Bhopal (state)
| Bhopal State | ||||||||||
| भोपाल रियासत / بھوپال ریاست | ||||||||||
| Princely state of India (1818–1949) | ||||||||||
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Motto Nasr Minullah |
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| Capital |
Bhopal Islamnagar (for a brief period) |
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| Languages | Persian (Official) and Hindi-Urdu | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam and Hinduism | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
| Nawab of Bhopal | ||||||||||
| • | 1707-1728 | Dost Mohammad Khan (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1926–1949 | Hamidullah Khan (last) | ||||||||
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| • | Established | 1707 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1 June 1949 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Madhya Pradesh, India | |||||||||
Bhopal State (pronounced [bʱoːpaːl]; Urdu: ریاست بھوپال) was a tributary state in 18th century India, a princely salute state with 19 gun salute in a subsidiary alliance with British India from 1818 to 1947, and an independent state from 1947 to 1949. Islamnagar was founded and served as the State's first capital, which was later shifted to the city of Bhopal.
The state was founded by Dost Mohammad Khan, an Pashtun soldier in the Mughal army, who became a mercenary after the Emperor Aurangzeb's death and annexed several territories to his feudal territory. It came under the suzerainty of the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1723 shortly after its foundation in 1707. In 1737, Marathas defeated the Mughals and the Nawab of Bhopal in the Battle of Bhopal, and started collecting tribute from the state. After the defeat of the Marathas in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, Bhopal became a British princely state in 1818. Bhopal State was the second largest state in pre-independence India, with a Muslim leadership, first being Hyderabad State. The state was merged into the Union of India in 1949 as Bhopal.
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