MARATHA State SAHARANPUR Silver Rupee INDIA -bo39 Very Popular variety. Many Mint Marks. Start Price INR 2,500.00 Current Price INR 2,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 14, 2008 Location Singapore See more about 'MARATHA State SAHARANPUR Silver Rupee INDIA -bo39' Description PayPal—eBay's service to make fast, easy, and secure payments for your eBay purchases! Princely states A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince and is thus a principality taken in the broad sense. The term refers not only to sovereign nations ruled by monarchs but also to lower polities ruled by various high nobles (often vassals in a feudal system). Such states may be sovereign or not and their reigning 'princes' may actually rule or be reduced in power, as under colonial indirect rule, sometimes becoming mere figureheads. Specifically, the term "Princely States" (also called "Native States" or "Indian States") was used to refer to sovereign entities of British India that were not under the direct control of the British government but instead entered into treaties directly with the British monarch. Main use In English, the term "princely state" generally refers to a historical native state of the British Empire under an autochthonous princely house, while the term principality is preferred for analogous western feudal units. Historically there were hundreds of native states in British India and in some other parts of the British Empire (mainly under the chartered British East India Company). These states were mostly brought into the British colonial sphere of influence by the East India Company, and after 1858 formally under the British crown, which assumed the role of paramount ruler and the title of "Emperor of India" as political (not dynastic) self-declared heir to the Padshah i-Hind of the former Mughal dynasty. Unlike the British Provinces of India such as Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Central Provinces, United Provinces, which were ruled directly by the British government, rulers of princely states had treaty arrangements directly with their personal suzerain, the British Monarch. These treaties allowed a degree of local autonomy, and each state had its own laws, languages, holidays, ministers and princely ruler. Each was still under British protection and was thus essentially a vassal state. At the time of independence in 1947 a few hundred[1] such states existed in British India. 565 states were represented in a special chamber of the Indian legislative assembly called the Chamber of Princes. Princely status and titles The Indian rulers bore various titles — including Maharaja ("great king"), Badshah ("emperor"), Raja ("king"), Nawab ("governor"), Nizam, Wali, and many others. Whatever the literal meaning and traditional prestige of the ruler's actual title, the British government translated them all as "prince," in order to avoid the implication that the native rulers could be "kings" with status equal to that of the British monarch. The least prestigious Hindu rulers often used the title Thakur or its variant Thakore. More prestigious Hindu rulers -mostly existing before the Mughal Empire, or having split from such old states- often used the title "Raja," or a variant such as "Rana," "Rao," "Rawat" or "Rawal." Also in this 'class' were several Thakur sahibs and a few particular titles, such as Sar Desai. The most prestigious Hindu rulers usually had the prefix "maha" ("great", compare for example Grand duke) in their titles, as in Maharaja, Maharana, Maharao, etc. The state of Travancore-Cochin had queens regnant styled Maharani, generally the female forms applied only to spouses and widows, who could however act as regents. There were also compound titles, such as (Maha)rajadhiraj, Raj-i-rajgan, often relics from an elaborate system of hierarchical titles under the Mughal emperors. For example, the addition of the adjective Bahadur raised the status of the titleholder one level. Furthermore most dynasties used a variety of additional titles, such as, mainly? in South India: Varma. This should not be confused with various titles and suffixes not specific to princes but used by entire (sub)casts. The Sikh princes (a syncretic religion, mixing many elements from Hinduism and Islam; politically concentrated in Punjab) usually adopted Hindu type titles when attaining princely rank; at a lower level Sardar was used. Muslim rulers almost all used the title "Nawab" (originally the title of an amovable governor under real Mughal rule, but soon tending to hereditary succession whenever Delhi/Agra lost effective control over the province) with the prominent exceptions of the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, the Wali/Khan of Kalat and the Wali of Swat. Other less usual titles included Darbar Sahib, Dewan, Jam, Mehtar (unique to Chitral) and Mir (from Emir).            INTRODUCTION        Rare Coins are the hottest new game in the world of high finance. Surveys show that over the last two decades, they've outperformed all other major forms of investment. Stocks and bonds . . . Oil . . . Old master paintings. real estate . . . Diamonds-none of these has done better than rare coins. 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