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KEONTHAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 749 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KEONTHAL  , a

petty hill state in the
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Punjab, India, with an
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area of 116 sq. m.; pop . (19c1), 22,499; estimated revenue, £4400 . The chief, a
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Rajput, received the title of
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raja in 1857 . After the Gurkha War in 1815, a portion of Keonthal, which had been occupied by the Gurkhas, was sold to the maharaja of Patiala, the remainder being restored to its hereditary chief . In 1823 the
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district of Punar was added to the Keonthal state . The raja exercises rights of lordship over the petty states of Kothi, Theog, Madhan and Ratesh .

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