Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1817 – 1949

Tonk State

A state of 1817 – 1949 — 132 years in South Asia. It replaced Maratha Empire. It was replaced by India. Its own article says it was dissolved.

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

Stood
132 years
1817 – 1949
Symbol
1
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Maratha Empire: 1674 – 1818India: 1950 – 2026Tonk State: 1817 – 1949

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.

Before it

After it

  • India · replaced by · 1950 – present

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The state came to an end after the partition of India when the Nawab of Tonk acceded to India.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Flag of Tonk
    flag, undatedFlag of Tonk · Public domain

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 stood132 years

    stood longer than 52% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per centurynone

    had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

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.

Maratha Empire · Linked · 1674 – 1818Maratha EmpireTonk State · 1817 – 1949Tonk StateIndia · Linked · 1950 – 2026India1700180019002000
linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

  • Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling

    Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009

    Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.

    • the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 132

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q914031 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.