Rao (title)

Rao is one of the cognate Hindi variations of the (originally Hindu) title Raja(h) (like Rai, Rawal and Rawat), used as equivalent royal style in certain princely states, notably of former British India.

This title is also used for Yadavs of Haryana in Northern India.[1]

Princely States

It occurred in some princely states such as :

The variation Raol was used in

The compound Rao Raja was used in

The formally higher title Rao Bahadur was used in :

The nominally higher title Maharao -equivalent to Maharaja(h)- was used in :

  • Bundi State, in Rajasthan, Hereditary salutes of 17-guns (19-guns local); style in full Maharao Raja (from 1821, previously Rao Raja)
  • Cutch State (Cutch/Kachh), Hereditary salute of 17-guns (19-guns local)
  • Kota(h), Hereditary salute of 17-guns (19-guns personal)

References

  1. Lucia Michelutti (2002). "Sons of Krishna: the politics of Yadav community formation in a North Indian town" (PDF). PhD Thesis Social Anthropology. London School of Economics and Political Science University of London. pp. 94, 95.
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