Mudhol State

Mudhol was a princely state of British India on the Deccan Plateau in what is now the state of Karnataka. Its capital was Mudhol in Bagalkot district today.

With an area of ​​953 square kilometers and a population of 63 001 (1901 ) was one of Mudhol to the smaller princely states. He lay on the banks of Ghataprabha River between the princely state Jamkhandi, the districts of Bijapur and Belgaum Bombay province and one for princely state of Kolhapur associated exclave.

Mudhol was ruled by a Maratha dynasty from the clan of the Ghorpade. The ancestors of the rulers of Mudhol had received the territory originally from the Sultanate of Bijapur as a fief ( jagir ). During Shivaji's conquests, they joined in the 17th century but at the Maratha Confederacy. After the end of the Third Marathenkriegs (1817-1818) Mudhol was a British protectorate. 1922 took the ruler to the title Raja. After the Indian independence in 1947, Mudhol 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 Mudhol in 1956 came to the State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).