PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: A
Second
Class state founded about 1400. The rulers claim descent from the Ranas
of Chittor about 1300. The Raja is first in order of precedence within
the agency. Rulers were...
- Rana BHAIRAVJI [Bosaji], granted the Jagir of Mudhol,
comprising 84
villages
on the 25th, Rabilaval, 800H, with this ruler the
family
came to use Bhosale or Bhonsle as a family name, married and had issue.
He died after 800H (c1394).
- Rana DEVRAJ SINGH (qv)
- Shri Karan Singh, died 815H
- Rana DEVRAJ SINGH c1394/c1420, married and had issue. He
died 825H
- Rana UGRASEN (qv)
- Shri Pratap Singh, died after 1460.
- Rana UGRASEN c1420/1453, married and had issue. He died
1453.
- Rana KARAN SINGH (qv)
- Shri Shubha Krishna, received a jagir in Mirat province,
his
descendants
retained Bhonsle as their family name and were ancestors of the rulers
of Kolhapur, Nagpur, Sattara and Tanjore.
- Rana KARAN SINGH 1453/1469, married and had issue.
- Raja BHIM SINGH 1469/- , received the title of Raja
Ghorpade
Bahadur,
henceforth his successors used Raja as their title, and Ghorpade as
their
family name, married and had issue.
- Raja KHELOJI GHORPADE (qv)
- Raja KHELOJI GHORPADE -/1514, married and had issue.
- Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I (qv)
- Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I 1514/-, married and had issue.
- Raja AKHAISINGH GHORPADE (qv)
- Raja AKHAISINGH GHORPADE -/-, married and had issue.
- Raja KARANSINGH GHORPADE (qv)
- Shri Bhimsingh Ghorpade, died c1576.
- Raja KARANSINGH GHORPADE -/1565, married and had issue. He
died 1565.
- Raja CHOLARAJ GHORPADE (qv)
- Raja CHOLARAJ GHORPADE 1565/1578, received a mansab
of
7000
foot, as well as 26 villages in Vijayanagar provinces and 40 more to
the
south of Shira, he married and had issue. He died 1578.
- Raja PIRAJI GHORPADE (qv)
- Shri Valabhasinh Cholaraj Ghorpade, ancestor of the Royal
Families of
Kapshi
and Gajendragad.
- Shri Kanoji Cholaraj Ghorpade, ancestor of the Rajas of
Sandur.
- Raja PIRAJI GHORPADE -/-, married and had issue.
- Raja PRATAPRAO GHORPADE (qv)
- Raja PRATAPRAO GHORPADE [Nahuji] -/1645, died 1645.
- Raja BAJIRAJE GHORPADE 1645/c1666, married and had issue,
(4 wives and
6 sons were killed c1666). He was killed c1666.
- Shrimant Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I (qv)
- Shri Shankroji Ghorpade [Jaisingh], died 1666/1667 near
Tasgaon.
- Shrimant Raja MALOJI GHORPADE I c1666/1700, during his
rule, the jagir
became an independent state in 1670, married and had issue. He died
1700.
- Shrimant Raja AKHAYAJIRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE (qv)
- Shrimant Raja AKHAYAJIRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE 1700/1734,
Governor
of Bijapur -/1734, married and had issue. He died 1734.
- Shrimant Raja PIRAJIRAO AKHAYAJIRAO GHORPADE (qv)
- Shri Bajirao Akhayajirao Ghorpade
- Shrimant Raja PIRAJIRAO AKHAYAJIRAO GHORPADE 1734/-,
married and had
issue.
He died c1738.
- Shrimant Raja MALOJIRAO PIRAJIRAO GHORPADE III (qv)
- Shrimant Sahib Shankrojirao Pirajirao Ghorpade, received
lands in
Bilgi,
Bidri and Tikota.
- Shrimant Raja MALOJIRAO PIRAJIRAO GHORPADE III -/1805,
Governor of
Bijapur
1738/-, married (a), a Rajput lady, married (b), another Rajput lady,
married (c), a lady
from Pole, married (d), a lady from Kathiawar, married (e), a Parmar
lady, and married (f), a
Solanki
lady, and had issue. He died 1805.
- Shrimant Sahib Govindrao Raje Malojirao Ghorpade (by 1st
wife), married
and had issue. He died c1770.
- Shrimant Raja NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO GHORPADE (qv)
- Shrimant Sahib Maharrao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 1st wife)
- Shrimant Sahib Bajirao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 2nd wife)
- Shrimant Sahib Ranojirao Malojirao Ghorpade (by 3rd
wife), married and
had issue. He died 1779.
- Shrimant Sahib Nahirjirao Ranojirao Ghorpade, granted
the Jagir of
Padsalgi.
- Shrimant Raja NARAYANRAO GOVINDRAO GHORPADE 1805/1815,
married 1stly, a
Solanki Rani (Senior Queen), married 2ndly, a Parmar Rani (Junior
Queen), and
had
issue. He died 1815.
- Shrimant Raja VYANKATRAO NARAYANRAO GHORPADE I (by 1st
wife) (qv)
- Shrimant Sahib Lakshmanrao Ghorpade (by 1st wife)
- Shrimant Sahib Govindrao Ghorpade (by 2nd wife), eldest
son, though by
the Junior Queen, contested the succession unsuccessfully, died 1818 at
the Battle of Ashtee.
- Shrimant Raja VYANKATRAO NARAYANRAO GHORPADE I 1815/1854,
married and had issue. He died 1854.
- Shrimant Raja BALWANTRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE (qv)
- Shrimant Raja BALWANTRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE 1854/1862,
married and had issue. He died 1862.
- HH Shrimant Raja Meherban VYANKATRAO BALWANTRAO RAJE
GHORPADE [BALA SAHEB] (qv)
- HH Shrimant Raja Meherban VYANKATRAO BALWANTRAO RAJE
GHORPADE II [BALA
SAHEB] 1862/1900, born 9th April 1861, succeeded 27th March 1862 (#1),
educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot; established a regular system of
government
in the State, married and had issue. He died 1900.
- HH Shrimant Raja Meherban Sir MALOJIRAO VYANKATRAO
GHORPADE IV [NANA SAHEB] (qv)
-
![Shrimant Raja Sir Meherban MALOJIRAO VENKATRAO GHORPADE [NANASAHEB]](mudol_maloji.jpg) HH
Shrimant Raja Meherban Sir MALOJIRAO VYANKATRAO GHORPADE IV [NANA
SAHEB] 1900/1937 (abdicated), born 1884, K.C.I.E. [cr.1920], Hon. 2nd
Lieutenant
Indian Army, served with the British Forces in Egypt 1914/1918, married
1stly, sister of Col. HH Maharaja Shri Sir UDAJIRAO II PUAR Bahadur of Dhar,
2ndly daughter of the Jadeja Giras family of Kathiawar, and had issue,
2 sons and 1 daughter.
- HH Shrimant Raja BHAIRAVSINHRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE II (qv)
- HH Shrimant Raja BHAIRAVSINHRAO MALOJIRAO GHORPADE II
1937/1984, born
15th
October 1929 and succeeded 9th November 1937 as the 23rd Raja of
Mudhol,
married 1stly, Rani Pramila Raje of Rajkot, ?married 2ndly, Rani Indira
Raje, and had issue. He died 1984 in a car accident.
- Rajkumari Menaka Raje Bhonsle
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