Who Built This Comparator

What RoyalStakes is

RoyalStakes is an independent legal-history reference focused on how Indian states have regulated gambling since the Public Gambling Act, 1867. It is built and maintained as a comparative research tool: the Law Comparator, the state notes, and the historical and glossary pages are all intended to help readers understand structure and divergence across jurisdictions, not to direct readers toward any particular activity, operator or outcome.

What RoyalStakes is not

RoyalStakes is an independent legal-history reference. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by any government body, casino or gaming authority mentioned on this site. This site does not provide legal advice.

RoyalStakes does not operate, host, broker or promote any gambling activity, in India or elsewhere. It does not accept registrations, does not process payments, and does not link to operator sign-up pages. Any resemblance between the brand name "RoyalStakes" and gambling terminology is coincidental to the brand's naming and is not used elsewhere on this site as an invitation to participate in any activity.

Sourcing standards

Content is drawn from publicly available statutory text, government notifications, and secondary legal commentary, cross-checked where possible. Because gazette text and notifications change over time, every specific factual claim on this site is marked, in context, with an instruction to verify it against the current gazette text before publishing or relying on it. See the methodology page for a full explanation of how the comparator's six criteria and six-state scope were chosen.

Commercial disclosure

RoyalStakes may, in limited cases, include links to independent travel-related services (such as general travel-planning resources) using affiliate arrangements marked with rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". RoyalStakes does not carry affiliate links to gambling operators, payment processors, or registration/sign-up flows of any kind, and does not intend to. Where an affiliate travel link appears anywhere on this site, it will be disclosed in context in addition to this page.

Corrections

Because this is a static reference rather than a live database, corrections are incorporated on a periodic review basis rather than in real time. Readers who believe a specific detail is materially incorrect or outdated are encouraged to independently verify the current gazette text in the meantime, consistent with the verification guidance repeated throughout this site.