PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
A
Maratha state founded in 1708, the rulers were...
- Raja Meherban Shrimant FATTEHSINGHRAO BHONSLE I
1708/1757
- Raja Meherban Shrimant SHAHJIRAO BHONSLE I 1757/1789
- Raja Meherban Shrimant FATTEHSINGHRAO BHONSLE II
1789/1822
- Raja Meherban Shrimant MALOJIRAO BHONSLE I 1822/1828
- Raja Meherban Shrimant SHAHJIRAO BHONSLE II 1828/1857
- Raja Meherban Shrimant MALOJIRAO BHONSLE II 1857/1870
- Raja Meherban Shrimant SHAHJIRAO MALOJIRAO [Baba Saheb
Raje] BHONSLE
III
1870/1896, born 1867 (#1) ,
married 1881 Rani Lakshmi Bai Saheb, daughter of Dhaibar Killedar of
Baroda, by his wife, a daughter of HH Maharaja Gaekwad Khanderao of
Baroda, and had
issue.
He died 1896.
- Shrimant Guzra Bai Raje, born about 1886.
- Shrimant Putala Bai Raje, born about 1889.
- Raja Meherban Shrimant FATTEHSINGHRAO BHONSLE III
1896/1923, born 1894,
married Rani Tara Bai [Lakshmi Bai (Akka Sahib)], born 1899, daughter
of
Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Sir Pirajirao Bapu Sahib Ghatge,
Chief
of Kagal, died 1942, and had issue. He died 4th April 1923.
- Raja Meherban Shrimant VIJAYASINGHRAO BHONSLE (qv)
- Raja Meherban Shrimant JAYASINGHRAO BHONSLE (qv)
- Rajkumari Vijayraje Sahib Bhonsle [Rajmata of
Kagal-Senior], born 1920,
married Meherban Shrimant Rajamanya Rajashri Jaisinghrao Pirajirao
Ghatge,
Chief of Kagal-Senior, and has issue.
- Raja Meherban Shrimant VIJAYASINGHRAO BHONSLE 1923/1952,
born 13th
December
1915 (#2) , married 1stly, Rani
Kamalaraje
Scindia of Gwalior, born 11th November 1914 and died 8 days after the
wedding,
married 2ndly, Rani Nirmalaraje of Baroda, daughter of Maharajkumar
Shivajirao
Gaekwad and granddaughter of HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sayajirao III,
Minister
for Education in Bombay State, died sp 1974?. He died sp
10th April 1952.
- Raja Meherban Shrimant JAYASINGHRAO BHONSLE 1952/1965,
married and had
issue, as well as secondary issue. He died 1965 without a male
heir.
- Rani Shrimant Sumitraraje Sahib Bhonsle (qv)
- Shrimant Sanyogitaraje Sahib Bhonsle, lives in Pune.
- Shrimant Janmairaje Bhonsle (by an informal liaison),
ineligible to
succeed
to the gadi.
- Rani Shrimant Sumitraraje Sahib Bhonsle (see above)
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