Princely states

The Princely, Native or Indian States.

List of main states at Independence

• Baluchistan Agency
• Baroda
• Central India Agency , 148 states including Gwalior and Rewah
• Eastern States Agency
• Hyderabad, the Nizam's Dominions
• Kashmir and Jammu
• Mysore
• Punjab States Agency
• Rajputana Agency, 20 states including Jaipur and Jodhpur
• States of Western India

External Links

List of Indian Princely States Wikipedia

Records

British Library APAC records

• Baptisms, Marriages and Burials - Indian (Princely) States 1890-1946, N/5, which consists of two volumes only. The index to these records is a single, slim volume.

Sylvia Murphy advised: They are original records and the forms have been completed in a variety of different cramped handwriting and writing materials, making many of them very difficult to read. However, the amount of information provided, particularly in the case of death, is often considerably more detailed than that found in the usual presidency returns. These records are identified in the general Z/N series of indexes. There is also a name and date index from 1923-1950 to be found on LDS film 498603; and the entire set of records is contained on two films 527422 and 527423.

These records appear to be on the LDS beta Family Search website, refer IGI

Historical books online

• India and its native princes. Travels in Central India and in the presidencies of Bombay and Bengal by Louis Rousselet New edition 1882 Archive.org. First published 1876, relates to travels in c 1865-1866
• Indian States Register and Directory 1929 is available to download as a pdf on OUDL (Osmania University Digital Library). Note that the applicable pdf is file size 59.18Mb. Also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, Index actual page 641, computer page 654.