What has been referred to here as as Kolhapur jagirs, were actually substates. Rather than mere jagirs, the situation was more similar to Kashmir where there were substates like "Chenani" and "Poonch" or Hyderabad with "Gadwal" or "Amarchinta". They had complete control over their internal administration with law courts, tax collectors etc. Officially, in 1947, there were only nine jagirs, as two jagirs lapsed due to lack of heirs. They had their own internal salutes and position in the durbar. The nine substates are as follows:
© A. Chavan, January 2009 and J. D. McMeekin, August-December 2010.

RANK NAME OF ESTATE TITLE AREA km2 CASTE LINEAGE POP. (1921)
1 BAVDA Pant Amatya 630.6
 Deshasth Brahmin Bhadanekar 45,465
& DATTAWAD Amir ul Umrao 57.0 Maratha Ghorpade ~5,691
9 HIMMAT BAHADUR ESTATE Himmat Bahadur 127.2 Maratha Chavan ~12,700
3 ICHALKARANJI Ghorpade 625.4 Konkanasth Brahmin Joshi 59,641 (1911)
4 KAGAL SENIOR Sarjerao Vajarat Mab 290.6
 Maratha Ghatge 44,220
5 KAGAL JUNIOR Sarjerao Deshmukh 334.8 Maratha Ghatge 6,333
6 KAPSHI Senapati 215.5
 Maratha Ghorpade 11,560
# NESRI Chief n/aMaratha Shinde n/a
8 SARLASHKAR BAHADUR ESTATE Sar Lashkar Bahadur 26.1 Maratha Khardekar 5,859
7 TORGAL Sena Khas Khel 334.8 Maratha Shinde 1,516 (1881)
2 VISHALGADH / VISHALGARH Pant Pratinidhi 609.3
 Deshasth Brahmin Jaykar 30,807
# WALWA / VALVA Chief n/a
 Maratha Ghatge n/a


#. Both these petty states lapsed, Nesri Jagir lapsed to Torgal in the 1850's and Valva Jagir (founded 1786) lapsed to Kolhapur in 1864.
&. Dattawad, a branch of Kapshi, it was a saranjam or a zamindari. It had no jurisdictional power.
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