Pataudi State

Pataudi State was a small princely state in India, established in 1804 by the East India Company rule in India.

Pataudi State
Princely State
1804–1948
Flag
Pataudi shown in Delhi Territory, south of Gurgaon, Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908
Area
• 1901	135 km2 (52 sq mi)
Population
• 1901	21,933
History
• Established	1804
• Accession to the Union of India	1948
Preceded by Succeeded by Maratha Empire India

View of Pataudi Palace.

The state formed a part of the Delhi Territory in the Ceded and Conquered Provinces. It was under the suzerainty of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 52 square miles and included one town, Pataudi, and 40 villages, ruled by the Pataudi family.

History

The state of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British East India Company, when Faiz Talab Khan, an Afghan Pashtun warlord of the Barech tribe, who was made the first Nawab, aided them in their battle against the Maratha Empire, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War.^[1] The family traces their origin to 16th century India, when their ancestors came from present day Afghanistan to India during the period of the Lodi dynasty.^[1] The 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, played cricket for both England and India and captained the latter. His son the last Nawab also captained the Indian cricket team.

At the end of the British Raj and with the political integration of India in 1948, the princely state of Pataudi was absorbed into the new Dominion of India (later Republic of India). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, the Government of India abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses).^[2][3]

The former Pataudi Palace was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by Saif Ali Khan, the current patriarch of the Pataudi family.

Rulers

Rulers bore the title of the Nawab.^[4][5]

• Faiz Talab Khan (1804–1829)
• Akbar Ali Khan (1829–1862)
• Mohammad Ali Taqi Khan (1862–1867)
• Mohammad Mukhtar Husain Khan (1867–1878)
• Mohammad Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan (1878–1898)
• Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan (1898–1913)
• Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (1913–1917)
• Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan (1917–1948)(1948-1952) (just as titular nawab after merging with India)
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1952–1971) (Title abolished in 1971; 1971–2011: Honoree title)

Demographics

Religious groups in Pataudi State (British Punjab province era)

Religious group	1881[6][7][8]		1891[9]		1901[10]		1911[11][12]		1921[13]		1931[14]		1941[15]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Hinduism [a]	14,473	81.09%	15,825	83.28%	18,281	83.35%	16,114	82.45%	15,090	83.38%	15,596	82.64%	17,728	82.38%
Islam	3,286	18.41%	3,057	16.09%	3,549	16.18%	3,338	17.08%	2,898	16.01%	3,168	16.79%	3,655	16.98%
Jainism	81	0.45%	120	0.63%	103	0.47%	82	0.42%	109	0.6%	105	0.56%	128	0.59%
Christianity	7	0.04%	0	0%	0	0%	9	0.05%	0	0%	3	0.02%	9	0.04%
Sikhism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	1	0.01%	0	0%
Zoroastrianism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Judaism	—	—	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Others	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
Total population	17,847	100%	19,002	100%	21,933	100%	19,543	100%	18,097	100%	18,873	100%	21,520	100%
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

See also

• Political integration of India
• Afghan diaspora
• Nawab of Pataudi

Notes

1. 1931-1941: Including Ad-Dharmis