Category:Quasi-princely estates of India
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While there is no doubt that Salute states (nearly all the elite, to which the HEIC or British crown awarded a gun salute, and in most cases the style His Highness) and so-called Non-salute states qualify as true princely states, and little doubt that Political pensioners' former states do, and usually the so-called Vassal states are also counted,
it may never get settled which of the many other entities in various other categories, such as jagirs (fiefs), umraos (a vassal-like notion, the word derives from Amir), and various essentially tax collecting types sach as taluqas and zamindars, also qualify, depending on the criteria taken into account, resulting in greatly differing numbers of 'states' counted, while other entities may alternatively be considered estates or as states, so regardless which definition one sides with, one will always have to take into account that interesting sources and resources may very well treat a given entity as princely state or not.
Therefore you are well advised to look for (e)states lacking here in the category Category:Indian Princely States, and vice versa.
