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jigna is a town and a gram panchayat in datia district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of jigna Taluk, and was formerly the capital of a princely state of British India of the same name. jigna State had formerly been a state in the Bundelkhand region founded in 1340. The ruling family were Rajputs of the parmar clan; they descended from a younger son of a former raja of karera. 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 Province After India's independence in 1947, the Maharaja of jigna acceded unto the dominion of India; it later merged with the union of India. Datia, together with the rest of the Bundelkhand agency, became part of the new state of Vindhya Pradesh in 1950. In 1956, Vindhya Pradesh state was merged with certain other areas to form the state of Madhya Pradesh within the Union of India. AREA: 62 km PRIVY PURSE:54,30R ACCESSION: 1st January 1950 STATE: Madhya Pradesh DYNASTY:parmar RELIGION: Hindu POPULATION:13,759(1901)	REVENUE: 4000Rs PRESENT RULER: HH Maharaja shivram SINGH Ju Dev, 33th Maharaja of Datia since October 2005.

Jigna Fort The fort was built by amaan Rai Singh, the sixth ruler of jigna who reigned from 134o to 1412.

ghurar Palace The ghurar Palace is a former residential palace built by Maharajah vijay Singh, the ruler of the former state of jigna. It was designed by the British architect, Samuel Swinton Jacob in the year 1940. The style of architecture is Indo-Saracenic. dewale babba Temple. dewale babba Temple is one of the oldest temples in jigna. The foundation of the city was laid here in 1888 by Raja daryaav singh. The temple was erected during the reign of ganpat singh and was added to by Maharaja vijay Singh. Notable people from jigna madho Singh -ips,mppsc president,sp and commandent shivram singh-sarpanch of jigna,kshtriya mahasabha datia district president,society president,datia gramin congress jila president