PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
In 1728,
the Maratha Peshwa of Poona (today Pune) granted what is now the Indore
State to Malhar Rao Holkar, a cavalry commander in his service. Rulers
were..
- Maharaja Holkar MALHAR RAO I HOLKAR 1731/1766, born 1694,
married
and had issue. He died 19th May 1766.
- Maharajkumar Khandi Rao Holkar, born 1724, married
Maharani Ahalya Bai
and had issue. He died vp 1754.
- Maharaja Holkar MALE RAO HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharaja Holkar MALE RAO HOLKAR 1766/1767, born 1745, died sp
5th April 1767.
Maharani Ahalya Bai 1767/1795, born 1725,
died 13th August 1795. (regent)
- Maharaja Holkar TUKOJI RAO I HOLKAR
1795/1797, born
1723, married
and issue. He died 15th August 1797.
- Maharaja Holkar YASHWANT RAO I HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharaja Holkar KASHI RAO HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharaja Holkar MALHAR RAO II HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharajkumar Vithoji Rao Holkar, married and had issue.
He died 1801.
- Maharaja Holkar HARI RAO HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharajkumar Wittaji Rao Holkar, died 1806.
- Maharaja Holkar MALHAR RAO II HOLKAR 1797/1798, born
1770, married
and had issue. He died 1798.
- Maharajkumar Khande Rao Holkar, born 1797, died 1808.
- Maharaja Holkar KASHI RAO HOLKAR 1798/1806, died sp
1806.
- Maharaja Holkar YASHWANT RAO I HOLKAR 1806/1811,
married and had
issue. He died 20th October 1811.
- Maharaja Holkar MALHAR RAO III HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharaja Holkar MARTAND RAO HOLKAR (qv)
Maharani Tulsi Bai 1811/1815 (regent)
- Maharaja Holkar MALHAR RAO III HOLKAR
1811/1833, born
1801, died sp
27th October 1833.
- Maharaja Holkar MARTAND RAO HOLKAR 1833/1834, died sp
2nd
February 1834
- Maharaja Holkar HARI RAO HOLKAR 1834/1843, born 1795,
married and had issue. He died 24th October
1843.
- Maharaja Holkar KHANDE RAO II HOLKAR (qv)
- Maharaja Holkar KHANDE RAO II HOLKAR 1843/1844,
died sp
17th February 1844.
- Maharaja Holkar TUKOJI RAO II HOLKAR 1844/1886, born
1832, married and had issue. He died 17th
June 1886.
- HH Maharajadhiraj Holkar Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri
SHIVAJI RAO HOLKAR (qv)
- HH Maharajadhiraj Holkar Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri
SHIVAJI RAO HOLKAR
1886/1903 (abdicated), born 1859, married and had issue. He died 1908.
- HH
Maharajadhiraj Holkar Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir TUKOJI RAO III
HOLKAR (qv)
-
 HH
Maharajadhiraj Holkar Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Sir TUKOJI RAO III
HOLKAR
1903/1926 (abdicated), born 26th November 1890, G.C.I.E.
[cr.1918],
the ruler enjoys a 21 local gun salute, married 1stly, HH Maharani
Shrimant
Akhand Soubhagyavati Chandrawati Bai (Senior Maharani), married 2ndly
June
1913, HH Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Indira Bai (Junior
Maharani),
married 3rdly, 12th March 1928 at Barwaha, Her
Highness Maharani Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Sharmishtha Devi Bai
Sahiba
(née Nancy Anna Miller), born 9th September 1907 in Seattle,
died
1995, and had issue, 1 son and 5 daughters. He died 21st May 1978 in
Paris,
France.
- Field Marshal (Hon.) HH Maharajadhiraj Holkar Raj
Rajeshwar Sawai
Shrimant
YESHWANT RAO II HOLKAR Bahadur (by Chandrawati Bai)(qv)
- Maharajkumari Manorama Raje (by Chandrawati Bai), died of
tuberculosis
at the age of twenty.
- Maharajkumari Sharada Raje (by Sharmistha Bai)
- Maharajkumari Sita Raje (by Sharmistha Bai), married
Shrimant Sardar Fatehsinhrao Dattajirao Ghatge of Kagal-Jnr, and
has issue.
 Field Marshal (Hon.) HH Maharajadhiraj Holkar
Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shrimant YESHWANT RAO II HOLKAR Bahadur 1926/1961,
G.C.I.E., LL.D., born 6th September 1908, educated at Cheam Public
School,
Surrey and Charter House; Christchurch College, Oxford; married 1stly
1924,
HH Maharani Sanyogitabai Raje Ghatge, born 1913, died 13th July 1937 in
Paris, daughter of Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Dattajirao
Narayanrao
[Kaka Sahib]
Ghatge Sarjerao, Chief of Kagal-Jnr, b his third wife, married 2ndly,
19th
September
1938 (div.1942) in Mexico City, Marguerite Lawler (married 1stly (div.
1938), John Branyen, married 3rdly 1945, Charles W. Masters), born 1909
in Fargo, ND, she died 1963 in Corona del Mar, CA, married 3rdly, 6th
July
1943 (div. 1960), Euphemia Fay Watt (born 1st July 1914, died
6th
September 1994), and had issue. He died 5th December 1961 at Bombay.
- HH Maharanidhiraja Rani Rajeshwar Sawai Shrimant Akhand
Soubhagyavati
Usha
Devi Holkar, (by 1st wife) (qv)
- Shrimant
Maharajkumar Richard Shivajirao Yeshwantrao Holkar, (by 3rd wife), born
18th May 1944, Chairman of Rehwa Society (founded 1977), a fine gourmet
and cook, he has co-authored a book on "The Cooking of the Maharajas"
with
Sally (he now pens a column "Maheshwar Musings" for a Delhi-based
magazine),
his favourite pastime is fishing, married 1stly, 8th November 1966 in
Dallas
(div. 2002), Shrimant Akhaund Soubbagyavati Shalinidevi Holkar
[née
Sally Sue Budd], born 1945, married 2ndly, Pamela Rooks, and has issue.
- Shrimant Yeshwantrao Holkar, born 1983, educated in the
USA.
- Shrimant Akhand Soubbagyavati Sabrinaraje Sanyogita
Holkar, born
1980, educated
in the USA, married 3rd March 2006, Ari Kanakdari Ellis.
- HH Maharanidhiraja Rani Rajeshwar Sawai Shrimant
Akhand Soubbagyavati
Usha Devi Holkar (see above)
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