PHALTAN (Princely State)

AREA: 1,028 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 140,442R  ACCESSION: 8th March 1948
STATE: Bombay DYNASTY: Naik Nimbalkar RELIGION: Hindu
POPULATION: 58,085 (1892)    
     
PRESENT RULER: Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR, Raja of Phaltan since 7th October 2004.
Installed 7th October 2004, married Rani Shrimant Rekha Naik Nimbalkar and has issue.
  • Yuvaraj Aniket Ram Naik Nimbalkar
  • Sarojini Devi Naik Nimbalkar
  • Sai Naik Nimbalkar
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded in 1270's. Rulers were...
  1. Naik NIMBRAJ I NIMBALKAR 1284/1291

  2. Naik PADAKHALA JAGDEVRAO DHARPATRAO NIMBALKAR 1291/1327

  3. Naik NIMBRAJ II NIMBALKAR 1327/1349

  4. Naik VANANG BHUPAL NIMBALKAR 1349/1374

  5. Naik VANANGPAL NIMBALKAR 1390/1394

  6. Naik VANGOJI I NIMBALKAR 1394/1409

  7. Naik MALOJI I NIMBALKAR 1409/1420

  8. Naik BAJI I NIMBALKAR 1420/1445

  9. Naik POWARRAO NIMBALKAR 1445/1470

  10. Naik BAJI II NIMBALKAR 1470/1512

  11. Naik MUDHOJI II NIMBALKAR 1512/1527

  12. Naik BAJI DHARRAO NIMBALKAR 1527/1560

  13. Naik MALOJI II NIMBALKAR 1560/1570

  14. Naik VANGOJI II JAGPALRAO NIMBALKAR 1570/1630, his sister, Dipa Bai, married Raja Maloji Bhonsle, Jagirdar of Pune.

  15. Naik MUDHOJI II NIMBALKAR 1630/1644, married and had issue.
    • Naik BAJAJI I NIMBALKAR (qv)
    • Maharani Sai Bai, married Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI RAO BHONSLE I of Satara, and had issue. She died 6th June 1674.

  16. Naik BAJAJI I NIMBALKAR 1644/1676, married and had issue.
    • Mahadaji Naik Nimbalkar, married Sakhu Bai, daughter of Maharaja Chhatrapati SHIVAJI I of Satara.

  17. Naik VANGOJI NIMBALKAR III 1676/1693

  18. Naik JANOJI NIMBALKAR 1693/1748

  19. Naik MUDHOJIRAO NIMBALKAR III 1748/1765

  20. Naik SAYAJIRAO NIMBALKAR 1767/1774

  21. Naik MALOJIRAO NIMBALKAR III 1774/1777

  22. Naik JANRAO NIMBALKAR II 1777/1827

  23. Naik BAJAJIRAO NIMBALKAR II 1827/1841

  24. Raja Shrimant MUDHOJIRAO JANRAO NAIK NIMBALKAR IV 1841/1916, Deshmukh and Naik Nimbalkar of Phaltan, born 5th November 1838, succeeded 7th December 1841, installed 26th March 1860 (#1), C.S.I. [cr.1911] (#2), married and had issue. He died 1916.
    • Major HH Raja Bahadur Shrimant MALOJIRAO MUDHOJIRAO NANASAHEB NAIK NIMBALKAR IV (qv)
    • Rajkumar Venkatrao Naik Nimbalkar

  25. Major HH Raja Bahadur Shrimant MALOJIRAO MUDHOJIRAO NANASAHEB NAIK NIMBALKAR IV 1916/1978, born 11th September 1896 in Nimbhore, succeeded 17th October 1916, Raja Bahadur [cr.1946], K.C.I.E. [cr.1942], Raja [cr.1936], Major [1936],  married 18th December 1923?, HH Rani Lakshmi Devi, born 1901, daughter of Sardar Shambhusinghraje Jadhavrao of Malegaon, died 1984, and had issue. He died 14th May 1978.
    • Raja Shrimant PRATAPSINH MALOJIRAO BAPUSAHEB NAIK NIMBALKAR  (see below)
    • Rajkumar Vijaysinh alias Shivajiraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1925, married and had issue, 3 children. He died 8th November 2001.
    • Rajkumar Udaysinhraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1927
    • Rajkumar Vikramsinhraje Malojirao Naik Nimbalkar, born 1933
    • Rajkumari Sarojini Devi Akkasaheb Naik Nimbalkar, born 1920

  26. PRATAPSINH MALOJIRAO BAPUSAHEB NAIK NIMBALKAR 1978/2004, born 1923 and succeeded 1978, married and had issue. He died 6th October 2004.
    • Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR (qv)

  27. Raja Bahadur Shrimant RAMRAJE PRATAPSINH NAIK NIMBALKAR (see above)
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 417
2. "Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage", 1916 London, p.644