Charkhari, covering an area of 745 sq mile and currently a part of Madhya Pradeshstate, was one of the Princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. The state was founded by Bijai Bahadur, a Rajput of Bundela clan. On India’s independence, this Princely state was acceded to India. Madhya Pradesh (मधà¥à¤¯ पà¥à¤°à¤¦à¥‡à¤¶) is a state in central India. ... India is subdivided into twenty-eight states, six union territories and the National Capital Territory. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ... The British Raj (also simply known as the Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, were under the colonial authority of the British. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Bundelas are a Rajput clan who ruled several states in central India. ...
CHARKHARI, a native state in the Bundelkhand agency of Central India.
It is surrounded on all sides by other states of Central India, except near Charkhari town, where it meets the United Provinces.
In 1857 Raja Ratan Singh received a hereditary salute of 11 guns, a khilat and a perpetual jagir of 1300 a year in recognition of his services during the Mutiny.
According to the 1946 National Geographic Map of India and Burma, and to A. Flicher's "Drapeaux et Armoiries des Etats Princiers de l'Empire des Indes" Baoni was a small enclave, attached to the Bundelkand Agency, but located in the United Provinces, about approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of the city of Cawnpore (now Kanpur).
The neighboring state of Charkhari's flag was also described.
Charkhari was an 11-gun state now in the Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Area: 2,279 km
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