Phulra
Princely state of British India
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::summary Princely state of British India ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox former subdivision"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| common_name | Phulra |
| conventional_long_name | Kingdom of Phulra |
| native_name | |
| subdivision | Princely state |
| nation | Pakistan |
| image_map | Phulra map.gif |
| image_map_caption | Map of Pakistan with Phulra highlighted |
| capital | Amb, Pakistan |
| stat_area1 | 98 |
| year_start | 1828 |
| year_end | 1950 |
| today | Pakistan |
| Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| footnotes | Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| government_type | Jagirdar |
| s1 | North-West Frontier Province |
| flag_s1 | Flag_of_Pakistan.svg |
| :: |
| common_name = Phulra | conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Phulra | native_name = | subdivision = Princely state | nation = Pakistan | image_flag = | image_map = Phulra map.gif | image_map_caption = Map of Pakistan with Phulra highlighted | capital = Amb, Pakistan | stat_year1 = | stat_area1 = 98 | year_start = 1828 | year_end = 1950 | today = Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | footnotes = Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa | demonym = | government_type = Jagirdar | era = | p1 = | s1 = North-West Frontier Province | event_end = | flag_p1 = | flag_s1 = Flag_of_Pakistan.svg ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Flag_of_Phulra(hd).jpg" caption="Flag of Phulra"] ::
Phulra or the State of Phulra () was a Muslim princely state in the days of British Raj and ruled by the Tanoli tribe, located in the region of the North West Frontier to the east of the nearby parent princely state of Amb (Tanawal).
The territory covered by the state is part of the present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as a Union Council of the tehsil of Mansehra.
History
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Phulra,_1833.jpg" caption="A fort in ''Phulra'', 1833"] ::
The state was founded in 1828, when Nawab Khan, the ruler of Amb, granted the area of Phulra as a small principality to his son, Maddad Khan Tanoli. There is some uncertainty as to whether Phulra ranked as a full princely state of India before 1919; it might until thenhave had the status of a feudatory landed estate, but it was given British imperial state recognition as Phulra was recognised as a princely state in 1828 and 1921, in the official Imperial Gazetteer of Indian Empire. Phulrah had been under suzerainty of the Raja of Kashmir until 1889, when it accepted a British protectorate, entering into a subsidiary alliance with British India.
In 1947, soon after the British had departed from the Indian subcontinent, the last ruler of Phulra signed an Instrument of Accession to the new Dominion of Pakistan, and Phulra was a princely state of Pakistan from then until September 1950, when it was incorporated into the North West Frontier Province following the death of its last ruler.
Dynasty
The state was ruled by a collateral line of the hereditary Tanoli Nawabs (rulers) of Amb. Amb and Phulra together were sometimes referred to as "Feudal Tanawal". Hubert Digby Watson, Gazetteer of the Hazara District, 1907, p. 187
::data[format=table] | Tenure||Nawabs of Phulra | |---| | 1810-1818 | | | | 1858-1890 | | 1890-1908 | | 1908-1932 | | 1932-1950 | | September 1950 | ::
Descendants of Maddad Khan
Maddad Khan, the original Khan of Phulra, had two branches of offspring. After the State of Phulra was abolished, both these branches continued to reside in the area. The descendants of its last Nawab, Abdul Latif Khan Tanoli, remained in the area as private residents.
Of the junior branch, Maddad Khan Tanoli had four sons from one wife: Ameer Khan Tanoli, Abdullah Khan Tanoli, Arsla Khan Tanoli and Hussain Khan Tanoli, whose son was Safiullah Khan Tanoli. From his second wife, Bahadur Khan Tanoli had one other surviving son. Their descendants are living today as private citizens in Gojra, Masand, Doga, Shergarh, Kangra, and in Rawalpindi.
References
References
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- ''The Pakistan Gazetteer'', vol. 5 (Cosmo Publications, 2000), p. 243
- Major H Wace 'District Settlement Report on Hazara' 1874
- Imperial ''Gazettze'' of India rule . ''[[British Raj. Principle States in British India.]]''
- This information is taken from their descendants that are still surviving.
- Governor-General's Orders GGO NO. 51 of 1921, given at Simla, vide section B of the Gazette of India
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