetter of India, Volume 12, page 146 - Imperial Gazetteer of India - Digital South Asia Library".dsal.uchicago.edu.
- ^"Indian states before 1947 A-J".rulers.org.
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