GWALIOR (Princely State)

(21 gun salute)

 
AREA:  68,291 km2 PRIVY PURSE:  2,500,000R  ACCESSION:  15th June 1948
STATE:  Madhya Pradesh  DYNASTY:  Scindia  RELIGION:  Hindu
     
PRESENT RULER:  HH Maharaja Scindia JYOTIRADITYA RAO SCINDIA , 11th Maharaja of Gwalior (2001/-) (Jai Vilas Palace, Gwalior-470 004, Madhya Pradesh, India)
born 1st January 1971 in Mumbai, B.A., M.B.A., educated at Doon School, Dehradun; Harvard University, Cambridge (UK) and Stanford University, California (USA), elected to the 13th Lok Sabha in 2002, Member of the Committee on Finance 2002/2004, re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in 2004, Member of the Committees on Estimates, Petitions and Finance; interests include: cricket, swimming, reading and wild life conservation, Member of the Delhi Gymkhana; the India International Centre; and the India Habitat Centre, as well as several golf clubs in India, married 12th December 1994, HH Maharani Priyadarshini Raje Scindia of Baroda and has issue.
  • Yuvaraj Mahanaryaman Scindia, born 1995.
  • Maharajkumari Ananya Raje Scindia, born April 2002.
  • PREDECESSORS and SHORT HISTORY:  Founded in 1731. Rulers were...
    1. Maharaja Scindia RANOJIRAO SCINDIA 1731/1745, died 19th July 1745.

    2. Maharaja Scindia JAYAPPARAO SCINDIA 1745/1755, died 25th July 1755.

    3. Maharaja Scindia JANKOJIRAO I SCINDIA 1755/1761, died 15th January 1761.

    4. Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO I SCINDIA 1761/1794, born 1730, died 12th February 1794 at Poona.

    5. Maharaja Scindia DAULATRAO SCINDIA 1794/1827 , born 1779/80, died 20th March 1827

    6. Maharani Scindia Baija Bai 1827/1833 (regent)

    7. Maharaja Scindia JANKOJIRAO II SCINDIA 1827/1843, died 7th February 1843.

    8. HH Maharaja Scindia JAYAJIRAO SCINDIA 1843/1886, born 1834 as Bhagirath Shinde, married and had issue. He died 20th June 1886.
      • HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO II SCINDIA (qv)
      • Shrimant Balwant Rao [Bhaiya Sahib Scindia] (natural son), born 1854 (#1), ADC to his father in 1872.
      • Shrimant Ganpat Rao [Bhaiya Saheb Scindia] (natural son, by Chandrabhaga Bai, a famous dancer in Gwalior), born 1852, was a highly talented musician, an unparalleled Dhrupada and Dhamar singer, a well-known Harmonium player and a fine composer of thumris. He composed many thumris under his nickname "Sugharapiya," and gave a new dimension to the thumri style. He was a court musician of Rampur for some time. Later, he settled in Calcutta. Several first-rate musicians of India are said to have studied under him. He died 1920 (#2).

    9. HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO II SCINDIA (1876-1925)HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO II SCINDIA 1886/1925 , born 20th October 1876, married 1stly, 1891, HH Maharani Chinkuraje, awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900 and the Order of the Crown of India in 1928, died 23rd November 1931 at Bombay, married 2ndly, 8th August 1913, HH Maharani Gajraje, daughter of the Sar Desai of Sankli, died 1943 and had issue. He died 5th June 1925 in Paris.
      • HH Maharaja Scindia Sir JIVAJIRAO SCINDIA (qv)
      • Rani Kamalaraje Scindia, 11th November 1914, married Meherban Shrimant Raja VIJAISINGHRAO BHONSLE of Akalkot.

    10. HH Maharaja Scindia Sir JIVAJIRAO SCINDIA 1925/1961, born 26th June 1916, married 21st February 1941 Maharani Vijaya Raje, born 12th October 1919, as Lekha Divyeshwari Devi, dau of Thakur Mahendra Singh of Kotla, Member of the Lok Sabha 1957/1967 and 1971/1977, Member of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha 1967/1971 and the Rajya Sabha 1978/1989; Vice-President of the Jana Sangh 1973 and the B.J.P., died 25th January 2001, and had issue. He died 1961.
      • Maharani Padma Raje Scindia, born 23rd February 1942, married 6th March 1960 HH Maharaja KIRIT BIKRAM KISHORE DEB BURMAN of Tripura. She died 26th April 1969 having had issue, two daughters.
      • Maharajkumari Usharaje Scindia, born 31st October 1943, married June 1967 Shri Pashupati Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal and has issue.
      • HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO III SCINDIA (qv)
      • HH Maharani Vasundhara Scindia, born 8th March 1953 in Bombay, B.A. (Hons.) (Economics and Political Science), educated at Sophia College, Bombay University, Mumbai. Currently the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Member of the National Executive of the BJP 1984/-, Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly 1985/89, Vice-President of Yuva Morcha B.J.P. for two years. Vice President of the BJP, Rajasthan 1987/- , Member of the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Lok Sabha. Member of the following committees... Library Committee 1990/91; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Commerce and Tourism 1990/91; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology, Environment and Tourism 1991/96; Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests 1996/97; Consultative Committees, Ministries of Power, Science and Technology and Tourism 1996/97; Joint Secretary, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party 1997/-, Union Minister of State, External Affairs 1998/99; Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries; Department of Personnel and Training; Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space 1999/2001; Union  Minister of State, Small Scale Industries; Personnel, Training, Pensions,  Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances; Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; and Department of Space (Independent Charge). In November 2003, she resigned her cabinet post to run as BJP candidate for Chief Minister of Rajasthan; she married 17th November 1972, HH Maharaj Rana HEMANT SINGH of Dholpur, and has issue.
      • Shrimant Maharajkumari Yashodhara Scindia, born 19th June 1954 in London, educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay, then the Presentation Convent, Kodaikanal, and her final 2 years at the Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya Gwalior; moved to New Orleans, USA after her marriage and was appointed board member of the Delta Festival Ballet, an Advisory Board Member of the Contemporary Art Center, and a Fellow of the New Orleans Museum of Art; she returned to India in 1994 and went into formal politics, contesting the Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Elections in 1998 and then being re-elected 5 years later, for a second term in 2003 in the State Assembly elections. She is an active member of her State Legislative Party; presently serving in the Madhya Pradesh Government as a Cabinet Minister for Tourism, Sports and Youth Welfare; she married Dr. Sidharth Bhansali, cardiologist, and has issue, 3 children.
        • Akshay Bhansali, born 1981, a producer at MTV Desi in New York
        • Abhishek Bhansali, born 1985, a student at the NYU Stern School of Business
        • Trishala Bhansali, born 1988, a student at NYU

    11. HH Maharaja Scindia MADHAVRAO III SCINDIA 1961/2001, born 10th May 1945 in Bombay, married 9th May 1966, HH Maharani Pratima Rajya Laxmi Devi [Madhavi Devi, born as Kiran Rajya Laxmi Devi of Nepal] and has issue. He died in a plane crash near Motta, 30th September 2001 and was cremated at Amma Maharaj Ki Chhatri, Gwalior on the 4th October 2001.
      • Yuvrani Chitrangada Scindia, born 14th February 1967, married 11th December 1987, Yuvraj Vikramaditya Singh of Jammu and Kashmir and has issue.
      • HH Maharaja Scindia JYOTIRADITYARAO SCINDIA (qv)

    12. HH Maharaja Scindia JYOTIRADITYARAO SCINDIA (see above)
     
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    1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 511
    2. The entry for Bhaiyya Saheb in Amal Das Sharma's "Musicians of India"