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{{Short description|Princely State in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
| conventional_long_name = State of Sarila
| common_name = Sarila State
| nation = [[British India]]
| subdivision = [[Princely State]]
| capital = [[Sarila]]
| era =
| year_start = 1755
| date_start =
| event_start =
| year_end = 1947
| date_end =
| event_end = [[Independence of India|Accession to the Union of India]]
| event1 =
| date_event1 =
| p1 =
| s1 = India
| flag_p1 =
| flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
| image_flag =
| image_coat = Coat_of_Arms_of_the_Sarila.png
| image_map =
| image_map_caption = | stat_area1 = 90.6496
| stat_year1 = 1881
| stat_pop1 = 5,014
| stat_year2 = 1891
| stat_pop2 = 5,622
| stat_year3 = 1901
| stat_pop3 = 6,298
| footnotes =
}}
The '''State of Sarila''' was a non-salute [[princely state]] under the [[Bundelkhand Agency]]. Currently, [[Sarila]] town, the state's capital, is part of [[Uttar Pradesh]].

Following [[partition of India]] in 1947, [[Mahipal Singh Ju Deo]], the last ruler of the state, signed the [[Instrument of Accession]], whereby he acceded his state to the [[Dominion of India|Union of India]].

== History ==
Sarila State was founded by [[Aman Singh Bundela|Aman Singh]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=India |first=Central |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_8bAQAAIAAJ |title=The Central India State Gazetteer Series |date=1907 |publisher=Thacker, Spink |pages=173, 203 |language=en}}</ref> [[Aman Singh Bundela|Aman]] was the son of Pahar Singh and the grandson of [[Chhatrasal]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Not Available |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34582/ |title=Memoranda On The Indian States 1930 |date=1933 |pages=51}}</ref> Pahar Singh sent Aman to occupy [[Sarila]] where Aman built a fortress between 1755 and 1760.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sarila |first=Narendra Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnAwAQAAIAAJ |title=Once a Prince of Sarila: Of Palaces and Tiger Hunts, of Nehrus and Mountbattens |date=2008-04-15 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-84511-707-8 |pages=4–5,103–104,109,291 |language=en}}</ref>

The state became a [[British protectorate]] in 1807.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ramusack |first=Barbara N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC |title=The Indian Princes and their States |date=2004-01-08 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44908-3 |pages=72 |language=en}}</ref> Following the independence of [[India]], Sarila was merged on 4 April 1948 with 34 other states to form [[Vindhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_RodAQAAMAAJ |title=The Indian and Pakistan Year Book |date=1951 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company |pages=482–483 |language=en}}</ref>

== List of rulers ==
The rulers are [[Rajput|Rajputs]] of the [[Bundela]] family.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cotton |first=James Sutherland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xndDAAAAYAAJ |title=Imperial Gazetteer of India |last2=Burn |first2=Sir Richard |last3=Meyer |first3=Sir William Stevenson |date=1908 |publisher=Clarendon Press |pages=108 |language=en}}</ref> They held the title of Raja.<ref>{{Cite book |last=T |first=J. P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTSy_conpsQC |title=“A” Juvenile History of Charkhari |date=1886 |publisher=Babus Ganés Das & Company, Booksellers |pages=16, 107 |language=en}}</ref> Below is the list of rulers and titular rulers:

=== Rulers ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''Name'''
!Reign began
!Reign ended
!'''Notes'''
|-
|[[Aman Singh Bundela|Aman Singh]]
|1755
|1788
|Founded the state
|-
|[[Tej Singh Ju Deo|Tej Singh]]
|1788
|1818
|
|-
|Anirudh Singh
|1818
|1842
|
|-
|Hindupat Singh
|1842
|1871
|
|-
|Khallak Singh
|1871
|1882
|
|-
|[[Pahar Singh Ju Deo|Pahar Singh]]
|19 August 1882
|1898
|
|-
|[[Mahipal Singh Ju Deo]]
|11 September 1898
|1970
|
|}

=== Titular ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Reign began
!Reign ended
!Notes
|-
|[[Mahipal Singh Ju Deo]]
|1970
|January 1983
|
|-
|Narendra Singh Ju Deo
|January 1983
|7 July 2011
|
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Sources and further reading ==

* [https://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_princes_K-W.html#Sarila Princely States of India K-Z]

[[Category:Rajput history]]
[[Category:States and territories established in 1755]]
[[Category:States and territories disestablished in 1947]]
[[Category:British Empire]]

Sarila (state) - Revision history

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