[1] The state was administered as part of the Bundelkhand Agency of Central India.

It lay in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near Gwalior, and was surrounded on all sides by other princely states of Central India, except on the east where it bordered upon the United Provinces.

The ruling family were Rajputs of the Bundela clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of Orchha.

Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1950.

The first issue is among the rarest of all Indian princely state stamps.