The Kingdom of Nagpur was a kingdom in east-central India founded by the Gond rulers of Deogarh in the early 18th century. It came under the rule of Marathas of the Bhonsle dynasty in the mid-18th century. The kingdom clashed with the expanding British in the early 19th century, becoming a princely state of the empire in 1818, and annexed to British India in 1853. Gondi refers to a people and their language in Central India. ... Deogarh, also known as Devgarh, is a village in Chhindwara District of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. ... The Marāthās (Marathi: मराठा)is a collective term referring to an Indo Aryan group of Hindu warriors and peasants hailing mostly from the present-day state of Maharashtra, who created a substantial empire, covering a major part of India, in the late 17th and 18th centuries AD. The Marathas... The Bhonsle or Bhonsale were a prominent Maratha clan who served as rulers of several states in India . ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince and is thus a principality taken in the broad sense. ... British India (otherwise known as The British Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, were under the colonial authority of the British Empire (Undivided India). ...

Gond kingdom

There is no historical record of Nagpur prior to the beginning of the 18th century, when it formed part of the Gond Kingdom of Deogarh, in Chhindwara District. Bakht Buland, the ruler of Deogharh, visited Delhi, afterwards was determined to encourage the development of his own kingdom. To this end he invited Hindu and Muslim artisans and cultivators to settle in the plain country, and founded the city of Nagpur. His successor, Chand Sultan continued the development of his country, and moved his capital to Nagpur. Gondi refers to a people and their language in Central India. ... Deogarh, also known as Devgarh, is a village in Chhindwara District of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. ... Chhindwara district is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India, and Chhindwara town is the district headquarters. ...

Raghoji I Bhonsle (1739-1755)

On Chand Sultan's death in 1739 there were disputes as to his succession, and his widow invoked the aid of the Maratha leader Raghoji Bhonsle was governing Berar on behalf of the Maratha Peshwa. The Bhonsle family were originally headmen from Deora, a village in Satara District. Raghoji's grandfather and his two brothers had fought in the armies of Shivaji, and to the most distinguished of them was entrusted a high military command and the collection of chauth (tribute) in Berar. Raghoji, on being called in by the contending Gond factions, replaced the two sons of Chand Sultan on the throne from which they had been ousted by a usurper, and retired to Berar with a suitable reward for his assistance. Dissentions, however, broke out between the brothers, and in 1743 Raghoji again intervened at the request of the elder brother and drove out his rival. But he had not the heart to give back a second time the country he held within his grasp. Burhan Shan, the Gond Raja, though allowed to retain the outward insignia of royalty, became practically a state pensioner, and all real power passed to the Marathas. Berar is a former province of British India, located in central India. ... The Maratha Empire at its peak in 1760 Statue of the great Baji Rao, near Shaniwar Wada, Pune The Peshwa (also known in Marathi as Peshwe) were Brahmin Prime Ministers to the Maratha Chattrapatis (Kings), who began commanding Maratha armies and later became the hereditary rulers of the Maratha empire... Deora (occasionally Devda) is the name of a branch of the Chauhan clan of rajputs in India. ... Satara District is a district in the Indian state of Maharashtra with an area of 10,480 km&sup2 and a population of 2,796,906 (as of 2001). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Bold and decisive in action, Raghoji was the type of a Maratha leader; he saw in the troubles of other states an opening for his own ambition, and did not even require a pretext for plunder and invasion. Twice his armies invaded Bengal, and he obtained the cession of Cuttack. Chanda, Chhattisgarh, and Sambalpur were added to his dominions between 1745 and 1755, the year of his death. Cuttack   (derived from the Sanskrit word Kataka, which signifies a military camp or a fort or a Government seat protected by an army) is one of the oldest cities in India and the Business Capital of Orissa. ... In Hinduism, Chanda is a monster that Chamunda Devi killed. ... Chhattisgarh (Chhattisgarhi/Hindi: छत्तीसगढ़, IPA: / /) , a state in central India, formed when the sixteen Chhattisgarhi speaking southeastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained statehood on November 1, 2000. ... Sambalpur is a city in the western portion of Indias Orissa state. ...

Janoji (1755-1772), Mudhoji I (1772-1788), and Janoji II (1788-1816)

His successor Janoji took part in the wars betweeen the Peshwa and the Nizam of Hyderabad, and after he had in turn betrayed both of them, they united against him and sacked and burnt Nagpur in 1765. The Maratha Empire at its peak in 1760 Statue of the great Baji Rao, near Shaniwar Wada, Pune The Peshwa (also known in Marathi as Peshwe) were Brahmin Prime Ministers to the Maratha Chattrapatis (Kings), who began commanding Maratha armies and later became the hereditary rulers of the Maratha empire... Nizam-ul-Mulk was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad state from 1724 to 1949. ... Flag of the State of Hyderabad. ...

On Janoji's death in 1772, his brothers fought for the succession, until Mudhoji shot the other on the battlefield of Panchgaon, six miles south of Nagpur, and succeeded to the regency on behalf of his infant son Raghoji II who was Janoji's adopted heir. In 1785 Mandla and the upper Narmada valley were added to the Nagpur dominions by treaty with the Peshwa. Mudhoji had courted the favor of the British, and this policy was continued for some time by Raghoji II, who acquired Hoshangabad and the lower Narmada valley. But in 1803 he united with Sindhia against the British. The two chiefs were decisively defeated at Assaye and Argaon, and by the treaty of Deogaon of that year Raghoji ceded Cuttack, southern Berar, and Sambalpur to the British, although Sambalpur was not relinquished until 1806. Mandla is a town in Madhya Pradesh in India, situated on the banks of Narmada River. ... The Narmada or Nerbudda is a river in central India. ... Hoshangabad is a city in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh state, central India. ... The Sindhia, also spelled Scindia , Sindia, or Shinde are a prominent Maratha family in India. ... The Battle of Assaye occurred September 23, 1803 near the village of Assaye in south-central India. ... The Battle of Argaon took place on November 28 1803, between the British under the command of General Lord Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) and the forces of The Rajah of Berar under Sindhia of Gwalior. ... Cuttack   (derived from the Sanskrit word Kataka, which signifies a military camp or a fort or a Government seat protected by an army) is one of the oldest cities in India and the Business Capital of Orissa. ... Berar is a former province of British India, located in central India. ... Sambalpur is a city in the western portion of Indias Orissa state. ...

To the close of the 18th century the Maratha administration had been on the whole good, and the country had prospered. The first four of the Bhonsles were military chiefs with the habits of rough soldiers, connected by blood and by constant familiar interaction with all their principal officers. Descended from a class of cultivators, they favored and fostered that order. They were rapacious, but seldom cruel to the lower castes. Up to 1792 their territories were seldom the theater of hostilities, and the area of cultivation and revenue continued to increase under a fairly equitable and extremely simple system of government. After the treaty of Deogaon, however, all this had changed. Raghoji II was deprived of a third of his territories, and he attempted to make up the loss of revenue from the remainder. The villages were mercilessly rack-rented, and many new taxes imposed. The pay of the troops was in arrears, and they maintained themselves by plundering the cultivators, while at the same time commenced the raids of the Pindaris, who became so bold that in 1811 they advanced to Nagpur and burnt the suburbs. It was at this time that most of the numerous village forts were built, to which on the approach of these marauders the peasant retired and fought for bare life, all he possessed outside the walls being already lost to him. Pindari is a word of uncertain origin, applied to the irregular horsemen who accompanied the Maratha armies in central India during the 18th century when the Mughal Empire was breaking up. ...

Mudhoji II (1816-1818)

On the death of Raghoji II in 1816, his son Parsaji was soon supplanted and murdered by Mudhoji II Bhonsle or Appa Sahib. A treaty of alliance providing for the maintenance of a subsidiary force by the British was signed in this year, a British resident having been appointed to the Nagpur court since 1799. In 1817, on the outbreak of war between the British and the Peshwa, Appa Sahib threw off his cloak of friendship, and accepted and embassy and title from the Peshwa. His troops attacked the British, and were defeated in the action at Sitabaldi, and a second time round Nagpur city. As a result of these battles, the remaining portion of Berar and the territories in the Narmada valley were ceded to the British. Appa Sahib was reinstated to the throne, but shortly afterwards was discovered to be again conspiring, and was deposed and forwarded to Allahabad in custody. On the way, however, he bribed his guards and escaped, first to the Mahadeo Hills and subsequently to the Punjab. Surroundings of Allahabad, India. ... Punjab, 1903 Punjab Province, 1909 Punjab (meaning: Land of the five Rivers) (c. ...

Raghoji III (1818-1853) and British rule

A grandchild of Raghoji II was then placed on the throne, and the territories were administered by the resident from 1818 to 1830, in which year the young ruler known as Raghoji III was allowed to assume the actual government. He died without a male heir in 1853, and the kingdom was annexed by the British under the Doctrine of Lapse. The former kingdom was administered as Nagpur Province, under a commissioner appointed by the Governor-General of India, until the formation of the Central Provinces in 1861. During the Revolt of 1857 a scheme for an uprising was formed by a regiment of irregular cavalry in conjunction with the disaffected Muslims of the city, but was frustrated by the prompt action of the civil authorities, supported by Madras troops from Kamptee. Some of the native officers and two of the leading Muslims of the city were hanged from the ramparts of the fort, and the disturbances ended. The aged princess Baka Bai, widow of Raghoji II, used all her influence in support of the British, and by her example kept the Maratha districts loyal. The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy devised by Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of India between 1848 and 1856. ... Nagpur Province was a province of British India that covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh states. ... The Governor-General of India (or Governor-General and Viceroy of India) was the head of the British administration in India. ... A British Raj province comprising British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India. ... An engraving titled Sepoy Indian troops dividing the spoils after their mutiny against British rule gives a contemporary view of events from the British perspective. ... Kamthi or Kamptee is located 9 miles north-north-west of Nagpur of the Central Provinces, in the state of Maharastra, India, just below the confluence of the Kanhan with the rivers Pench and Kolar (River); 10 m. ...

Reference

• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, et al (1908). Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 17. 1908-1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.