The Kingdom of Nagpur was a kingdom in east-central India founded by the Gond rulers of Deogarh in the early 18th century. It came under the rule of Marathas of the Bhonsale dynasty in the mid-18th century. The city of Nagpur was the capital of the state. The kingdom clashed with British already in the early 19th century. It became a princely state of the British Empire in 1818, and was annexed to British India in 1853 becoming Nagpur Province.