PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1721. Rulers were....
- Maharaja Gaekwad PILAJI RAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
1721/1732 , married (amongst others) Maharani Baiji Bai of
Chhota-Udaipur,
and had issue. He died 14th May 1732.
- Maharaja Gaekwad DAMAJIRAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Shrimant Sambhaji Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Khande Rao Gaekwad,
recieved
the Jagir of
Kadi, and had issue.
- Shrimant Jayasinhrao Gaekwad (by
Baiji Bai), married
the daughter of the Deshmukh of Otur and Junnar in Poona.
- Shrimant Anandrao Gaekwad (by
Baiji
Bai)
- Shrimant Jingoji Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Pratap Rao Gaekwad,
married
and had issue.
- Shrimant Kaloji Rao Gaekwad,
married and had issue.
- Shrimant Gabaji Rao Gaekwad,
married and had issue.
- Shrimant Bhikaji Rao
Gaekwad,
married and had issue.
- Shrimant Gabajirao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Baburao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Kashi Rao
Gaekwad,
married and had issue.
- Himmat Bahadur Shrimant
Anand Rao Kashi Rao
Gaekwad, born 1858, married and had issue. He died 21st
June 1917 (#2 p.151).
- Shrimant Lalsinh Rao Anand Rao Gaekwad, born
1892, educated at Oxon Christ Church (M.A.), was the GM Gaekwar Baroda
State Railways and the Suba of Navasari (1937) and Mehasana (1934). He
was also the Private Secretary to Maharani Chimnabai II and toured the
Globe 7 times, married and had issue. He died 1968.
- Shrimant Vikramsinh Rao Lalsinh Rao
Gaekwad, born 1924, died unmarried 1992.
- Shrimant Bhadrasinhrao alias Shanker Rao
Anand Rao Gaekwad, born 1896, an illustrious Civil Servant of Baroda
State, educated at Christ College Cambridge, he did his BAR in 1922,
and started as a Probationer in Revenue Department under Maharaja
Sayajirao III. Rose very fast in the Gaekwad Royal Bureaucracy
and became Suba, Sar Suba and then Karma Sachiv. He was awarded the
highest Merit in Civil Service of Baroda State, "Rajya Karya Dhurandhar" in 1942,
awarded the C.I.E. in 1944, Dewan of Baroda 1945/1946, married and had
issue, two sons. He died 20th May 1946.
- Shrimant Veersinhrao Gaekwad, educated at
Christ Church College in Oxford (M.A.), died unmarried in 1991.
- Shrimant Gautamsinhrao Gaekwad, born
1936,
educated in M.S. University (M.Sc. Botany), was a Professor in Faculty
of Science, Botany Dept., till 1996. Remained Curator of Maharja
Sayajirao Zoo for 25 yrs, has issue, one adopted son.
- (A) Shrimant Jeetendra Sinh Gaekwad,
B.E.,
MBA, Vice Chairman of Government of India's Janshikshan Sansthan and
Vice President of HRH Group of Regal Hotels owned by Maharana of Mewar,
Udaipur. He is also a Tourism Writer.
- Shrimant Chandrasinh Rao Anand Rao Gaekwad,
married and had issue.
- Major Shrimant Duleepsinh Gaekwad, married
and had issue.
- Shrimant Satyajitsinh Duleepsinh
Gaekwad, born 3rd March
1962 in Vadodara, Gujarat; educated at M.S. University, Baroda
(M.Com.),
Organisational Secretary of the Youth Congress, Gujarat 1992/96;
Councillor
of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation and Chief Whip, Congress Party,
Vadodara
Municipal Corporation 1995/96; Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) 1996;
President
of the Indian Youth Congress, President of the Setu Seva Bharti Trust
(Educational
Trust), Vice-President of the Rickshaw Chalak (I.N.T.U.C.) Congress
Union
1992/96, President of the Gujarat Kabaddi Association; married 2nd May
1991, Ojaswitharaje S. Gaekwad (née Bhonsle), daughter of
Shrimant
Abhaysinhraje Shahumaharaj Bhonsle of Satara,
and his wife, Arunaraje A. Bhonsle, and has issue, two daughters,
and one son.
- Yudeepsinh Satyajitsinh Gaekwad
- Shrimant Gopal Rao
Kashi
Rao Gaekwad, succeeded to the gaddi
as HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sir SAYAJIRAO III GAEKWAD Sena Khas Khel
Shamsher
Bahadur (see below)
- Shrimant Sampatrao
Kashi
Rao Gaekwad, born 1865, married a daughter of
Bajirao
Amritrao Ghatge of Dewas.
- Shrimant Okhajirao
Bhikaji
Rao Gaekwad, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Dadasaheb
Okhaji
Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Sakharamrao
Bhikaji
Rao Gaekwad
- Maharaja Gaekwad DAMAJIRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1732/1768,
married (amongst others), (a) a Gohil lady of Lathi, married (b) 1762,
Maharani Dhan Kunwar Bai of Kutch,
married
(c) 1765, Maharani Chandra Kunwar Bai, daughter of the Raja of
Rajpipla,
and had issue. He died 18th August 1768.
- Maharaja Gaekwad SAYAJI RAO I
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad FATEHSINGH RAO I
GAEKWAD Shamsher
Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad MANAJI RAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad GOVIND RAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Shrimant Jaysingh Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Morari Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Ram Rao Gaekwad
- Maharaja Gaekwad SAYAJIRAO I
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1768/1771,
married (amongst others), (a) Maharani Gulab Kunwar Bai, daughter of
Thakur
Lalsinhji of Pilaj in Kadi, died sp 1778.
- Maharaja Gaekwad FATEHSINGHRAO I
GAEKWAD Shamsher
Bahadur 1771/1789, married (amongst
others),
(a) Maharani Gulab Kunwar Bai of Mandavi, married (b) Maharani Lal
Kunwar
Bai, married (c) Maharani Jasoda Kunwar Bai of Ghodasar, married (d)
daughter
of the Thakur of Lakhtar. He died sp 21st December 1789.
- Maharaja Gaekwad MANAJIRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1789/1793,
died sp 1st August 1793.
- Maharaja Gaekwad GOVINDRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1793/1800,
married (amongst others), (a) Maharani Rani Bai, daughter of the Raja
of
Rajpipla, married (b) Maharani Gena Bai, daughter of Thakur
Sahib
PRATHIRAJJI CHANDRASINHJI of Lakhtar,
and
had issue. He died 19th September 1800.
- Maharaja Gaekwad ANANDRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad SAYAJIRAO II
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Shrimant Bhagwant Rao Gaekwad
- Shrimant Fatehsingh Rao Gaekwad,
Regent 1806/1818,
had adoptive issue.
- Shrimant Govindrao Gaekwad,
descendant of Shrimant
Jingoji Rao Gaekwad, married and had issue.
- Shrimant Sadashivrao
Gaekwad,
exiled to Benares
where he died c1890.
- Shrimant Murarrao Gaekwad,
overlooked for the
succession in 1875, and committed suicide soon after.
- Shrimant Kanhoji Rao Gaekwad (by
Rani
Bai), eldest
son, overlooked in the succession, married the daughter of the Patil of
Rajapur in the Deccan.
- Shrimant Mukund Rao Gaekwad (by
Gena
Bai)
- Maharaja Gaekwad ANANDRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
1800/1819, married 1stly Maharani Takhat
Bai
of Miyagam, married 2ndly, Maharani Umaid Bai, married 3rdly, Maharani
Darya Bai, and had issue. He died 2nd September 1819.
- Maharajkumar Balwant Rao Gaekwad
(by
1st wife)
- Maharajkumar Pilaji Rao Gaekwad
(by
1st wife)
- Maharajkumar Gopal Rao Gaekwad
(by
2nd wife)
- Maharajkumar Lachman Rao Gaekwad
(by
3rd wife)
- Maharaja Gaekwad SAYAJIRAO II
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1819/1847,
married and had issue. He died 19th December 1847.
- Maharaja Gaekwad GANPATRAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad KHANDERAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
- Maharaja Gaekwad MALHARRAO
GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur
(qv)
-
 Maharaja Gaekwad GANPATRAO GAEKWAD
Shamsher Bahadur 1847/1856,
died 19th November 1856 sp.
- Maharaja Gaekwad KHANDERAO
GAEKWAD Shamsher Bahadur 1856/1870,
born 1828, married about 1866, HH Maharani Jamna Bai Sahiba, born about
1853,
died
29th November 1898 (#2 p.99).
He died spm 28th November 1870.
- Rani Tara Bai Sahib, born 5th
July
1871, married
21st December 1879, Raja Sahib RAGHUNATH SAVANT BHONSLE Raje Bahadur of
Savantvadi.
She died June 1897 (#2
 p.41).
- Maharaja Gaekwad MALHARRAO GAEKWAD
Samsher Bahadur 1870/1875,
married 1stly, HH Maharani Mahalsa Bai Sahiba, married 2ndly, HH
Maharani
Lakshmi Bai Sahiba, and had issue. He died 1882.
- Maharajkumar Jayasinghrao Gaekwad
(by
Lakshmi Bai),
born 16th December 1874, not recognized as legitimate by the
authorities (#2).
-
 HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sir SAYAJIRAO
III
KHANDERAO GAEKWAD
Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia 1875/1939,
born 17th March 1863 in Kavlana (#2) as
Shrimant Gopal Rao Gaekwad, G.C.S.I. [cr.1887], G.C.I.E. [cr.1919],
LL.D.
Benares Hindu University, installed on the gaddi on 27th may
1875,
granted the title of Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia
on 29th December 1876, investiture held 28th December 1881, educated
at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and later in England, married 1stly, 6th
January
1881, Maharani Lakshmi Bai (Chimna Bai I), born about September 1864,
from
the Mohite family, died 7th May 1885, married 2ndly, 28th December
1885,
Maharani Gajra Bai (Chimna Bai II), born 1871, C.I., daughter of
Bajirao
Amritrao Ghatge of Dewas, died 1958, and had issue. He died 6th
February
1939 and was cremated the next day at Baroda.
- Maharaj Kumari Baju Bai, born
December 1881, died
young.
- Maharaj Kumari Putla Bai, born
1882,
died 1885.
- Yuvaraj Fatehsinghrao Gaekwad,
born
3rd August 1883,
married 1904 Yuvarani Padmavati Bai Saheba, died 1919 and had issue. He
died vp September 1908 (#2).
- HH Shrimati Indumati Devi
Tarabai
Sahib, born 1904,
married April 1918 (#2),
HH Maharajah Sir Shri RAJARAM IV Chhatrapati of Kolhapur.
She died 1954.
- HH Rani Lakshmi Devi, born
1907,
married 1922 HH
Raja Bahadur KHEM V SAVANT BHONSLE of Savantvadi
and had issue. She died 1961.
- HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sir
PRATAPSINGHRAO GAEKWAD Sena
Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj Kumar Jaisinghrao
Gaekwad,
born 1888, educated
at Harrow School 1902/1906, died 27th August
1923 (#2 p.163).
- HH Maharani Indira Devi, born
1892,
married July
1913 HH Maharaja JITENDRA NARAYAN Bhup Bahadur of Cooch
Behar and had issue. She died 1968.
- Maharaj Kumar Shivajirao Gaekwad,
born 31st August
1890 at Baroda, married Rani Kamala Devi, and had issue. He died 24th
November
1919 (#1 #2 p.156).
- Rajkumar Udaysinhrao Shivajirao Gaekwad, born 11th June
1918 in Baroda, died 11th August 1960 in Baroda.
- Rani Nirmalaraje Sahib Gaekwad,
married Raja Meherban
Shrimant VIJAYASINGHRAO BHONSLE of Akalkot.
- Maharaj Kumar Dhairyashilrao
Gaekwad,
born 1893,
married Rani Vimla Raje. He died April 1940.
-
 HH
Maharaja Gaekwad Sir PRATAPSINGHRAO GAEKWAD Sena Khas Khel Shamsher
Bahadur
Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia 1939/1968,
born 29th June 1908, educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot and
subsequently
in England, married 1stly, January 1929, HH Maharani Shanta Devi Saheb,
born 1914, daughter of Sardar Hasurkar Mansinhrao Subbarao of Hasur in
Kolhapur, died 22nd May 2002, cremated at Kirti Mandir, 24th May 2002,
married 2ndly, 1943 (divorced 1956), HH Maharani Sita Devi Sahib, born
1917, died 1986 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, daughter of Sri Raja Rao
VENKATA KUMARA MAHIPATI SURYARAO Bahadur Garu of Pithapuram, and his wife, Rani
Chinnamamba Devi, and had
issue.
He died 19th July 1968.
- Lt.-Col. HH Maharaja Gaekwad
FATEHSINGHRAO II GAEKWAD
Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur (qv)
- HH Maharaja Gaekwad
RANJITSINGHRAO
GAEKWAD Sena Khas
Khel Shamsher Bahadur (qv)
- Maharaj Kumar Sangramsingh
Gaekwad,
born 6th August
1941 at Baroda (#1), Managing Director of
Baroda
Rayon Corporation, married Rani Asharaje Gaekwad (née Asha Rana)
and has issue.
- Shrimant Pratapsingh Gaekwad, born 1971, married 14th
May 2006 in Kathmandu, Pragyashree Thapa, born 1981, Lieutenant
(R.N.A.), daughter of Gen. Pyar Jung Thapa, former Commander in Chief
of the
Royal Nepal Army.
- HH Maharani Priyadarshini Raje
Gaekwad, married December
1994, HH Maharaja Scindia Sri JYOTIRADITYA SCINDIA of Gwalior
and has issue.
- Maharaj Kumar Sayajirao Gaekwad,
born
1945, died
unmarried 8th May 1985 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
- HH Maharani Dr. Mrunalini Devi,
holds
a Basic
Degree in Home Science (B.Sc. Home), M.S. (Food & Nutrition) from
Iowa
State University Of Science & Technology, Applied Nutrition
Certificate
(Postgraduate) from National Institute Of Nutrition, Hyderabad,
Registered
Dietician Certificate from Indian Dietetic Association, Ph.D. (Food
&
Nutrition) from Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda. She has
published
several research and popular articles in national and International
Journals
of repute. As a Senior Research Fellow of the Indian Council of Medical
Research, New Delhi. She has conducted several community and
experimental
(laboratory) research projects and surveys in nutrition, dietetics,
education,
food habits, family welfare, culture, etc. some of which were sponsored
by the International Federation for Home Economics, the Nutrition
Foundation
of India, University Grants Commission, Indian Council of Medical
Research
and other national/governmental agencies, NGOs and industries. Member
of
the Commission on Education and Training, the International Union for
Conservation
of Nature & Natural Resources (IUCNNR), Switzerland. Chairperson,
Food
& Nutrition Programme Committee, International Federation For Home
Economics (IFHM), France. Member of the Steering group on Nutrition,
Planning
Commission, Government of India, Member of the Governing Body,
Institute
Of Home Economics, New Delhi. Member of the Advisory Committee for
Rajiv
Gandhi Institute For Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New
Delhi. Member of the Food And Nutrition Council, Government of India.
Member
of the Governing Body, Nutrition Foundation Of India, New Delhi. Member
of the Faculty Board of Home Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao
University
Of Baroda. Member of the Programme Committee on Women & Families in
Development, IFHE, Paris, France. Trustee, Gopalan Oration Trust,
Hyderabad.
She is also currently serving as an Expert on the Board Of Studies
(Foods
& Nutrition and Home Science) of The Maharaja Sayajirao University
Of Baroda, and on the Selection Committees for appointement of
University
Teachers and Ph.D. supervisors at Nagpur and Amravati Universities.
Dietetic
Counsellor to Shree Maharani Shantadevi Trust, Vadodara and the
Diabetes
Association Of Baroda. Awarded the Shrimannt Itchagauri Naik Gold Medal
- First class, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Merit
Scholarships,
the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (Gujarat Branch) Merit
Certificate,
the Mary Hunter Scholar Of the P.E.O Sisterhood, U.S.A., the P.E.O.
International
Peace Scholarship for postgraduate studies at Iowa State University Of
Science & Technology, U.S.A., the Senior Research Fellowship,
Indian
Council Of Medical Research, New Delhi, the Outstanding Woman Achiever
Award of the All Indian Management Association, Food And Nutrition
Department,
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda 'Alumni Achievement Award',
Chancellor
of Sayaji University of Baroda, married 1951, HH Maharaja ANANDRAO IV
PUAR
of Dhar.
- Rani Pramila Raje Sahib, married Darbar Shri SHIVRAJ ALA
KHACHAR, Chief
of Jasdan, and has issue.
- HH Rani Satwashiladevi, born about 1935, married, HH Raja
Bahadur SHIVRAM
SAWANT
BHONSLE of Savantvadi.
- Rani Vasundhara Raje Sahib,
married
Raja Shrimant
MURARIRAO YESHWANTRAO GHORPADE, Mamlukatmadar Senapati Raja of Sandur,
and has issue.
- Lt.-Col. HH Maharaja Gaekwad
FATEHSINGHRAO II GAEKWAD
Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia 1968/1988,
born 2nd April 1930, educated privately under English tutor, passed
Senior
Cambridge Examination 1947, elected to Lok Sabha 1957, 1962, 1971 and
1977,
Parliamentary Secretary to Defence Minister 1957/62, Member of Public
Accounts
Committee 1963/64, MP (Congress), Gujarat 1967/71, Minister for Health,
Gujarat Government 1967/71, Chancellor of Maharaja Sayajirao University
of Baroda 1951/- , Chairman of the Baroda rayon Corporation, Manager of
the Indian Cricket Team 1959, 1978 and 1982/83, President of the Board
of Control for Cricket in India 1963/66, Member of CCI, Bomaby and MCC,
London; FZS, London; International Trustee of World Wildlife Fund for 6
years; President of INSONA; Member of IUCN and Fauna Preservation
Society
and RSPB; Author of "Palaces of India", 1982; interests include
photography,
cooking, reading and poetry, married 1950, HH Maharani Padmavati Devi
of Jodhpur,
born 14th December 1930, she died sp 1984. He died sp
1st
September
1988.
- HH Maharaja Gaekwad RANJITSINGHRAO
GAEKWAD Sena Khas
Khel Shamsher Bahadur Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Shrimant Pilajirao Vithalrao Gaekwad, son of Shrimant
Vithalrao B.
Gaekwad,
Mandvie, Baroda, educated at Harrow School 1901/1905
- Damajirao Vithalrao Gaekwad, born
10th
December 1894,
B.A. (Hons. Oxon.), Comptroller of the Household to HH the Mahraja of
Baroda
1939/-, educated at Baroda, Manchester Grammar School and Exeter
College,
Oxford; Naib Sarsuba 1928, married 1920 Sushila Bai, daughter of Sardar
Ramchandra Rao Bhajji Ghatge of Akalkot.
- Krishnarao Mahipatrao Gaekwad,
married
and had issue.
- Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaekwad, born
15th
October 1902,
married 1stly Sitabai, 2ndly Gitabai, and had issue. He died 13th March
1972.
- Devyani Devi (sister of HH Maharani
Shanta Devi Saheb),
married 1937, Chandrasenrao Gaekwad, and had issue. She died 29th June
2002 aged 82, cremated 30th June at Kirti Mandir.
- Ajitsingh Gaekwad
- Nirmala Devi (Ajitsinh Sindhe)
- Suniti Devi (Nimbalkar)
- Mohini Devi (Bobde)
- Lt Col Prince Ashok Raje Gaekwad,
grandson of HH
Maharaja Gaekwad Sir SAYAJIRAO III KHANDERAO GAEKWAD, married Devyani
Raje.
- Sangramsinh Gaekwad, born 31st August 1970.
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