Saraikela State

Saraikella State
Princely State of British India
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Saraikela State in a 1909
Imperial Gazetteer of India map
CapitalSaraikela
Area 
• 1892
1,163 km2 (449 sq mi)
• 1901
1,162 km2 (449 sq mi)
• 1941
1,210 km2 (470 sq mi)
Population 
• 1872
66,347
• 1891
93,839
• 1901
104,539
• 1941
154,844
History 
• Established
1620
15 August 1947
13 December 1948
• Merged with Bihar
1 August 1949
 Succeeded by
India
Today part ofSaraikela Kharsawan district, Jharkhand

Saraikela State also spelt Seraikela, Saraikella or Seraikella, was a small princely state in India during the British Raj, in what is now the Seraikela-Kharsawan district of the Jharkhand state. Its capital was at Saraikela.

The state had an area of 1163 km2 which yielded an average revenue of Rs. 92,000 in 1901, and was one of the nine Chota Nagpur States, a group of small, non-salute states (minor princely states), under the authority of the governor of Bengal Presidency. The last ruler of the state, Raja Aditya Pratap Singh Deo, signed the merger agreement acceding to the Indian Union on 18 May 1948.

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