DEWAS Snr (Princely State)

(15 gun salute)

 
AREA: 1,163 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 145,000R  ACCESSION: 15th June 1948
STATE: Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY: Puar RELIGION:Hindu 
POPULATION: 73,940 (1892)    
     
PRESENT RULER: HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR , 9th Maharaja of Dewas-Snr (1999/-) (Anand Bhawan Palace, Dewas, India)
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1728. Rulers were.... 
  1. Raja TUKOJIRAO I PUAR 1728/1753 died 1753

  2. Raja KRISHNAJIRAO I PUAR 1753/1789

  3. Raja TUKOJIRAO II PUAR 1789/1824

  4. Raja RUKMANGADRAO PUAR 1824/1860

  5. HH Raja KRISHNAJIRAO II [BABA SAHEB] PUAR 1860/1899, born November 1849, succeeded 18th March 1861 (#1), married and had issue.
    • HH Maharaja Sir TUKOJIRAO III PUAR (qv)

  6. HH Maharaja Sir TUKOJIRAO III PUAR 1899/1937, born 1st January 1888, Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], educated at Daly College, Indore and at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 1908, HH Maharani Radhabai Akka Sahib of Kolhapur, and had issue. He died 21st December 1937.
    • HH Maharaja VIKRAMSINHARAP PUAR [NANA SAHEB] Maharaj (qv)

  7. HH Maharaja VIKRAMSINHARAO PUAR [NANA SAHEB] Maharaj 1937/1948, born 4th April 1910, Maharaja of Kolhapur 1948/1983 as HH Sir Maharajah SHAHAJI II Chhatrapati, married 1926, and had issue. He died 9th May1983
    • HH Maharaja Puar KRISHNAJIRAO III PUAR (qv)
    • Maharajkumari Shaliniraje Puar, married Shrimant Rajaramsinhrao Bhonsle of Nagpur, and had issue.
      • HH Maharaja SHAHU II Chhatrapati Rao of Kolhapur.

  8. HH Maharaja Puar KRISHNAJIRAO III PUAR 1948/1999, born 1932, married and had issue. He died 1999.
    • HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR (qv)

  9. HH Maharaja Puar TUKOJIRAO IV PUAR (see above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
     
  • Maj. Sardar SHANKARRAO [APPASHEB] GAMBHIRRAO PUAR, great grandson of Bhagwantrao fl.1792, Home Member of Council of State in Dewas-Snr, Premier Jagirdar of Dewas-Snr.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.116