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The '''Princely, Native or Indian States''' are those States in India which remained nominally under the control of their traditional or hereditary rulers.
By treaty, the Indian Government maintained Army cantonments in many of these States. These cantonments appear to have been under direct British control, as part of one of the Bengal, Madras or Bombay Presidencies, and their records were part of the Presidency records. In contrast, Railway Colonies located in Princely States do not appear to have been under British control, and their records were not part of the British records.
==List of main states at Independence==
*[[Rajputana Agency]], 20 states including [[Jaipur]] and [[Jodhpur]]
*[[States of Western India]]
*[[Travancore]]
===Records===
These records appear to be on the [[LDS]] [[IGI|Family Search website]].
'''These records, including images, are also available online on the pay website [[Findmypast|findmypast]]'''. ==Also see==*[[Imperial Service Troops]], later called Indian States Forces.
==External Links==
*''British Enactments in Force in Native States'' by J M Macpherson Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/britishenactmen01indigoog ''Central India''], 2nd edition 1899, [https://archive.org/details/britishenactmen00willgoog ''Rajputana''] 2nd edition 1899, [https://archive.org/details/britishenactmen00indigoog ''Southern India (Hyderabad)''] 2nd edition 1900.
:For possible additional volumes [httphttps://dliarchive.serc.iisc.ernetorg/search.in/discoverphp?filtertype_1query=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=Native&filtertype_2=author&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=+Macpherson&filtertype_3=title&filter_relational_operator_3=contains&filter_3=States&submit_apply_filter=&query=&rpp=100&sort_by=score&order=desc Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India%3A%28British%20Enactments%20in%20Force%20in%20Native%20States%20%29 Archive.org], which appear to include additional volumes.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85432 ''Indian States Register and Directory 1929'' is available to download as a pdf on [http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/handle/OUDL/10242 OUDL (Osmania University Digital Library)]Archive. May only be available Indian office hours (IST 10 am to 6 pm)org, (IST = GMT+5:30). Note that the applicable pdf is file size 59.18Mb. Also available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of IndiaCollection]] website, . Index actual page 641, computer page 654. *Sample pages: [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=riBJH0J1FR0C&pg=PP7 47sfj8DUwNgC ''Indian States: A Biographical, Historical, and Administrative Survey''] edited by Arnold Wright 1922 Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.29448 ''The Princes Of India with a Chapter on Nepal''] by Sir William Barton 1934. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.114662/page/n1 ''Palace Days: the adventures and misadventures of a Guardian to a Rajah's heir''] by R B Van Wart [Reginald Bramley] 1934. Archive.org. His role included being a tutor and performing an administrative assistant type role, and, at the end of the book, he was involved with the 1911 Delhi Durbar. His account starts approximately 3 years prior to this. The author was admitted to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 3 June 1925 at which time he was Principal, Rajput Schools, Jodhpur, Indian Education Service. *[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136975 ''The Indian States and Princes''] by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1936 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/princelyindiaikn0000corf/page/n7 ''The Princely India I knew, from Reading to Mountbatten''] by Sir Conrad Corfield, former Political Adviser to the Viceroy. 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Published by the Indo British Historical Society. The author was the last official head of the Indian Political Service, which he had joined in 1925 after preliminary service in the Punjab Province from 1921.
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