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Name: gwalior state

Type: Cluster

Start: 1732 AD

End: 1948 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Gwalior State
  • Gwalior State (Princely State)
  • Establishment


  • January 1732: Gwalior state was a semi-autonomous Maratha state. It was centered in modern-day Madhya Pradesh, arising due to the rise of the Maratha Empire and fragmentation of the Mughal Empire.
  • Chronology


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    1. Anglo-Indian Wars


    Were a series of wars fought by the British East India Company in the Indian Subcontinent that resulted in the British conquest and colonial rule of the region.

    1.1.Anglo-Maratha Wars

    Was a series of wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India.

    1.1.1.First Anglo-Maratha War

    Was the first of three Anglo-Maratha Wars fought between the British East India Company and Maratha Empire in India. .

  • August 1780: Bengal detachment led by Captain Popham captured Gwalior.
  • May 1782: The Treaty of Salbai was signed on 17 May 1782, by representatives of the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company after long negotiations to settle the outcome of the First Anglo-Maratha War. The borders were reverted to the status quo ante bellum and British forces left the occupied regions.

  • 2. Partition of India


    Was the partition of British India in two independent entities: India (with a Hindu majority) and Pakistan (with a Muslim majority). This included the several princely states that were dependent on the British Colony.

  • June 1948: Accession of Gwalior State to India.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1751: Jaora State was founded by Abdul Ghafur Muhammad Khan. 'Abdu'l Ghafur Muhammad Khan was a cavalry officer serving the Pashtun leader Muhammad Amir Khan. He later served the Holkar maharaja of Indore State. The state was confirmed by the British government in 1818.

  • January 1801: Gwalior was ruled by the House of Scindia, a Hindu Maratha dynasty and was entitled to a 21-gun salute when it became a princely state of the British Empire.

  • January 1818: Between 1817 and 1822 Basoda was occupied by Gwalior State.

  • January 1823: Basoda State, located in present-day Madhya Pradesh, became a British protectorate in 1822. In 1947, Nawab Masood Ali Khan, the last ruler of Basoda State, signed the accession to the Indian Union.

  • Disestablishment


  • June 1948: Accession of Gwalior State to India.
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