Maihar State

Maihar State
Maihar State
Princely State of British India
1778–1948
	; Maihar State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India
Area
• 1940	1,054 km2 (407 sq mi)
Population
• 1940	79,558
History
• Established	1778
• Accession to the Union of India	1948
	Succeeded by
India
	Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer. p.1122

Maihar State was a princely state in India during the British Raj, located in what is today Madhya Pradesh, central India. The state had an area of 1,050 square kilometres (407 sq mi), and a population of 63,702 in 1901. The state, which was watered by the Tons River, consists mainly of alluvial soil covering sandstone, and is fertile except in the hilly district of the south.^[1] A large area was under forest, the produce of which provided a small export trade.^[1]

The state gained India-wide and later, worldwide fame for Maihar gharana, a gharana or school of Indian classical music. It is one of the most prominent gharanas of the 20th century; much of the fame of Hindustani classical music in the west stems from this gharana.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maihar" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 429.
^ Nair, Jyoti (15 March 2018). "The Maihar gharana is represented by Pt. Ravi Shankar". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[EB1911-1] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Maihar" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 429.

[Hindu-2] Nair, Jyoti (15 March 2018). "The Maihar gharana is represented by Pt. Ravi Shankar". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

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