Ramdurg State

Ramdurg was a princely state of British India on the Deccan Plateau in what is now the state of Karnataka. Its capital was Ramdurg in today's district Belgaum.

With an area of ​​438 square kilometers and a population of 37 848 (1901 ) was one Ramdurg to the smaller princely states. He lay on the banks of Malprabha flow between the districts of Bijapur, Dharwad and Belgaum Bombay Province and belonging to Kolhapur exclave.

Ramdurg was ruled by a Brahmin Maratha dynasty. The rulers bore the title Sachiv, 1907 Meherban Raja Shri. The ancestors of the ruling dynasty of Ramdurg had two fortresses Ramdurg and Nargund get allocated by the Peshwas as a fief after the area had been conquered in the 17th century by Marathenherrscher Shivaji. Between 1778 and 1799 Ramdurg was occupied by Tipu Sultan of Mysore. After the end of the Third Marathenkriegs (1817-1818) Ramdurg was a British protectorate. After the Indian independence in 1947, Ramdurg joined together with 15 other princely states to the United States Deccan, which were incorporated on February 5, 1948 in the state of Bombay. Through the States Reorganisation Act, the area of Ramdurg 1956 came to a state of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).