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Name: Tonk State

Type: Polity

Start: 1807 AD

End: 1817 AD

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Was an Indian polity located in the modern-day Indian State of Rajasthan.

Establishment

  • January 1807: Nawab Muhammad Amir Khan (1769-1834), an adventurer and military leader of Pashtun descent, established the Tonk State. Amir Khan rose to be a military commander in the service of Yashwantrao Holkar of the Maratha Empire in 1798. In 1806, Khan received the state of Tonk from Yashwantrao Holkar.

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    Disestablishment

  • January 1818: By treaty Tonk became a British protectorate in 1817.
  • January 1818: Lawa became a tributary of Tonk in 1817, when that state was established.

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  • Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 156 retrieved on https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/

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