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1465 establishments in Asia
15th-century establishments in India
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Hindu states
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Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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Anup Singh of Bikaner

Anup Singh (IAST: Anūpa-siṃha, 1638–1698) served as the ruler of Bikaner State during 1669–1698.

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Aurangzeb

Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.

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Bikaner

Bikaner is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India. Bikaner State and Bikaner are 15th-century establishments in India.

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Bikaner style of painting

The Bikaner style of painting is a Rajasthani style of Indian painting developed in the city of Bikaner, capital of Bikaner State.

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British protectorates were protectorates—or client states—under protection of the British Empire's armed forces and represented by British diplomats in international arenas, such as the Great Game, in which the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Tibetan Kingdom became protected states for short periods of time.

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Burhanpur

Burhanpur is a historical city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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C. S. Venkatachar

Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar (11 July 1899 – 16 June 1999) was an Indian Civil Servant, diplomat and the second Chief Minister of Rajasthan.

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Constituent Assembly of India

The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to frame the Constitution of India.

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Devanagari

Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Dewan

Dewan (also known as diwan, sometimes spelled devan or divan) designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler.

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Dominion of India

The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India,.

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Dungar Singh

HH Sri Raj-Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Narendra Shiromani Maharaja Sir ShriDungar Singhji Bahadur (22 August 1854 – 19 August 1887) was the Maharaja of princely state of Bikaner from 1872 to 1887.

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Gaj Singh of Bikaner

Maharaja Gaj Singh was the ruler of the Kingdom of Bikaner between 1746 and 1787.

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Ganga Singh

General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh, (13 October 1880 – 2 February 1943), was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Bikaner (in present-day Rajasthan, India) from 1888 to 1943.

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Gun salute

A gun salute or cannon salute is the use of a piece of artillery to fire shots, often 21 in number (21-gun salute), with the aim of marking an honor or celebrating a joyful event.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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History of Bikaner

The region of Bikaner, stretching across north-western state of Rajasthan in India, was earlier known as Jangladesh.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India After Gandhi

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy is a non-fiction book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian Political Department

The Indian Political Department, formerly part of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, was a government department in British India.

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Instrument of Accession

The Instrument of Accession was a legal document first introduced by the Government of India Act 1935 and used in 1947 to enable each of the rulers of the princely states under British paramountcy to join one of the new dominions of India or Pakistan created by the Partition of British India.

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Jahangir

Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 till his death in 1627.

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Jodha of Mandore

Rao Jodha Rathore (28 March 1416 – 6 April 1489) was the 15th Rajput chief of Rathore clan who ruled the Kingdom of Marwar in the present-day state of Rajasthan.

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K. M. Panikkar

Kavalam Madhava Panikkar (3 June 1895 – 10 December 1963), popularly known as Sardar K. M. Panikkar, was an Indian statesman and diplomat.

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Karni Mata

Karni Mata (Hindi: करणी माता, or Bhagwati Karniji Maharaj), known by various names such as Bhagwati, Mehaai, Jagdamba, and Kiniyani is a Hindu Goddess of power and victory described as a warrior sage, who lived between 14th and 16th centuries in Western Rajasthan.

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Karni Singh

Maharaja Karni Singh ji (21 April 1924 – 6 September 1988), also known as Dr Karni Singh, was from 1950 the last Maharaja of Bikaner State to hold the title of Maharaja of Bikaner, officially, until 1971, when the privy purse and all the royal titles were abolished by the Republic of India.

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Kingdom of Marwar

Kingdom of Marwar, also known as the Jodhpur State under the British, was a kingdom in the Marwar region from 1243 to 1818 and a princely state under British rule from 1818 to 1947. Bikaner State and kingdom of Marwar are gun salute princely states, Rathore (clan) and states under the Rajputana Agency.

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Lunkaran

Rao Lunkaran (12 January 1470 – 30 March 1526) was the third Rathore Rajput ruler of Bikaner, ruling from 1505 to 1526.

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Maratha Confederacy

The Maratha Confederacy, also referred to as the Maratha Empire, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. Bikaner State and Maratha Confederacy are Hindu states.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1878.

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Order of the Star of India

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Political integration of India

Before India gained independence in 1947, India (also called the Indian Empire) was divided into two sets of territories, one under direct British rule (British India), and the other consisting of princely states under the suzerainty of the British Crown, with control over their internal affairs remaining in the hands of their hereditary rulers.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Privy Purse in India

In India, a privy purse was a payment made to the ruling families of erstwhile princely states as part of their agreements to first integrate with India in 1947 after the independence of India, and later to merge their states in 1949, thereby ending their ruling rights.

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Rai Singh of Bikaner

Raja Rai Singh was the Raja of Bikaner between 1571 and 1612.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajasthani languages

Rajasthani languages are a branch of Western Indo-Aryan languages.

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Rajputana

Rājputana, meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.

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Rajputana Agency

The Rajputana Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire dealing with a collection of native states in Rajputana (now in Rajasthan, northwestern India), under the political charge of an Agent reporting directly to the Governor-General of India and residing at Mount Abu in the Aravalli Range. Bikaner State and Rajputana Agency are states under the Rajputana Agency.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics.

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Rao Bika

Rao Bika Rathore (5 August 1438 – 17 June 1504), was a scion of the Rathore clan of Rajputs and the founder of the city of Bikaner and Bikaner State in present-day state of Rajasthan in India.

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Regent

In a monarchy, a regent is a person appointed to govern a state for the time being because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been determined.

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Royal Victorian Order

The Royal Victorian Order (Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria.

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Sadul Singh of Bikaner

Lieutenant-General Sir Sadul Singh GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, CVO (7 September 1902 – 25 September 1950) was the last reigning Maharaja of Bikaner from 2 February 1943 to 30 March 1949, continuing as Head of the House of Bikaner and holding the title of Maharaja of Bikaner until his death.

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State religion

A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.

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Subedar

Subedar is a military rank in the militaries of South Asia roughly equivalent to that of a warrant officer.

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Surat Singh of Bikaner

Maharaja Surat Singh was the ruler of the Kingdom of Bikaner between 1787 and 1828.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.

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Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (ISO: Vallabhbhāī Jhāvērabhāī Paṭēla; 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was an Indian independence activist and barrister who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950.

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