| Sandur State | |||||||||
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| State Within the Maratha Confederacy (1713 - 1818) Princely State | |||||||||
| 1713–1949 | |||||||||
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 1913 map of the Madras Presidency | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 433 km2 (167 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 11,200[1] | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1713 | ||||||||
| 1949 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Karnataka, India | ||||||||
Sandur State was a princely state of India during the British Raj, part of the Madras States Agency.[2] Its capital was the town of Sanduru.[3]
- ^ S. S. Shashi (1996). Encyclopaedia Indica: Princely States in colonial India. Anmol Publications. p. 59. ISBN 9788170418597.
In 1801, Bellary district was transferred to British India, and the rajas of Sandur came under the political authority of the Madras Presidency. The area of the state was 433 sq.km. (161 sq.mi.) ; its population in 1901 was 11,200.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 142.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 22, p. 42.