Satara State

Satara State
1818 (1818)–1849 (1849)
Flag
Satara State in 1832
Status	Princely state of the British East India Company
Capital	Satara
Official languages	Marathi
Religion	Hinduism and other minority religions
Government	Monarchy
Chhatrapati/Raja
• 1818 – 1839	Pratap Singh (first)
• 1839 – 1849	Shahaji (last)
History
• Established	1818 (1818)
• Disestablished	1849 (1849)
Currency	Rupee, Paisa, Shivrai
Preceded by Succeeded by Maratha Confederacy Company rule in India
Today part of	India

The Satara State was a Maratha rump state in India created after the fall of the Maratha Confederacy in 1818 following the Third Anglo-Maratha War, and annexed by the British in 1849 using the Doctrine of lapse. The state was ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty, descendants of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha kingdom.

The first Raja of the state was Pratap Singh who was installed on the throne by the British after they defeated Peshwa Bajirao II in 1818. Pratap Singh was deposed in 1838. His brother, Shahaji succeeded him but died without a natural heir in 1848. At that time, the East India Company government refused to accept Shahaji's adopted son as his successor under the company's Doctrine of lapse, a policy introduced by the then Governor, Lord Dalhousie, and absorbed the territory into the growing British dominion.[1][2]

Territory

The state comprised the modern day Satara district, and parts of the Pune district, the Sangli district, the Solapur district and the Bijapur district, Karnataka.

See also

• Kolhapur State

References

1. Kulkarni, Sumitra (1995). The Satara raj, 1818-1848 : a study in history, administration, and culture (1st ed.). New Delhi: Mittal Publications. pp. 2–3. ISBN 9788170995814.
2. Ramusack, Barbara N. (2007). The Indian princes and their states (Digitally print. version. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 978-0521039895. Retrieved 13 October 2016.