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BRITISH INDIA'S SALUTE STATES AND EQUIVALENTS Salute states in present India The gun salutes enjoyed by the states that acceded to the Dominion of India on 14th of August 1947, were: Hereditary salutes of 21-guns:
''Although salutes with many mote guns have been used for Western Monarchs (and dynastic and other associated occasions), the 21-gun Salute has in modern times become customary for Sovereign Monarchs (hence also known as 'royal salute') and republics'' Hereditary salutes of 19-guns (21-guns local):
Hereditary salutes of 19-guns:
Hereditary salutes of 17-guns (19-guns personal): only H.H. the Maharaja of Kotah Hereditary salutes of 17-guns (19-guns local):
Hereditary salutes of 17-guns:
Hereditary salutes of 15-guns (17-guns personal): only H.H. the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur Hereditary salutes of 15-guns (17-guns local): only H.H. the Maharaja of Alwar Hereditary salutes of 15-guns:
Hereditary salutes of 13-guns (15-guns personal and local):
Hereditary salutes of 13-guns (15-guns local):
Hereditary salutes of 13-guns:
Hereditary salutes of 11-guns (13-guns local): only H.H. the Nawab of Janjira (formerly Thanadar of Jafarabad (Jafrabad) and Wasir of Janjira) Hereditary salutes of 11-guns:
Hereditary salutes of 9-guns (11-guns personal): Hereditary salute of 9-guns (11-guns local): only H.H. the Sar Desai of Savantwadi Hereditary salutes of 9-guns:
Personal salute of 9-guns: only The Raja of Bashahr Some of the rulers not listed above were granted increased gun salutes after the independence, e.g. the Maharana of Mewar (Hindu; at Udaipur, Maharajpramukh in Rajasthan) was raised to first place in the Order of Precedence, displacing the Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar (Muslim), and all 9-gun states were permitted the use of the style of Highness. However, it has not been possible to obtain complete details for all the rulers. Salute states in present Pakistan Twelve Muslim princely states in western India acceded on 14 August 1947 to the Dominion (a republic since 1948) of Pakistan as devised by independence from British India . Over time, they were amalgamated into larger federations and provinces culminating in the establishment of two large provinces, East and West Pakistan. Most of the princely states in the western part of the country merged into the Province of West Pakistan (the present Pakistan, the only other province then was East Pakistan, present Bangladesh) at is creation on 14 October 1955. Although some frontier states continued to be administered as separate units, these were eliminated in 1971; all styles and titles enjoyed by the former ruling families ceased to be officially recognised by the Government of Pakistan in January 1972. The order of precedence of the Salute States that acceded to Pakistan in 1947 was as follows:
After several promotions and two further post-colonial awardings -which India didn't do as a republic- the gun salutes enjoyed by the states in Pakistan were as follows in 1966:
Salute dynasties on the Indian subcontinent without states Personal salute of 11-guns: only H.H. the Aga Khan (in fact a religious leader of the Nizari Ismaili branch of Islam), the only salute not attached to any territorial principality Furthermore salutes were awarded to certain Political Pensioner s, notably:
ELSEWHERE Unfortunately these data had to be scrambled together from different sources, mainly one concerning the 1912 situation which seems to ignore the differences between hereditary, personal and local salutes.
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