Category:Quasi-princely estates of India

Salute states (nearly all the most important, to which the East India Company or the British Crown awarded a gun salute, and in most cases to the ruler the style of "His Highness") as well as the Non-salute states qualify as true Princely states. Political pensioners' former states and Vassal states are also counted as Princely states. Various other categories, such as jagirs, umraos (a vassal-like notion - the word derives from "Amir"), and various essentially tax-collecting types such as taluqas and zamindars, can also qualify as large or substantial estates, depending upon the criteria for determining their status. This does result in greatly differing numbers of 'states' counted in the Indian subcontinent, not all of which can even be called substantial estates, but a ruling estate which could compete in terms of wealth, power and prestige with the fully acknowledged Indian Princely State is included in this category.