Dhar State

Dhar State धार रियासत
Princely State of British India
1730–1947 →
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Dhar State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
History
•	Established	1730
•	Independence of India	1947
Area
•	1941	4,660 km2(1,799 sq mi)
Population
•	1941	253,210
	Density	54.3 /km2  (140.7 /sq mi)
Today part of		India
Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 510

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Dhar State was a princely state of British Raj ruled by the Rajput Pawar dynasty, of Kshatriya Maratha- lineage. It was a salute state in the colonial sway of the Central India Agency. Dhar began as one of the states during Maratha dominance in India about 1730. In 1941 it had an area of 1,798 square miles (4,660 km²) and a population of 253,210. Dhar(anagar) was the capital of the state since 1732 (from the 1728 foundation, the Raja's first seat had been Multhan). In 1948 it became part of Madhya Bharat.

Lying between 21°57' and 23°15' north, and 74°37' and 75°37' east, Dhar State was bordered on the north by Ratlam State; east by parts of Gwalior and Indore States; on the south by Barwani State, and on the west by Jhabua State and portions of Gwalior and Indore.

Hemendra Singh Rao Pawar is the present head of the former ruling family of the now defunct state.

The Parmar clan Rajput rulers of the state claimed descent from the legendary Vikramaditya and the Paramara king Bhoja. The present Dhar dynasty was founded in 1729 by Udaji Rao Puar, a distinguished Maratha general who received the territory as a grant from the Peshwas. During the Pindhari raids, the state's territory was whittled away, until it was restored in size on 10 January 1819, when it signed a Subsidiary alliance agreement with the British East India Company and became a major Princely state, enjoying indirect rule under British protectorate. The name of the state was taken from old city of Dharlong, famous as the capital of Parmar Rajputs. The state was confiscated for rebellion in 1857 but was restored in 1864 with reduction in territory.

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