A salute state was a princely state under the British Raj that had been granted a gun salute by the British Crown (as paramount ruler); i.e., the protocolary privilege for its ruler to be greeted—originally by Royal Navy ships, later also on land—with a number of cannon shots, in graduations of two salutes from three ...
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Salute states were princely states, mostly in British India,. whose rulers were marked out as high-ranking by the award of a gun salute,.
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The princely states varied greatly in status, size, and wealth; the premier 21-gun salute states of Hyderabad and Jammu and Kashmir were each over 200,000 km2 ( ...
A salute is usually a formal hand gesture or other action used to display respect in military situations. ... Salutes are primarily associated with the military ...
Template:Salute states · Bhopal · Indore · Kalat · Kolhapur · Travancore · Udaipur.
This is a list of Indian princely states, as they existed during the British Raj before 1947. Before the Partition of India in 1947, hundreds of Princely ...
For details of precedence between the states, see Salute state. In principle ... The most important states were ranked as salute states, whose rulers were ...
A salute state was a princely state under the British Raj that had been granted a gun salute by the British Crown ; i.e., the protocolary privilege for its ...
(historical) Under the British Raj, a princely state whose ruler was granted a gun salute as a sign of status.