| Kurundwad State (1733–1854) Kurundvad Junior State (1854–1948) | |||||||||
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| State Within the Maratha Confederacy (1733 - 1818) Princely State of British India | |||||||||
| 1733–1948 | |||||||||
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 Kurundvad in the Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 295 km2 (114 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 34,003 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1733 | ||||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Maharashtra, India | ||||||||
Kurundvad Junior, also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was of two Maratha princely states during the British Raj: 'Kurundvad Senior' and Kurundvad Junior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the Indian Union.[1]
With a surface of 295 km2, Kurundvad Junior was smaller than the territory ruled by the senior line. Its population in 1881 was 25,811 and in 1901 it had risen to 34,003.
Like Kurundvad Senior, Kurundvad Junior State was administered as part of the Deccan States Agency of the Bombay Presidency.[2] Its capital was at Kurundvad a small town by the Panchganga river in Kolhapur district. Although they held different territories, the capital, Kurundvad, was shared between the two states. The territory of both was widely scattered, forming enclaves within other native states and British districts.[3]
- ^ "Kurundwad Junior (Princely State)". Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 954.