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{{Infobox former subdivision
|native_name =बावनी रियासत / باونی ریاست
|conventional_long_name = Baoni State
|common_name = Baoni
|nation = [[British India]]
|subdivision = [[Princely State]]
|era =
|year_start = 1784
|date_start =
|event_start=
|year_end = 1948
|date_end =
|event_end= [[Partition of India|Indian independence]]
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|p1 = Maratha Empire
|s1 = India
|flag_p1 = Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg
|flag_s1 = Flag of India.svg
|image_flag = Drapeau Baoni.png
|image_coat = Baoni State CoA.png
|image_map = Beri-Bijna-Tori Fatehpur map.jpg
|image_map_caption =Baoni State ([[Kadaura]]) in the [[Imperial Gazetteer of India]]
|motto = '"Al hukumu lilah wāl mulk Lilāh"'' <br> (Rulership and dominion belongs to God)
|stat_area1 =313
|stat_year1 = 1901
|stat_pop1 = 19,780
|footnotes = ''[[The Imperial Gazetteer of India]]''<ref>Hunter, Sir William Wilson; Trübner & Co., London 1885</ref>
}}
[[File:Baoni-royal flag.png|thumb|[[Royal standard]] of the Nawab of Baoni.<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/in-baoni.html Baoni-Bundelkhand – Fotw]</ref>]]
'''Baoni State''' was a [[princely state]] in [[India]] during the [[British Raj]].{{cn|date=June 2020}} It was a small [[sanad (deed)|sanad]] state, the only [[Muslim]]-ruled one in [[Bundelkhand Agency]]. Its ruler was granted the right to an 11-[[gun salute]]. The Baoni royal family claim to be descendants of the [[Asaf Jahi]] dynasty of [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]], tracing its origins to [[Abu Bakr]], the first Islamic caliph.<ref>{{Cite book
| last1 = Hunter |first1= Sir William Hunter |last2=Cotton |first2=James Sutherland |first3=Richard |last3=Burn |first4=William Stevenson |last4=Meyer
| title = ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India''
| work =
| publisher = Great Britain India Office, Clarendon Press|location=Oxford |year=1908
}}</ref>

Baoni was located in the [[Betwa]]-[[Yamuna]] ''[[doab]]'', [[Uttar Pradesh]], with [[Kadaura]] as its seat of government.
The state was bounded on the north by the district of [[Kanpur Nagar district|Cawnpore]], in the west by the district of [[Jalaun district|Jalaun]] and to the south and east by the district of [[Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh|Hamirpur]] of the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] —as well as a little part in the south-east by [[Beri State]].<ref name="IGI">[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_420.gif Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 414.]</ref> The word 'Baoni' originated in the [[Hindustani language]] word ''Baon'', meaning 52 (fifty-two),<ref>[http://thebaonistate.blogspot.com/ The Baoni State]</ref> and referring to the number of villages that were included in the original ''sanad'' at the time when it was granted. Baoni had a population of 19,780 inhabitants in 1901, of whom 87% were [[Hindu]] and 12% Muslim.<ref name="IGI"/>

==History==
Baoni State was founded in 1784 by Imad al-Din al-Mulk Ghazi Khan, from a branch of the [[Asaf Jahi]] dynasty related to the [[Nizam]], and Wazir of the [[Mughal Empire]]. At that time he made a deal with the [[Maratha]] [[Peshwa]] and received a ''[[jagir]]'' of 52 villages near [[Kalpi]].

The state became a [[British protectorate]] in 1806, following the defeat of the [[Maratha Confederacy]]. The capital was moved from Kalpi to [[Kadaura]] after 1815.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

The last ruler, Muhammad al-Hasan Mushtaq, signed the [[instrument of accession]] to the [[Dominion of India|Indian Union]] on 15 August 1947 and continued to rule the state that joined the Union of States of [[Vindhya Pradesh]] on 2 April 1948, remaining as head of state until 31 December 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/b/baoni.html |title=Baoni Princely State (11 gun salute) |access-date=21 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423033502/http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/b/baoni.html |archive-date=23 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Rulers===
All rulers of Baoni State bore the title of ''[[Nawab]]''.{{cn|date=June 2020}}

*1784 – 1 September 1800 [[Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III]] (b. 1736 – d. 1800)
* 1 September 1800 – 11 May 1815 Naser ad-Dowla (b. c.1756 – d. 1815)
*11 May 1815 – 18 October 1838 Amir al-Molk (d. 1838)
*18 Oct 1838 – 18 August 1859 Mohammad Hosayn (d. 1859)
*18 Aug 1859 – 5 October 1883 Emam ad-Dowla Hosayn (d. 1895)
* 5 October 1883 – 27 June 1893 Mohammad Hasan Khan (b. 1863 – d. 1893)
*27 Jun 1893 – 27 October 1911 Riaz al-Hasan Khan (b. 1876 – d. 1911) (recognized 2 August 1894)
*27 Oct 1911 – 15 August 1947 Mohammad Moshtaq al-Hasan Khan (b. 1896 – d. 1977)
*Nawab Mustaqul Hasan
*Nawab Adeel Hasan
*Nawab Nabeel Hasan

== See also ==
*[[Kadaura]]
*[[Nizam of Hyderabad]]
*[[List of Sunni Muslim dynasties]]
*[[Mahseer#In heraldry|Mahseer in heraldry]]

== References==
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==External links==
*{{commonscat inline}}
*[http://memim.com/baoni-state.html Pictures of Baoni State]
*[http://trip-suggest.com/india/uttar-pradesh/kadaura/ Kadaura Destination Guide]
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[[Category:Jalaun district]]

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