Taraon State

Taraon State
ताराओं रियासत
Princely Estate (Jagir)
1812–1948 →
Taraon (Tarahwan) in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
History
 • Established 1812
 • Independence of India 1948
Area
 • 1901 67.33 km2 (26 sq mi)
Population
 • 1901 3,178 
Density 47.2 /km2  (122.2 /sq mi)
Today part of Uttar Pradesh, India
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Taraon, also spelt 'Tarahwan' and 'Tarahuhān', was a princely estate (Jagir) in India during the British Raj.[1] It had an area of 67 square miles and its population was distributed in 13 villages. The capital of the state was in Pathraundi, located about 1.5 km from Karwi railway station of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.[2]

Taraon Estate was merged into the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1948. The area covered by the former state is now in modern Chitrakoot district, at the southern end of Uttar Pradesh.

History

Taraon was founded in 1812 and was located in Taraon Fort, which had been a former possession of the Rajas of Panna State. It was one of the Chaube Jagirs.

It was under the Bundelkhand Agency of the Central India Agency until 1896 when it was transferred to the Baghelkhand Agency. In 1931 Taraon was transferred back to the Bundelkhand Agency.

Rulers

Taraon's rulers bore the title 'Chaube'.[3]

Chaubes

See also

References

  1. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 250.
  2. ↑ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908
  3. ↑ Taraon - Indian Princely States

Coordinates: 24°59′N 80°57′E / 24.983°N 80.950°E / 24.983; 80.950

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