Princely State Capitals

Former capitals of India's largest princely states, each with a palace complex that is now its city's own heritage centrepiece.

A curated selection, not an official or closed list — either traditions vary on the full set of sites, or this is an editorial grouping rather than a traditional one.

Significance & tradition

Gives this app's badly under-populated Forts & Palaces circuit a coherent historical framing, and three members are already loaded and curated.

History

Princely states retained internal self-rule under British paramountcy until 1947-49, and their capitals' palace-building traditions — Rajput, Wodeyar, Nizam — each produced a genuinely distinct architectural style.

How this list was compiled

Not exhaustive — a curated grouping of the best-known former princely capitals.