page_title: Patiala State
section_title: Brief history
hierarchical_section_title: Patiala State / Brief history
caption_attribution_description: English: Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala, Punjab, India
context_page_description: Patiala State was a self-governing princely state of the British Empire in India, and one of the Phulkian States, that acceded to the Union of India upon Indian independence and partition.
context_section_description: The office of Maharaja became hereditary among the descendants of Ala Singh until Phul, the Sikh ancestor of the dynasty, which came to rule over Patiala, Jind, and Nabha.
caption: Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala.
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