Baroda Residency

Baroda was an Indian princely state, ruled by the Gaekwad dynasty from its formation in 1721.

Following the Second Anglo-Maratha War of 1803–1805, the Gaekwads of Baroda made peace with the British, entering into a subsidiary alliance which acknowledged British suzerainty and control of the state's external affairs in return for retaining internal autonomy.

[citation needed] With wealth coming from the lucrative cotton trade as well as rice, wheat and sugar, it was one of the largest and richest of the hundreds of princely states existing alongside British India.

[3] The autonomy of the state ended in 1949 when it acceded to the newly formed Union of India.

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