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The '''Raja of Manchuru''', is an Indian title of nobility. It originally designated the feudal lord of the '''[[Manchuru]] Estate'''.<ref> https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lehs301.pdf </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www3.metmuseum.org/blogs/of-note/2014/raja-tagore|title=Raja Tagore: Renaissance Man of Indian Music|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V08_239.gif|title=Imperial Gazetteer2 of India, Volume 8, page 233 -- Imperial Gazetteer of India -- Digital South Asia Library|website=dsal.uchicago.edu}}</ref><ref><br />
Modern Asian Studies Vol. 17, No. 4 (1983) </ref><br />
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{{Infobox nobility title<br />
| name = Raja of Manchuru<br />
| creation_date = c.1800<br />
| creation = [[Zamindari]] of [[British India]]<br />
| baronetage = <br />
| first_holder = <br />
| last_holder = <br />
| present_holder = Bharathi Rajendran, 8th Rani of Manchuru<br />
| heir_apparent = [[Yuvaraja]] [[Rohan Rajendran-Morris]]<br />
| heir_presumptive = <br />
| remainder_to = Heirs of the body whatsoever<br />
| status = Extant<br />
| extinction_date = <br />
| family_seat =<br />
| former_seat = Rajendran Mansion<br />
| motto =<br />
| footnotes = <br />
}}<br />
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[[File:Rajendran_Mansion.jpg|thumb|300px|Rajendran Mansion, former seat of the 8th Rani of Manchuru ]]<br />
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==List of Rajas of Manchuru==<br />
(Preceding geneological records are vague, however local estimates place '''five title holders''' before this)<br />
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- Govindarajulu Kalikiri-Reddy, 6th Raja of Manchuru<br />
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- Venkataswamy Kalikiri-Reddy, 7th Raja of Manchuru <br />
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''In 1947, the British Raj was replaced by a republic. Under the Indian Constitution adopted in 1950, titles of nobility are not legally recognised; only being held titularly, however these titles were never formally abolished in the British sense.''<br />
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- Bharathi Rajendran, 8th Rani of Manchuru<br />
==Post-abolition status==<br />
The title was legally extinguished in 1950 by the enactment of Article 18 of the [[Indian Constitution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Article 18: Abolition of titles |url=https://www.constitutionofindia.net/articles/article-18-abolition-of-titles/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Constitution of India |language=en-US}}</ref> However, there are documented cases of usage as a [[courtesy title]], especially in [[ceremonial]] contexts, since then.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4381686 | jstor=4381686 | title=Princes in Indian Politics | last1=Richter | first1=William L. | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | date=1971 | volume=6 | issue=9 | pages=535–542 }}</ref><br />
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