Eastern States Union | |||||||||||||
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Union of princely states of the Dominion of India | |||||||||||||
1947–1948 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Raipur | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
1947 | |||||||||||||
• Failure of the union | 1948 | ||||||||||||
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Today part of | Chhattisgarh Odisha Jharkhand |
The Eastern States Union was a short-lived (1947–48) union of princely states in newly independent India that gathered most of the princely states of the former Orissa Tributary States and Chhattisgarh States Agency in order to fill the vacuum of power created after the departure of the British and the wrapping up of the British Raj.[1]