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JHALAWAR , a native See also:state of See also:India, in the See also:Rajputana agency, pop. (1901), 90,175; estimated See also:revenue, £26,000; See also:tribute, £2000. See also:Area, 810 sq. in. The ruling See also:family of Jhalawar belongs to the Jhala See also:clan of Rajputs, and their ancestors were See also:petty chiefs of Halwad in the See also:district of Jhalawar, in See also:Kathiawar. About 1709 one of the younger sons of the See also:head of the clan See also:left his See also:country with his son to try his fortunes at See also:Delhi. At See also:Kotah he left his son Madhu Singh, who soon became a favourite with the maharaja, and received from him an important See also:post, which became hereditary. On the See also:death of one of the Kotah rajas (1771), the country was left to the See also:charge of Zalim Singh, a descendant of Madhu Singh. From that See also:time Zalim Singh was the real ruler of Kotah. He brought it to a wonderful state of prosperity, and under his See also:administration, which lasted over See also:forty-five years, the Kotah territory was respected by all parties. In 1838 it was resolved, with the consent of the See also:chief of Kotah, to dismember the state, and to create the new principality of Jhalawar as a See also:separate See also:provision for the descendants of Zalim Singh. The districts then severed from Kotah were considered to represent one-third (£120,000) of the income of Kotah; by treaty they acknowledged the supremacy of the See also:British, and agreed to pay an See also:annual tribute of £8000. See also:Madan Singh received the See also:title of maharaja rana, and was placed on the same footing as the other chiefs in Rajputana. He died in 1845. An adopted son of his successor took the name of Zalim Singh in 1875 on becoming chief of Jhalawar. He was a See also:minor and was not invested with governing powerk till 1884. Owing to his maladministration, his relations with the British See also:government became strained, and he was finally deposed in 1896, " on See also:account of persistent misgovernment and proved unfitness for the See also:powers of a ruling chief." He went to live at See also:Benares, on a See also:pension of £2000; and the administration was placed in the hands of the British See also:resident. After much See also:consideration, the government resolved in 1897 to break up the state, restoring the greater See also:part to Kotah, but forming the two districts of See also:Shahabad and the Chaumahla into a new state, which came into existence in 1899, and of which Kunwar Bhawani Singh, a descendant of the See also:original Zalim Singh, was appointed chief. The chief See also:town is See also:PATAN, Or JHALRAPATAN (pop.7955), founded See also:close to an old site by Zalim Singh in 1796, by the See also:side of an artificial See also:lake. It is the centre of See also:trade, the chief exports of the state being See also:opium, oil-seeds and See also:cotton. The See also:palace is at the See also:cantonment or chhaoni, 4 M. See also:north. The See also:ancient site near the town was occupied by the See also:city of Chandrawati, said to have been destroyed in the time of See also:Aurangzeb. The finest feature of its remains is the See also:temple of Sitaleswar Mahadeva (c. 600). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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