Alirajpur State was formerly a princely state

Princely state

A Princely State was a nominally sovereign entitity of British rule in India that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.-British relationship with the Princely States:India under the British Raj ...

 of India, administratively under the Bhopawar Agency

Bhopawar Agency

Bhopawar was an sub-agency of the Central India Agency in British India with the headquarters at the town of Bhopawar , so the name . Bhopawar Agency was created in 1882 from a number of princely states in the Western Nimar and Southern Malwa regions of Central India , which included :-# Dhar.#*...

 subdivision of the Central India Agency

Central India Agency

The Central India Agency was a political office of the British Indian Empire, which covered the northern half of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. The Central India Agency was made up entirely of princely states, which were under native rulers...

. The state covered an area of 2165 square kilometres, with a population of 50,185 in 1901. Its Hindu

Hindu

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 rulers were styled Raja

Raja

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, and were entitled to an 11-gun salute. The flag consisting of 12 red and white horizontal stripes.

The principality was founded in the 1437 by the Rajput

Rajput

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 Rathore

Rathore

The Rathore is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan same caste as Lohana. Their Kuldevi is Nagnechiya Mata and "Karani Mata". Rathores are originally from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh. Rathores are historically considered the samurais of India...

 dynasty.　The last ruler of Ali Rajpur was Surendra Singh, who subsequently served as the Ambassador

Ambassador

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 of India to Spain

Spain

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 in the 1980s.　After Indian independence in 1947, Ali Rajpur acceded to the Union of India, and the principality was incorporated into the new state of Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat

Madhya Bharat , also known as Malwa Union was an Indian state in west-central India, created on 28 May 1948 from twenty-five princely states which until 1947 had been part of the Central India Agency, with Jivaji Rao Scindia as its Rajpramukh...

, which subsequently became Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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state on November 1, 1956.