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DEWAS , two native states of See also:

India, in the See also:Malwa See also:Political See also:Charge of Central India, founded in the first See also:half of the 18th See also:century by two See also:brothers, Punwar See also:Mahrattas, who came into Malwa with the See also:peshwa, Baji See also:Rao, in 1728. Their descendants are known as the See also:senior and junior branches of the See also:family, and since 1841 each has ruled his own portion as a See also:separate See also:state, though the lands belonging to each are so intimately entangled, that even in Dewas, the See also:capital See also:town, the two sides of the See also:main See also:street are under different administrations and have different arrangements for See also:water See also:supply and See also:lighting. The senior See also:branch has an See also:area of 446 sq. m. and a See also:population of 62,312, while the area of the junior branch is 440 sq. m. and its population 54,904.

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