Sangli State

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

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 Jagir ( fief ) Sangli Miraj first belonged to, but Shrimant Rao Chintamanrao I. Appasaheb Patwardhan was sold by his uncle and founded in 1801, and the Principality of Sangli city, which was a British protectorate from 1818 to 1947. Chintamanrao II Dhundirajrao Appasaheb Patwardhan ( 1901-56 ) was raised in 1932 for Raja. Sangli in 1941 had an area of ​​2,941 square kilometers and 296,000 inhabitants. The area Sanglis consisted of numerous scattered villages in the districts of Satara, Solapur, Belgaum and Dharwad.

After Britain had decided on 18 July 1947 to dismiss India and Pakistan at independence ( see History of India), Sangli was initially independent, and the Raja founded together with 15 other princes of the United States Deccan that the on February 5, 1948 State of Bombay were incorporated. On March 8, the Raja took 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.