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| Kalsia State | |||||||||
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| Princely State of British India | |||||||||
| 1763–1948 | |||||||||
.jpg) Coat of arms
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 Kalsia (in red) in a 1911 map of Punjab | |||||||||
| Capital | Chhachhrauli | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 435 km2 (168 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 67,132 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1763 | ||||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Punjab & Haryana, India | ||||||||
Kalsia was a princely state in Punjab, British India, one of the former Cis-Sutlej states. It was founded by Gurbaksh Singh Kalsia in 1760. After India's independence, it was included in PEPSU and later in the Indian East Punjab after the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. The area of Kalsia is now located in the modern day Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. In 1940 the population of Kalsia was 67,393.[1] Kalsia was ruled by Jat Sikhs.[2]
- ^ Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer, p. 900
- ^ Bates, Crispin (26 March 2013). Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume I: Anticipations and Experiences in the Locality. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN 978-81-321-1589-2.