SANDUR (Princely State)

  
AREA: 433 km2 PRIVY PURSE: 90,000Rs  ACCESSION: 1st April 1949
STATE: Karnataka DYNASTY: Ghorpade RELIGION: Hindu
  POPULATION: 14,999 (1892)   
     
PRESENT RULER: Shrimant Maharaj Shri MURARIRAO YESHWANTRAO GHORPADE, Mamlukatmadar Senapati Raja of Sandur (1996/-)
born 1931, married Rani Vasundhara Raje Gaekwad, daughter of HH Maharaja Gaekwad Sir PRATAPSINGHRAO GAEKWAD Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur of Baroda, and his first wife, HH Maharani Shanta Devi Saheb, and has issue. 
  • Yuvaraj Shrimant Ajaysinh Raje Murairao Ghorpade
  • Rajkumar Shrimant Sujaisinh Raje Murarirao Ghorpade, born 15th March 1958 in Bangalore, married 11th November 1986, Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Tanyadevi Raje Ghorpade, born 8th March 19xx, daughter of Shrimant Khushal Dhawan of Delhi, and his wife, Shrimati Gulshan Dhawan, and has issue, one son and one daughter.
    • Rajkumari Supriya Raje Ghorpade, born 15th October 1988, educated at Queen Mary University of London, graduating in May 2010 with a degree in Economics and Finance.
    • Rajkumar Samarth Sujai Raje Ghorpade, born 1st March 1991, presently (2008) studying at Rugby School, U.K.
  • Rajkumar Shrimant Karthikeya Murarirao Ghorpade, married December 1988, Shrimati Ambika Ghorpade, and has issue, two daughters.
  • Rajkumari Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Anuradha Raje, married 1989, Shrimant Viresh Dhaibar, and has issue, two sons.
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Founded about 1700. Rulers were..... 
  • Shrimant SIDALJI GHORPADE, Jagirdar of Sandur, married and had issue. He died 1715.
    • Shrimant GOPALRAO SIDAJI GHORPADE (qv)
  • Shrimant GOPALRAO SIDAJI GHORPADE 1731/1777, married and had issue.
    • Shrimant SHIVA RAO GHORPADE II (qv)
  • Shrimant SHIVA RAO GHORPADE II 1777/1785, married and had issue. He died 1785.
    • Shrimant SIDALJI GHORPADE II (qv)
  • Shrimant SIDALJI GHORPADE II 1785/1796
  • Hindu Rao Shrimant SHIVA RAO GHORPADE II (adoptive son) 1799(1818)/1840, died 1840.
  • Hindu Rao Shrimant VENKATA RAO GHORPADE II (nephew) 1840/1861, married and had issue. He died 1861.
    • Raja Shrimant SHIVA SAMMUKHA RAO GHORPADE (qv)
    • Raja Shrimant RAMCHANDRA VITHALRAO GHORPADE (qv)
  • Raja Shrimant SHIVA SAMMUKHA RAO GHORPADE 1861/1878, Raja [cr.1876], died 1878.
  • Raja Shrimant RAMCHANDRA VITHALRAO GHORPADE Saheb 1878/1892, born 1849, succeeded 5th February 1879 (#1).
  • Raja Shrimant VENKATA RAO GHORPADE III 1892/1927, born as the minor son of Shrimant Ramchandra Vithala Rao; succeeded by adoption in 1892; died 1927.
  • Shrimant Maharaj Shri YESHWANTRAO HINDURAO [ANNASAHEB] GHORPADE, Mamlukatmadar Senapati, Raja of Sandur 1928/1996, born 15th November 1908 and succeeded 5th May 1928 by adoption from Gajendragad, married 1929, and had issue. He died October 1996.
    • Shrimant Maharaj Shri MURARIRAO YESHWANTRAO GHORPADE (qv)
    • Rajkumar Shrimant Shivarao Yeshwantrao Raje Ghorpade, born 1941.
    • Rajkumari Shri Vijayadevi Raje, born 1947, married Sardar Shri Pratapsinhji Raoji Rane of Sankli, and has issue.
    • Rajkumar Shrimant Venkatrao Yeshwantrao Raje Ghorpade, born 1951.
  • Shrimant Maharaj Shri MURARIRAO YESHWANTRAO GHORPADE (see above)

OTHER MEMBERS:
  • Rani Shrimant Gayatri Raje Ghorpade, married 1997, Raja BABAJI RAO BHONSLE Chatrapati of Tanjore, and has issue.
 
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1. "The Golden Book of India"; LETHBRIDGE, Roper, MacMillan & Co., 1893 p. 476