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State · 1657 – 1948

Malerkotla State

A state of 1657 – 1948 — 291 years in South Asia. It was replaced by India. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
291 years
1657 – 1948
Rulers
2
the Nawab of Malerkotla

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000India: 1950 – 2026Malerkotla State: 1657 – 1948

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

  • India · replaced by · 1950 – present

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Ahmad Ali Khan of Malerkotla · 1908 – 1947 · no death date to read the end againstIftikhar Ali Khan of Malerkotla · 1947 – 1982 · no death date to read the end against17001750180018501900
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Ahmad Ali Khan of Malerkotla1908 – 194739 yearsending not on record
Iftikhar Ali Khan of Malerkotla1947 – 198235 yearsending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1908 – 1982. Median reign 37 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood291 years

    stood longer than 72% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 43% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median39 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 92% of 1,083 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record2

    has more rulers on record than 31% of 2,060 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

British India · Coincidence · 1650 – 1947British IndiaMalerkotla State · 1657 – 1948Malerkotla StateIndia · Linked · 1950 – 2026India1700180019002000
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q11934705 (CC0) · data built 2026-10-07 · Pastlas v2.13.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.