Place · Rathore princely-state capital · India
Ratlam
Also known as Ratlam
The historic city of Ratlam in Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh, 350 kilometres from Indore. The 1652 Ratlam princely state was founded by Ratan Singh Rathore, a Jodhpur Rathore prince whose grandfather Sawai Udai Singh had been a Mughal commander. The Ratlam Rathores ruled continuously until the 1947 integration with India. The city is a major Malwa commercial centre on the Mumbai-Delhi western railway line, famous for Ratlami sev (GI tag 2014, the hand-made spiced noodle snack) and for being the global centre of the Jain Oswal merchant community. The 1948 Ratlam Satyagraha (one of India's earliest princely-state integration crises) resulted in the Ratlam state's merger into Madhya Bharat.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Patron dynasty
- Rathore · Indian Union
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.334, 75.038
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencyUjjain / Avantikā
Ratlam and Ujjain sit 100 kilometres apart on the Malwa plateau of western Madhya Pradesh. Both cities are on the Mumbai-Delhi western railway (electrified 1958) and were key Malwa commercial centres under Mughal, Maratha (Scindia at Ujjain, Rathore at Ratlam) and British rule. The 1652 Ratlam Rathore state (1652-1947) and the 18-century Scindia state at Ujjain-Gwalior together frame the Malwa princely-state political geography that was integrated as Madhya Bharat in 1948.
Sources
Standard reference; district gazetteer and Wikipedia.
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