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Site Name: Dewas (Senior Branch)

Date: 1951 CE

Subject: Maharaja Vikramsinha Rao Paur gave up this gaddi to become Maharaja Shahaji Chhatrapati of Kolhapur in 1947. [Stamped Paper]

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Date: 1951 CE

Subject: Top to bottom: Maharajas of Bikaner, Idar, Indore, Hyderabad, Nepal and Balrampur; A. Vivian Mansell & Co., London and Manchester. The Maharaja of Balrampur was titled but his zamindary was part of British India, not Princely States. The maharajas and nawabs of such places had no sovereign powers as did the princes of true states. The Maharaja of Nepal is included, though Nepal was an independent kingdom, because of the history of friendship between the British Government and Nepal. [Ruling Princes of India]

Site Name: Jodhpur

Date: ca 1947 CE

Subject: Agit Singh was the brother of Maharaja Umed Singh. These fiscals were used in courts on his estates within Jodhpur. [Ajit Singhi Estate: Agit Singh Prime Minister of Jodhpur in 1947]

Site Name: Mysore

Date: 1951 CE

Subject: Above: drawing used for revenue stamp; below: stamp depicting Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar [Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar (r. 1895 - 1940)]

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Date: 1911 CE

Subject: Card printed in Germany and issued by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Delhi. [The camp of the Maharaja of Baroda at the 1911 Coronation Durbar]

Site Name: Varanasi (Benaras)

Date: 1951 CE

Subject: The English divested his ancestors of most of their land leaving only family domains and titles. In 1910, his father was elevated to the status of a ruling prince. [Benares State Court Fee, Engraver's Proof of Court Fee Stamp of Maharaja Aditya Narayan Singh]