DATIA, an Indian state in the Bundelkhand agency. It lies in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near Gwalior, and is surrounded on all sides by other states of Central India, except on the east where it meets the United Provinces. The state came under the British government after the treaty of Bassein in 1802, and was settled with the present family by treaties in 1804 and 1818. Area, 911 sq.m.; pop. (1931) 158,834. The chief, whose title is maharaja, is a Rajput of the Bundela clan, being descended from a younger son of a former chief of Orchha; his salute is 15 guns. The town of Datia (pop. 18,292 in 1931) is surrounded by a stone wall, enclosing handsome palaces, with gardens ; the palace of Bir Singh Deo, of the 17th century, is "one of the finest ex amples of Hindu domestic architecture in India" and is now un tenanted.