Beri State

Beri State
बेरी रियासत
Princely State of British India
c. 1750–1950 →

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Beri State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
History
 • Established c. 1750
 • Independence of India 1950
Area
 • 1901 82 km2 (32 sq mi)
Population
 • 1901 4,279 
Density 52.2 /km2  (135.2 /sq mi)
Today part of Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Beri State was a princely state of the Bundelkhand Agency of the British Raj. It was a small Sanad state of about 82.87 km2 with a population of 4,297 inhabitants in 1901. Its capital was at Beri, a small town —2,387 inhabitants in 1901— located by the Betwa River in modern Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh, about 30 km from Hamirpur town.

Together with Baoni State (Kadaura) at its northwestern edge Beri State was forming an enclave within the directly-administered British territory of the Central Provinces.[1]

History

Beri State was founded in the mid eighteenth century by Diwan Acharju (Achharaj) Singh, a jagirdar who was the son of Diwan Mahma Rai of Karaiha in Gwalior State and who migrated to Sandi in Jalaun district in the last half of the 18th century.[1]

Beri became a British protectorate in 1809 under the rule of Rao Jugal Prasad.[2] Raja Yadvendra Singh, the last ruler of Beri State signed the instrument of accession to the Indian Union on 1 January 1950.[3]

Rulers

The ruling family were members of the Bundela clan of the Ponwar line of Rajputs.[3] The rulers used the title of Diwan and only after 1945 the last ruler adopted the title Raja.[2]

Title Diwan

Title Rao

Title Raja

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 3.
  2. 1 2 Princely States of India A-J
  3. 1 2 Beri Princely State

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Coordinates: 25°55′N 79°54′E / 25.917°N 79.900°E / 25.917; 79.900

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