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{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name =
|conventional_long_name =Pataudi State
|common_name =Pataudi
|nation = [[British India]]
|status_text = [[Princely State]]
|era =
|year_start = 1804
|date_start =
|event_start=
|year_end = 1948
|date_end =
|event_end= [[Independence of India|Accession to the Union of India]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 = Maratha Empire
|s1 = India
|flag_p1 = Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg
|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
|image_flag = Flag of Pataudi.png
|image_coat =
|image_map = CededConqueredProvincesDelhiTerritory.jpg
|image_map_caption = Pataudi shown in [[Delhi Territory]], south of Gurgaon, Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908
|stat_area1 =135
|stat_year1 = 1901
|stat_pop1 = 21,933
|footnotes =
}}
[[File:Pataudi Palace.jpg|thumb|270px|View of [[Pataudi Palace]].]]
[[File:Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi 1931cr.jpg|thumb|Last ruling [[Nawab of Pataudi]] and distinguished [[cricket]]er [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi|Iftikhar Ali Khan]].]]
'''Pataudi State''' was a small [[princely state]] in India, established in 1804 during the [[Company rule in India|East India Company rule]] in India.

The state formed a part of the [[Delhi Territory]] in the [[Ceded and Conquered Provinces]]. It was under the [[suzerainty]] of the Commissioner of Delhi. It had an area of 52 square miles and included one town, Pataudi, and 40 villages, ruled by the [[Pataudi family]].

==History==
The state of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the [[British East India Company]], when Faiz Talab Khan, an [[Afghan]] Muslim [[Pashtuns|Pashtun]] of the [[Barech]] tribe, who was made the first Nawab, aided them in their battle against the [[Maratha Empire]], during the [[Second Anglo-Maratha War]].<ref name=hindu>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130316043409/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2003/08/03/stories/2003080300740800.htm The Hindu, Sunday, 3 Aug 2003 - ''Royal vignettes: Pataudi: The Afghan connection'']</ref> The family traces their origin to 16th century India, when their ancestors immigrated from present day [[Afghanistan]] to India during the period of the [[Lodi dynasty]].<ref name=hindu />
The 8th Nawab, [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi]], played cricket for both England and India and captained the latter. His son [[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi|the last Nawab]] also captained the [[India national cricket team|Indian cricket team]].

At the end of the [[British Raj]] and with the [[political integration of India]] in 1948, the princely state of Pataudi was absorbed into the new [[Dominion of India]] (later [[Republic of India]]). In 1971, by virtue of the 26th amendment to the [[Constitution of India]], the Government of India abolished all official symbols of [[princely state|princely India]], including titles, privileges, and remuneration ([[Privy Purse in India|privy purses]]).<ref>'''1.''' {{cite book|last=Ramusack|first=Barbara N.|authorlink=Barbara Ramusack|title=The Indian princes and their states|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA278|accessdate=6 November 2011|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26727-4|page=278}}, "Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the '''titles''', privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p 278). '''2.''' {{citation|last=Naipaul|first=V. S.|authorlink=V. S. Naipaul|title=India: A Wounded Civilization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYeWbmq7pkIC&pg=PT37|accessdate=6 November 2011|date=8 April 2003|publisher=Random House Digital, Inc.|isbn=978-1-4000-3075-0|pages=37–}} Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the breakup of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time. Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialize only in style. A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in 1947, with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in 1971 had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and '''titles'''." (pp 37–38). '''3.''' {{citation|last=Schmidt|first=Karl J.|title=An atlas and survey of South Asian history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzmkFXSgxqgC&pg=PA78|accessdate=6 November 2011|year=1995|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-334-9|page=78}} Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' '''titles''', privileges, and privy purses." (page 78). '''4.''' {{citation|last=Breckenridge|first=Carol Appadurai|authorlink=Carol Breckenridge|title=Consuming modernity: public culture in a South Asian world|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LN4MN35b-r4C&pg=PA84|accessdate=6 November 2011|year=1995|publisher=U of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0-8166-2306-8|pages=84–}} Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in 1971, when the constitution ceased to recognize them as princes and their privy purses, '''titles''', and special privileges were abolished." (page 84). '''5.''' {{citation|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|authorlink=Ramchandra Guha|title=India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2fvd-CaFdqYC&pg=PA441|accessdate=6 November 2011|date=5 August 2008|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-095858-9|pages=441–}} Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through 1971, the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by 381 votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by 167 votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page 441). '''6.''' {{cite book|last=Cheesman|first=David|title=Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, 1865–1901|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtBi1MgVD0AC&pg=PA10|accessdate=6 November 2011|year=1997|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0-7007-0470-5|pages=10–}} Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their '''titles'''." (page 10). '''7.''' {{citation|author=Merriam-Webster, Inc|title=Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Co_VIPIJerIC&pg=PA520|accessdate=6 November 2011|year=1997|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-546-9|pages=520–}} Quote: "'''Indian States''': "Various (formerly) semi-independent areas in India ruled by native princes .... Under British rule ... administered by residents assisted by political agents. Titles and remaining privileges of princes abolished by Indian government 1971." (page 520). '''8.''' {{citation|last=Ward|first=Philip|title=Northern India, Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: a travel guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KubCD2jHjEsC&pg=PA91|accessdate=6 November 2011|date=September 1989|publisher=Pelican Publishing|isbn=978-0-88289-753-0|pages=91–}} Quote: "A monarchy is only as good as the reigning monarch: thus it is with the princely states. Once they seemed immutable, invincible. In 1971 they were "derecognized," their privileges, privy purses and titles all abolished at a stroke" (page 91)</ref><ref>{{Citation|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm|title=The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971|publisher=Government of India|work=indiacode.nic.in|year = 1971|accessdate=9 November 2011}}</ref>

The former [[Pataudi Palace]] was a hotel for some time, but is now owned privately by [[Saif Ali Khan]], the titular head of the family.

==Rulers==
Rulers bore the title of the [[Nawab]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rulers.org/indstat2.html|title=Indian states before 1947 K-W|website=www.rulers.org|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html|title=Indian Princely States K-Z|website=www.worldstatesmen.org|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>

* Faiz Talab Khan (1804–1829)
* Akbar Ali Khan (1829–1862)
* Mohammad Ali Taqi Khan (1862–1867)
* Mohammad Mukhtar Husain Khan (1867–1878)
* Mohammad Mumtaz Husain Ali Khan (1878–1898)
* Mohammad Muzaffar Ali Khan (1898–1913)
* Mohammad Ibrahim Ali Khan (1913–1917)
* [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi|Mohammad Iftikhar Ali Khan]] (1917–1948)
*[[Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi]] (1948–2011) (Title abolished in [[Privy Purse in India|1971]]

==See also==
* [[Political integration of India]]
* [[Afghan diaspora]]
*[[Nawab of Pataudi]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
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[[Category:Muslim princely states of India]]
[[Category:History of Haryana]]
[[Category:Pashtun dynasties]]
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[[Category:Pataudi]]

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