Jamkhandi

Jamkhandi was a princely state of British India on the Deccan Plateau in what is now the state of Karnataka. Its capital was the place Jamkhandi.

The Brahmin Har Bhat Patwardhan rose to the service of the Peshwa of the Marathas; he was the ancestor of the princes of Budhgaon, Miraj, Kurundwad, Sangli, Jamkhandi and Tasgaon. The first Raja Gopal Rao of Jamkhandi was Ramchandra Rao Patwardhan ( 1811-40 ). 1820 Tasgaon was separated as an independent principality; this 1848 British. Jamkhandi itself was a British protectorate until 1947. It had in 1941 an area of ​​1,357 square kilometers and 131,000 inhabitants. Jamkhandi consisted of two parts, a northern to the capital Jamkhandi in present-day Bagalkot district and a southern to the town in the district of Dharwad Kundgol.

After Britain had decided on 18 July 1947 to dismiss India and Pakistan at independence ( see History of India), Jamkhandi was initially independent, and the last Raja, Parshuram Rao II Patwardhan, founded together with 15 other princes of the United States Deccan that have been incorporated into the Bombay State on February 5, 1948. On 19 February, the Raja took formal connection to India. 1956, Jamkhandi by the States Reorganisation Act for the State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).