JHANSI (Princely State)

 
AREA:  ?? km2 REVENUE:  ??  ANNEXATION:  21st November 1853
STATE:  ??  DYNASTY:  Newalkar (1769) RELIGION:  Hindu
     
PRESENT HEAD OF HOUSE: 
 
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:  Rulers were....
  • Maharajadhiraj CHATTARSAL of Orchha -/1729 
  • Peshwa BAJI RAO I (Pahila Bajirao) 1729/1740, born 1698, Peshwa 1721/1740, married and had issue. He died 1740.
  • NAROSHANKER 1742/1757
  • MADHAV GOVIND KAKIRDE 1757/-
  • BABULAL KANAHAI -/1766
  • VISHWAS RAO LAXMAN 1766/1769, Subedhar of Jhansi
  • Rao RAGHUNATH RAO I 1769/1796, died 1796.
  • Rao SHIV RAO HARI BHAU 1796/1814, married and had issue. He died 1814.
    • UNKNOWN, married Rani Sukhubai and had issue. He died vp?
      • Maharajadhiraj Rao RAM CHAND RAO (qv)
    • Rao RAGHUNATH RAO II (qv)
    • Rao GANGADHAR RAO (qv)
  • Maharajadhiraj Rao RAM CHAND RAO 1814/1835, born 1806, Maharajadhiraj [cr.1832], died 1835.
  • Rao RAGHUNATH RAO II 1835/1838, married Rani Janki Bai, and had secondary issue. He died 1838.
    • Ali Bahadur Newalkar (by a concubine)
  • Rao GANGADHAR RAO 1838/1853, married May 1842, Rani Lakshmi Bai [Manikarnika or Manu Bai], born 15th June 1834 in Bithur, daughter of Moropant Balwant Rao Tambe and Bhagirathi Baishe, received traditional education and learnt horse-riding and wielding of small arms, forced to retire on a pension of 6,000Rs, she died in battle on 17th June 1858, cremated in a nearby garden where a memorial was erected after independence in her honour. He died 21st November 1853 without surviving issue and the state lapsed.
    • Son (name unknown), born in 1851, died 1851 aged three months.
  • Rao DAMODAR RAO 1853/aft 1898, adopted by Rani Lakshmi Bai, but wasn't recognised as Rao by the British authorities resulting in the Indian War of Independence [Indian Mutiny], petitioned Queen Victoria's government for recognition which wasn't given, born 1848 as Anand Rao Newalkar, married and had issue. He died after 1898.
    • Laxman Rao Jhansiwale, married and had issue.
      • Krishnarao Jhansiwale, married and had issue.
        • Arunrao Jhansiwale
      • Chandrakantrao Jhansiwale, married and had issue.
        • Pramod Jhansiwale, presently working as a dental technician in the Mandsore civil hospital.
        • Akshay Jhansiwale
        • Atul Jhansiwale, presently working for the Indore Telephone Department.
OTHER MEMBERS:
  • UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
    • Rao RAGHUNATH RAO I (see above)
    • Rao SHIV RAO HARI BHAU (see above)
    • UNKNOWN, married and had issue. This line is conjectural.
      • UNKNOWN, married and had issue.
        • Vasudeo Newalkar, married and had issue.
          • Anand Rao Newalkar [Rao DAMODAR RAO] (see above)

The help of Abhijit Malwade is gratefully acknowledged, September 2006.

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