Macheri

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Macheri

Village in the Rajgarh tahsiI of the State of Alwar, Rajputana, situated in 27° 15' N. and 76^40' E., about 3 miles north- east of Rajgarh town, and 23 miles south of Alwar city. Population (1901), 2,620. The estate of Macheri was granted about 1671 by Mirza Raja Jai Singh of Jaipur to Rao Kalyan Singh, an ancestor of the present ruling family of Alwar ; and about ninety years later, in the time of Rao Pratap Singh, the founder of the Alwar State, it consisted of but 2\ villages : namely, Macheri, Rajgarh, and half Rajpura. Before he died in 1791, Pratap Singh had developed this little estate into a principality comprising almost all the territory now called Alwar.