Tehri Garhwal District is a district of Uttaranchal state of northern India. The town of Tehri is the administrative headquarters of the district. Uttaranchal (उत्तरांचल) became the 27th state of the Republic of India on November 9, 2000. ... Tehri is a town in Uttaranchal state, India. ...

The district has a population of 604,608 (2001 census), a 16.15% increase over the previous decade. The district is bounded on the north by Uttarkashi District, on the east by Rudraprayag District, on the south by Pauri Garhwal District, and on the west by Dehradun District. Dehradun is a district of Uttaranchal state, India. ...

• Tehri-Garhwal was a former princely state, counted among the Punjab Hill States of British India, which consisted of present-day Tehri Garhwal District and most of Uttarkashi District. It had an area 4180 sq. m./ 11,655 km2; pop. (1901) 268,885. It adjoined the British districts of Garhwal to the southeast and Dehra Dun to the southwest. The Panwar (Shah) dynasty's Hindu ruler was originally titled Raja, but since 1913 Maharaja; the salute state was entitled to 11-guns and had a privy purse of 300.000 rupees, acceeding to India on 1st August 1949.

A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ... The Punjab Hill States now comprise the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. ... The British Raj is an informal term for the period of British rule of most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (previously known as Ceylon). ... A Salute state is a princely state (i. ...

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• PrincelyStates includes the ruling house's genealogy