Miraj Senior

Miraj was a princely state of British India on the Deccan Plateau in the present-day states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Its capital was the site of Miraj.

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. Govind Rao Patwardhan was around 1750 Raja of Miraj. Gangadhar Rao Patwardhan ( 1801-20 ), drove his nephew, who retired to Sangli. 1818-1947 Miraj was a British protectorate. In 1820 it came to the division of an estate in the lines Miraj Senior and Junior. Miraj Senior in 1941 had an area of ​​885 square kilometers and 108,000 inhabitants, Miraj Junior 508 square kilometers and 36,000 inhabitants ( 1901). Both parts consisted of scattered villages in the districts of Satara, Belgaum, Solapur and Dharwad.

After Britain had decided on 18 July 1947 to dismiss India and Pakistan at independence ( see History of India), Miraj was initially independent, and the Rajas founded along with 14 other princes the United States Deccan that the on February 5, 1948 State Bombay were incorporated. On March 8, completed the Rajas formal connection to India. In 1956, the southern villages came by the States Reorganisation Act for the State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ), the rest remained in Bombay, grew out of the 1960, the state of Maharashtra.