Samthar State

{{Short description|Indian princely state}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}

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|event_end= Accession to the Union of India

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Samthar State was a 11 gun salute princely state in India during the British Raj.

The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand Agency of Central India. Its capital was Samthar town, located in a level plain in the Bundelkhand region crossed by the Pahuj and the Betwa rivers. The Samthar State was ruled by Bargujar Rajput clan.{{cite book |last1=Vadivelu |first1=A. |title=The Ruling Chiefs, Nobles & Zamindars of India |date=1915 |publisher=G.C. Loganadham |pages=331 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PeeRRf0EhnIC&q=samthar+bargujar |access-date=3 May 2025 |language=en|quote=Samthar ruling family descanded from Bar-gujar clan. One Suraj Bans was the founder.}}{{cite book |last1=Kushwaha |first1=Rajendra Singh |title=Glimpses of Bhāratiya History |date=2003 |publisher=Ocean Books |isbn=978-81-88322-40-4 |pages=437 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDZuAAAAMAAJ&q=samthar+bargujar |access-date=3 May 2025 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Manglik |first1=Mr Rohit |title=Tourism Resources of Uttar Pradesh: [9789368751618] |date=15 September 2023 |publisher=EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd. |isbn=978-93-6875-161-8 |pages=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vK8zEQAAQBAJ&dq=samthar+bargujar&pg=RA4-PA17 |access-date=3 May 2025 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=P |first1=Kabad: Waman |title=Indian Who's who |publisher=Yeshanand & Company |pages=296 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIkyQEfSH70C&q=samthar+bargujar |access-date=3 May 2025 |language=en|quote=SAMTHAR . ( CI . ) His Highness Maharaja Sir Bir Singh Deo Bahadur , K.C.I.E , Bargujar , b . Aug. 26 , 1864 ; suc . June 17 , 1896 : area , 178 sq . miles ; population , 33,307 ; annual revenue , Rs . 3,40,000}}

The founder was Ranjith Singh who in 1760, profiting from the troubled times of the Maratha invasion, proclaimed his state independent and was acknowledged as a Raja by the Marathas. In 1817 Samthar was recognized as a state by the British.{{cite book|author=Sir Roper Lethbridge|title=The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled Or Decorated of the Indian Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7iOsNUZ2MXgC&pg=PA475|year=2005|publisher=Aakar Books|isbn=978-81-87879-54-1|page=475}} They received a sanad of adoption in 1862. In 1884 the state had to cede some territories for the construction of the railways.[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_030.gif Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 22, p. 24.] In 1947 it signed Instrument of Accession merging into Union of India in August 1947.{{cite book |last1=Assembly (Legislative) |first1=India Constituent |title=The Constituent Assembly of India (Legislative) Debates: Official Report |date=1947 |publisher=Manager of Publications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbKWcuF8HqEC&q=Samthar+ACCESSION |access-date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}

Samthar Fort once the center of governance is still being used as residence by royal family.{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Shalini |title=Profiles in Indian Tourism |date=1996 |publisher=APH Publishing |isbn=978-81-7024-748-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdHeLJPyiF0C&dq=Samthar+fort&pg=PA206 |access-date=8 May 2025 |language=en}}