Jaitpur State

Jaitpur State
जैतपुर रियासत
Jaitpur State जैतपुर रियासत
Princely State of British India
1731–1849
	; Jaitpur State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
Capital	Jaitpur
History
History
• Established as division of Panna State	1731
• Annexed by the British Raj	1849
	Succeeded by
Presidencies and provinces of British India
Today part of	Uttar Pradesh, India

Jaitpur State was a princely state in the Bundelkhand region. It was centered on Jaitpur, in present-day Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, which was the capital of the state.^[1] There were two forts in the area.

The last Raja died without issue and Jaitpur State was subsequently annexed by the British Raj.

History[]

Jaitpur state was founded in 1731 by Jagat Rai, son of the famous Bundela Rajput leader Chhatrasal, as a division of Panna State. In 1765 Ajaigarh State was separated from Jaitpur. Following the British occupation of Central India Jaitpur became a British protectorate in 1807.

When Khet Singh, the state's last ruler, died without issue in 1849, the principality was annexed by the British.^[2]^[3]

The rulers of Jaitpur State bore the title 'Raja'.^[4]

^ Wikimapia
^ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
^ Lee-Warner, William (1911). "Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ Princely States of India