Pahra

Pahra State
पहरा रियासत
Princely Estate (Jagir)
1812–1948 →
Pahra (Chobepur) in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
History
 • Established 1812
 • Independence of India 1948
Area
 • 1931 69.92 km2 (27 sq mi)
Population
 • 1931 3,496 
Density 50 /km2  (129.5 /sq mi)
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. 

Pahra was a princely estate (Jagir) in India during the British Raj.[1] It was under the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency until 1896 when it was transferred to the Baghelkhand Agency.[2] In 1931 it was transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.

Pahra had an area of 69.92 km². In 1931 the population of the small state was of 3,496 inhabitants distributed in 31 villages. The principality was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1948[3] and is now part of the present-day state of Madhya Pradesh.

History

Pahra was founded in 1812 when a sanad was granted to Sālig Rām Chaube, son of Rām Kishan of Kalinjar, confirming him in the possession of the territory. It was one of the Chaube Jagirs of the area. The state was centered in the small town of Chaubepur (Chobepur),[4] which had a population of 878 in 1901.[5]

Rulers

Pahra's rulers were descendants of Ram Krishna Chaube, the Kiladar —governor of the fort— of Kalinjar.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ History of Satna District
  2. ↑ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  3. ↑ Central India States; The Chaube Jagirs (Bundelkhand Agency and Baghelkhand Agency)
  4. ↑ Chaubepur - Majhagwan
  5. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 19, p. 314.
  6. ↑ K.C.I.E Sir Roper Lethbridge, The Golden Book of India; A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles and Other Personages, Titled or Decorated of the Indian Empire, Aakar Books, ISBN 978-8187879541, page 396

Coordinates: 25°06′N 80°48′E / 25.100°N 80.800°E / 25.100; 80.800

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