DHAR (Princely State)

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AREA: 4,662 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 290,000R  ACCESSION: 15th June 1948
STATE: Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY: Puar Maratha  RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 140,700 (1901) REVENUE: 900,000Rs
     
PRESENT RULER: VACANT since 1989.
   
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1722. Rulers were...HH Maharaja ANANDRAO IV PUAR (1920-1989)
  1. Raja UDAJIRAO I PUAR 1722/1742 

  2. Raja ANANDRAO I PUAR 1742/1749 died 1749

  3. Raja JASWANTRAO I PUAR 1749/1761 died 1761

  4. Raja KHANDERAO PUAR 1761/1782 died 1782

  5. Raja ANANDRAO II PUAR 1782/1799

  6. Rani Mina Bai 1799/1800 (regent)

  7. Raja RAMCHANDRARAO I PUAR 1800/1808

  8. Raja RAMCHANDRARAO II PUAR 1808/1833 died 1833

  9. Raja JASWANTRAO II PUAR 1833/1857 died 1857

  10. Raja ANANDRAO III PUAR 1857/1898, born 8th April 1844, investiture was on 21st November 1864 (#1), K.C.S.I. [cr.1877], C.I.E. [cr.1883], died 1898.

  11. Lt. Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir UDAJIRAO II PUAR Bahadur 1898/1926, Maharaja [cr.1918], K.C.S.I. [cr.1911], K.C.V.O., K.B.E., born 1886, married and had issue, 7 daughters. He died 30th July 1926.
    • Maharajkumari Vijaya Raje Puar, born 16th September 1919, Member of the Rajya Sabha 1952/1957, married Lt. Dr. Maharajkumar Basant Narain Singh of Ramgarh. (Raj Bungalow, Post Office and District Hazaribagh, Bihar).
    • Rani Urmila Devi [Sumitraraje], born 15th October 1923, married May 1939, Chhatrapati Shri SHAHUMAHARAJ BHONSLE of Satara, and had issue. She died 5th June 1999 in Pune.

  12. HH Maharaja ANANDRAO IV PUAR 1926/1989, born 1920, married 1951 (div.), HH Maharani Mrunalini Devi of Baroda, Chancellor of Sayaji University of Baroda. He died sp 1989.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 , p.119