Kingdom of Amber
Princely state in India
The Kingdom of Amber, later the Kingdom of Jaipur or the Jaipur State, was located in the historic region of Rajputana and was ruled by the Kachwaha Rajput clan.
Kingdom of Amber (1146–1727) Kingdom of Jaipur (1727–1949) | |||||||||
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.svg) Flag (c. 1699–1818)
 Coat of arms
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 Jaipur State within Rajputana, in the Imperial Gazetteer of India (1909) | |||||||||
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| Common languages | Dhundari, Hindi | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy (1028–1818; 1947–1949) Princely state (1818–1947) | ||||||||
| Maharaja, Sawai | |||||||||
• 1128-1133 | Dulha Rai (first) | ||||||||
• 1922–1949 | Man Singh II (last) | ||||||||
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• Established | 1128 | ||||||||
• Acceded to India | 1949 | ||||||||
| Currency | Indian Rupee | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Rajasthan, Republic of India | ||||||||
It became a Princely State under the British rule after signing a treaty creating a subsidiary alliance with the Company in the year 1818, after the Third Anglo Maratha war. It got incorporated into the independent India in 1947 and became the part of India by 1949.[1][2] Upon integration, the ruler was granted a pension and the use of the title "Maharaja of Jaipur" by the Government of India.[1] However, the pension, privileges, and the use of the title were ended in 1971 by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India.[3][4]
References
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ramusack-pol-integrationwas used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page). - ↑ Copland, Ian (16 May 2002), The princes of India in the endgame of empire, 1917–1947, Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Cambridge University Press, p. 1, ISBN 9780521894364, archived from the original on 17 January 2023, retrieved 12 September 2021,
Between 1947 and 1949 all 600-odd ruling princes in India were pensioned off and their ancestral domains—the so-called 'princely states'—were submerged in the bodypolitic of the Indian union. Nowadays the few former rulers still alive are just ordinary citizens, while the ex-states survive—if at all—only in attenuated shape as components of larger administrative units. As a practical system of governance monarchy in India has been consigned to the dustbin of history.
- ↑ "The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971", indiacode.nic.in, Government of India, 1971, archived from the original on 23 March 2023, retrieved 9 November 2011
- ↑ Schmidt, Karl J. (1995). An atlas and survey of South Asian history. M.E. Sharpe. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-56324-334-9.
Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses.