| Kharsawan State ଖରସୁଆଁ ରାଜ୍ୟ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Princely State of British India | |||||||
| 1650–1948 | |||||||
 Flag | |||||||
 Kharsawan State in a 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India map | |||||||
| Area | |||||||
• 1892 | 396 km2 (153 sq mi) | ||||||
| Population | |||||||
• 1892 | 31,051 | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1650 | ||||||
| 1948 | |||||||
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Kharsawan State, also spelt Kharsua or kharaswan,[1] (Odia:ଖରସୁଆଁ)was a princely state in India during the British Raj.[2] The state had a privy purse of 33,000 rupees. It was one of the Odia Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj and the major language spoken in the area is Odia.
The capital was the city of Kharsawan and the former area of Kharsawan State is now a part of Jharkhand, where its district is named Seraikela Kharsawan district. Kumar Aditya Narayan Singh Deo and his father Maharaj Kumar Rudra Pratap Singh Deo appreciated the name change of the district.
- ^ Mohapatra, Anil (April 2011). "The Unfinished Task of Orissa Formation" (PDF). Orissa Review.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 22, page 83 – Imperial Gazetteer of India – Digital South Asia Library. Dsal.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 11 July 2012.