| Kurundwad State (1733–1854) Kurundvad Senior 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 | 479 km2 (185 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 42,474 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1733 | ||||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Maharashtra, India | ||||||||
Kurundvad Senior, also spelt as 'Kurundwad', was one of two Maratha princely states during the British Raj: 'Kurundvad Junior' and Kurundvad Senior. The two states separated in 1854 and less than a century later, on 8 March 1948, both states acceded to the Indian Union.[1]
Kurundvad Senior 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. The surface of was 479 km2, larger than Kurundvad Junior; its population in 1881 was 35,187 and by 1901 it reached 42,474 inhabitants, of which 34,000 were Hindu, 4,500 Muslim and 3,500 Jain.
- ^ "Kurundwad Senior (Princely State)". Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908