Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : 1818
The correct answer is 1818. - Bhopal state become a British protectorate in 1818.
- The State of Bhopal was founded by an Afghan adventurer Dost Mohammad Khan in 1724.
- In 1817, when the third Anglo-Maratha War broke out, a treaty of dependence was signed between the British Government of India and the Nawab of Bhopal.
- A treaty named the Anglo-Bhopal treaty was signed in 1818 and a Political Agent of the British Government was appointed.
- An anglo-Bhopal treaty between the East India Company and Nawab Nazar Muhammad (Nawab of Bhopal) made Bhopal a princely state in British India.
- As a result of this treaty, Bhopal remained a friend of the British Government during the British Raj in India.
- On 30th April 1949, Nawab Hamidullah Khan signed an agreement with the Government of India.
- On 1st June 1949, the state was taken over by the Union Government as Chief Commissioner's Province.
- On the 1st of November 1956, a new state of Madhya Pradesh came into existence and Bhopal became its capital.
- The name Bhopal is popularly derived from 'Bhojpal' or Bhoj’s dam, the great dam which now holds up the Bhopal city lakes.
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