Tonk State

Coordinates: 26°10′N 75°47′E / 26.17°N 75.78°E / 26.17; 75.78
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Tonk State
टोंक रियासत/ ریاستِ ٹونک
British India
1806–1949
Flag of Tonk
Flag
Coat of arms of Tonk
Coat of arms
Imperial Gazetteer of India
CapitalTonk
Area 
• 1931
6,512 km2 (2,514 sq mi)
Population 
• 1931
317,360
Government
 • Motto'"Nasr min Allah"
(Victory from God)
History 
• Established
1806
• 
Independence of India
1949
Succeeded by
Republic of India
Today part ofRajasthan (India)

Tonk was a princely state of India at the time of the British Raj. The town of Tonk, which was the capital of the state, had a population of 273,201 in 1901. The town was surrounded by a wall and had a mud fort. It had a high school, the Walter hospital for women, under a matron, and a separate hospital for men. It has a bridge on the river Banas.

Muslim
ruling dynasty.

Geography

The state was formed of several enclaves located in an area covered by the alluvium of the Bands, and from this, a few rocky hills composed of schists of the Aravalli Range protrude, together with scattered outliers of the Alwar quartzites. Nimbahera is for the most part covered by shales, limestone and sandstone belonging to the Lower Vindhyan group, while the Central India districts lie in the Deccan trap area, and present all the features common to that formation.

Besides the usual small game, antelope or

wild hog were found in many of the hills. Formerly, an occasional tiger was met in the south-east of Aligarh, the north-east of Nimbahera and parts of Pirawa and Sironj
.

The total area of the princely state was 2,553 square miles (6,610 km2) with a population in 1901 of 273,201.

By

Independence of India, Tonk acceded to the newly independent dominion of India on 7 April 1949. It was located in the region bordering present-day Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states that are now the Tonk district.[citation needed
]

History

The founder of the state was Nawab Muhammad Amir Khan (1769–1834), an adventurer and military leader of Pashtun descent from Salarzai Sub-Clan of

British India, the state came under the supervision of the Rajputana Agency and consisted of six isolated districts. Three of these were under the Rajputana Agency, namely, Tonk, Aligarh (formerly Rampura) and Nimbahera. The other three, Chhabra, Pirawa and Sironj, were in the Central India Agency. The Haraoti-Tonk Agency, with headquarters at Deoli, dealt with the states of Tonk and Bundi, as well as with the state of Shahpura.[3]

A former minister of Tonk state, Sahibzada Obeidullah Khan, was deputed on political duty to Peshawar during the Tirah campaign of 1897.[4]

In 1899–1900, the state suffered much distress due to drought. The princely state enjoyed an estimated revenue of £128,546 in 1883–84;[1] but no tribute was payable to the government of British India. Grain, cotton, opium and hides were the chief products and exports of the state. Two of the outlying tracts of the state were served by two different railways.

Nawab Sir Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan GCIE (ruled 1867–1930) was one of few chiefs to attend both Lord Lytton's Durbar in 1877 and the Delhi Durbar of 1903 as ruler.[4]

In 1947, on the

state, while some of its eastern enclaves became part of Madhya Pradesh
.

The foundation of the principality of Tonk led to the creation of a large Rajasthani Pathan community.

Rulers

The rulers of the state, the Salarzai Nawabs of Tonk, belonged to a Pashtun Tarkani tribe. They were entitled to a 17-gun salute by the British authorities.[citation needed] The last ruler before Indian independence, Nawab Muhammad Ismail Ali Khan, had no issue.

Nawabs

  • Muhammad Amir Khan
    (1806–1834)
  • Muhammad Wazir Khan (1834–1864)
  • Nawab Muhammad Ali Khan (1864–1867)
  • Nawab Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (1867 – 23 June 1930)
  • Nawab Muhammad Saadat Ali Khan (23 June 1930 – 31 May 1947)
  • Nawab Muhammad Faruq Ali Khan (1947–1948)
  • Nawab Muhammad Ismail Ali Khan. (1948-1974)
  • Nawab Masoom Ali Khan (1974–1993)
  • Nawab Aftab Ali Khan (1993–)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Hunter, Sir William Wilson (1887). The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Trübner & Company.
  2. – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. IV (1907), The Indian Empire, Administrative, Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552
  4. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tonk". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 10.

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