British Political Pensioners

List of Political Pensioners in British India.

Muslim pensioners :

  • the imperial Mughal family, Paramount ruler of India as Padshah-i-Hind, in or near Delhi (pension discontinued after 1857)

  • the heirs of its failed Muslim fundamentalist challenger, Tipu Sultan's Mysore-based Khudadad empire

  • the Prince of Arcot (formerly Nawab Subedar of the Realm of the Carnatic - present day Tamilnadu)

  • the Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), formerly the Mughal emperor's hereditary Prime Minister

  • the Nawab of Kurnool

  • the Nawab of Masulipatam, head of a younger branch of the nawabs of Banganapalle

  • the Nawab of Murshidabad (in fact the dynasty of the former Nawab Nazim of greater Bengal; in West Bengal)

  • the Nawab of Surat

Seven Hindu thrones, at least three held by the Rajput Bhonsle family :

  • the Maharaja of Assam (not the whole present constitutive state)

  • the Maharaja of Nagpur

  • the Raja of Kolaba, Angria (Angre) dynasty

  • the Raja of Satara, had even earlier lost all real power to his chief minister, the Peshwa, who had become the hegemon of the Mahratta confederation

  • the Raja of Tanjore

  • the Raja of Coorg

  • the Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy (pension discontinued 1857)

Only one Sikh pensioner :