Baoni State
| Baoni State | |||||||||
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British India (1806–1947) (1947–1948)under the Dominion of India | |||||||||
| 1784–1948 | |||||||||
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 Coat of arms
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Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 313 km2 (121 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 19,780 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Motto | "Al hukumu lilah wāl mulk Lilāh" "الحكم لله والملك لله" (Rulership and dominion belongs to God) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1784 | ||||||||
| 1948 | |||||||||
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| The Imperial Gazetteer of India[1] | |||||||||
Royal standard of the Nawab of Baoni.[2]
Baoni State was a
Baoni was located in the
Hindu and 12% Muslim.[4]
Descendants and Current Rulers
The princely state is no longer existent due to its annexation by India during the partition. Due to this, there are no current rulers of the state and the descendants of the royal family remain scattered. There is a known descendant of Nawab Syed Mohammed Mushtaq Al Hassan Khan Bahadur, through his granddaughter, Sikandar Begum and her daughter named Sajaadi Begum who was named Muhammad Hamid Khan. He fled to Pakistan during the partition and has many descendants living in Pakistan and Canada. His paternal line being from him to his son Hammad Khan and his grandson Ayaan Khan.
See also
- Kadaura
- Nizam of Hyderabad
- List of Sunni Muslim dynasties
- Mahseer in heraldry
References
- ^ Hunter, Sir William Wilson; Trübner & Co., London 1885
- ^ Baoni-Bundelkhand – Fotw
- ^ Hunter, Sir William Hunter; Cotton, James Sutherland; Burn, Richard; Meyer, William Stevenson (1908). The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Great Britain India Office, Clarendon Press.
- ^ a b Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 414.
External links
Media related to Baoni State at Wikimedia Commons- Pictures of Baoni State
